Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano will likely miss the

FORT MYERS Mike Piazza Jersey , Fla. (AP) — first month of the regular season, following another procedure to repair a severe cut above the heel on his right foot.Sano was sent to a plastic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he underwent an operation called a debridement that removes damaged tissue or foreign objects from a wound, Twins chief baseball officer Derek Falvey said Tuesday.The gash Sano suffered Jan. 26 in his native Dominican Republic when he slipped on some metal stairs on a stage during his team’s winter league championship celebration was not healing as expected, so the Twins sought a more aggressive treatment for their 25-year-old slugger whose major league career has been marked more by nagging injuries than home runs.Falvey said Sano could resume baseball activity in about three weeks, with the goal of starting a minor league rehabilitation assignment in mid-April and joining the Twins in May.Fortunately for the Twins, they’ve got one of the most versatile players in the game to fill in after signing former Houston Astros handyman Marwin Gonzalez to a two-year http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-tim-tebow-jersey , $21 million contract last month . The plan was to essentially make Gonzalez an everyday multi-positional player, but for now he’ll probably take the majority of the turns at third base.For Twins, though, the news was another setback after a career-worst 2018 season for Sano during which he batted .199 with a .679 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in 71 games while spending months in the minor leagues for reconditioning.Though he came with stitches behind his Achilles tendon, Sano reported to camp noticeably slimmer after a more rigorous winter workout routine with designs on putting together the complete season the Twins have been waiting for since Sano made the All-Star game in 2017. Fister was with the club for some of their best seasons."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Detroit Tigers AnalysisDetroit Tigers Prospect NotebookDetroit Tigers Game ThreadsDetroit Tigers NewsDetroit Tigers PodcastsFormer Tigers starter Doug Fister is retiringNew,29commentsFister was with the club for some of their best seasons.ESTShareTweetShareShareFormer Tigers starter Doug Fister is retiringThere was a time when Doug Fister was a part of the best pitching rotation in baseball, and this week http://www.metsfanproshop.com/authentic-tim-tebow-jersey , just as pitchers and catchers report to their camps, he has announced that he is retiring from the game.During the 2012 and 2013 Detroit Tigers seasons, Fister did some of the best work of his career. In his three-season total with the team he had a 3.29 ERA, 3.20 FIP, and 1.191 WHIP. He went to the World Series in 2012. Also in 2012 with the Tigers he set an American League record, striking out nine batters in a row (September 27 against the Royals). Possibly one of the most memorable moments of Fister’s tenure with the Tigers came during the second game of the 2012 World Series when he took a Gregor Blanco line drive right to the head. Instead of being pulled after such a scary moment, he recalls informing Kevin Rand Neil Walker Jersey , “There are two runners on, two out, it’s Game 2. And I’m going to get the third out.”He stayed on until the sixth inning.After leaving the Tigers he went on to do great work with the Washington Nationals in 2014 then bounced around different teams, battling injury. He played in 12 games for the Texas Rangers last season with a 4.50 ERA, 5.25 FIP, and 1.394 WHIP. According to MLB.com’s Jon Morosi and Fister’s agent Page Odle, the decision to retire was not due to lack of options — he had received offers to play in the majors in 2019 — but rather that the 35-year-old was ready to focus his attention on his family instead of baseball.Odle explained Adrian Gonzalez Jersey , “The main reason is that he wants to start a new chapter in his life. This is 100 percent family driven. He’s really excited about being a dad and husband. He’s very much a family-oriented guy.”Fister spent 10 seasons playing major league ball, and was an integral part of some of the best years of Tigers baseball in recent memory.