The outfielder has been sidelined since being hit in the head by a pitch on July 28, after which he was placed on the seven-day concussion injured list on Aug. 1. <\/p>\n
Springer was then sent down to triple-A Buffalo for what was supposed to be a brief rehab stint, as he was originally expected to return to action with the Bisons on either Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n
That hasn’t been the case, however, as the 35-year-old has yet to join Buffalo’s starting lineup, including Sunday’s contest against the Worcester Red Sox.<\/p>\n
“He’s feeling better every day,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said during an appearance on\u00a0Blair and Barker\u00a0on Friday. “He’s hitting, running, today he’s taking fly balls off a bat in the outfield. As soon as he can get clearance from the MLB, (he’ll) probably play in a game, see how he feels and go from there.”<\/p>\n
In 101 games, Springer is slashing .291\/.383\/.506 with 57 RBIs and is tied for a team-high with 18 home runs.<\/p>\n
While it appeared the Blue Jays were managing fine without the four-time all-star \u2014 sweeping the Colorado Rockies to start the week, while setting records for runs and hits in a three-game series \u2014 the AL-leading squad would gladly welcome back Springer’s production after mustering just two runs in two games against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays now look to avoid a sweep at the hands of the NL West leaders on Sunday before heading back to Toronto to host the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outfielder has been sidelined since being hit in the head by a pitch on July 28, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-59949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}