Orioles star Trey Mancini, who had a malignant tumor in his colon surgically removed last month toward the end of baseball’s abbreviated spring training, wrote in a piece on The Players Tribune that he began chemotherapy for Stage III colon cancer on April 13 at a Baltimore hospital.
“My treatment will take six months — every two weeks for six months,” he wrote. “If baseball returns in 2020, it will probably be without me.
The article, posted Tuesday morning, outlined Mancini’s diagnosis and treatment from a routine spring training physical and the colonoscopy that revealed the tumor down in Florida to his subsequent return to Baltimore for surgery and to begin chemotherapy.