CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The 2016 season aged Yan Gomes. He's sure of it every time he looks in the mirror.
"That's probably why I've got white hair in my beard now," said Cleveland's catcher.
There was plenty of pain. Gomes suffered a separated shoulder on a tumble at first base at Target Field in Minnesota last summer. During his final rehab start in September, an errant pitch broke his wrist.
"I wasn't healthy," Gomes said. "There wasn't a day something wasn't hurting."
There was plenty of tinkering. Even before the injury bug pestered him, Gomes struggled to find any sort of rhythm at the plate.