PHOENIX — After spending most of spring training looking like he was on the fast track, it appears A.J. Puk has hit the breaks.
The A’s shut down the pitching phenom with biceps soreness, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The paper, citing an anonymous source, reported Wednesday that the injury is not believed to be serious and quoted the source as saying that Puk should resume throwing “sometime fairly soon.”
Still, anything involving the 6-foot-7, 220-pound left-hander is enough to sound an alarm.
Manager Bob Melvin declined to comment on Puk on Wednesday after a 3-3 with the Milwaukee Brewers in Maryvale.