Morrow scratched from Astros start

Jays' righthander Brandon Morrow was scratched from Friday's start vs. the Astros due to soreness in his right shoulder. Morrow was warming up in the Jays' bullpen minutes before the game when he shut it down for the day as a precautionary measure. Morrow is expected to be in the Jays' opening rotation after being obtained from the Mariners for reliever Brandon League.

Morrow had struggled this spring in two starts, with a 7.20 ERA allowing six hits and three walks in five innings, with seven strikeouts. He was replaced as starter by non-roster pitcher Steven Register who was signed as a free agent in January.

“It bothered me a little bit on Wednesday, the day after my bullpen day,” Morrow said. “It felt fin (Thursday) playing catch. When I tried to turn it up today it was just bugging me. I shut it down early, just precautionary to try not to turn this into a – if I went out there and threw my four innings it might turn into a wek-and-a-half two week thing instead of a two or three day thing.”

“It's been a spring training thing in the past and I thnk the reason it may have popped up at the beginning of the year last year was because I didn't have much spring training, getting the flu. I only threw four innings last spring training. It's kind of that getting iver the hill thing.

Morrow will receive treatment in the next several days and be re-evaluated for his next start.

Comments

[Nitin]

Hes having tommy john in 4 weeks. Welcome to the Blue Jays.

[Sivart]

Nitin you make it sound like the jays are the reason this guy is a band-aid, but maybe if you paid attention to baseball you would know this guy has been hurt a lot prior to ever joining the jays. If you expanded your horizons a little you would know that all over the league young pitchers are getting hurt, don't act like it is just the jays pitchers.