ESPN’s Marly Rivera reports that Ronald Acuna’s trainers in Venezuela say that Ronald is hopeful for a May return to play, pending his progress this spring.
While this isn’t quite the Opening Day return that many fans had hoped for, this would still enable the outfielder to play most of the 2022 season.
Ronald was on MVP pace in 2021 and very likely would have won the award had he not torn his ACL in a fateful July game against the Miami Marlins. Ronald posted a .283/.394/.596 slash line with a 157 wRC+, all while UNDERperforming his xwOBA by a significant margin, good for 4.