Colorado Rockies beat reporter Thomas Harding broke some unfortunate news out of Salt River Fields at Talking Stick this Tuesday: outfielder Randal Grichuk would miss the start of the season. Grichuk, who played 140 games for the Rockies last season, underwent surgery to repair a bilateral sports hernia. Harding suggests a timetable for recovery of six weeks if all goes according to plan.
“It was one of those things that was not going to get better, and it was a matter of when was it going to get worse,” Grichuk told Harding on Tuesday.