Los Angeles Dodgers 2019 Spring Training is officially underway as pitchers and catchers reported to Camelback Ranch a week ago, and now position players officially arrived for the first time on Monday morning to begin preparing for Saturday’s Cactus League opener.
Many of the organization’s position players reported at the same time that pitchers and catchers did to get in extra work, but one who was noticeably missing was outfielder Andrew Toles.
Toles continued to be absent from camp when the team showed up on Monday, and it appears there is a good reason for it. According to Bill Plunkett of the Southern California News Group, Toles is not reporting to Spring Training at the moment due to a personal matter and Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman noted is currently unknown when he will arrive:
Toles was the team’s starting left fielder the second half of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 before suffering a torn ACL that cost him the rest of that season.