More injuries

This time, it’s Omar Infante, who has tendinitis in his shoulder. Much like last year, he was feeling it for a while but didn’t tell anyone. Jim Leyland noticed he was wincing in pain when he threw and told him to see the trainers. MRI results were OK, so it’s not expected to be a major injury. Still, he had something similar last year that affected his throwing for a while, so this should be a concern.

Meanwhile, Craig Monroe now has a right quad injury he suffered while working out to get back from his oblique injury. Both he and Dmitri Young, who also has a strained quad, are supposed to stay off baseball activities for the next three days.

All these absences come at a tough time with the Tigers embarking on back-to-back long trips. Five or six players, all youngsters, will have to go to both Vero Beach on Friday and Fort Myers on Saturday, both of them long bus rides. The rest will play one day and have the other one completely off, meaning don’t report to the ballpark. They’re only spring training games, but it has Leyland worried that his young players are playing too much.