OAKLAND — A’s ace pitcher Sonny Gray threw his whole repertoire during a 25-pitch bullpen session on Tuesday, his first time on the mound since he was shut down nearly a month ago with a lat injury.
“He felt great,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “(He threw) 100 percent for what you can do throwing in the bullpen. There’s a little more intensity throwing to hitters and then in games, so there’s an incremental portion to that. But if anybody can go as close to 100 percent in the bullpen, it’s him.”
Gray was injured in a spring training start on March 7 and the A’s announced two days later that he would be shut down for at least three weeks.