Pittsburgh Pirates Director of Sports Medicine Todd Tomczyk met with the local media prior to Wednesday’s afternoon game against the Colorado Rockies for some injury updates. The headline was that first baseman Ji-Man Choi is expected to miss extended time.
Choi went on the 10-day Injured List on Saturday with an ankle injury that turned out to be an Achilles strain. The Pirates said since then that he was going to miss more than the minimum time, but now we are hearing that he is expected to miss eight weeks.
Choi was hitting .