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Joe Musgrove Experienced Right Shoulder Discomfort on Sunday

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BRADENTON, Fla. – The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced that right-handed pitcher Joe Musgrove experienced right shoulder discomfort on Sunday. Musgrove was scheduled to throw a live batting practice session, but missed that as a result of the discomfort.

No updates to his status today, other than the Pirates saying he will be treated and evaluated. So it’s unknown if this is precautionary due to the stage of Spring Training that we’re in, or whether it’s a big issue. We should learn more in the coming days, especially during the team injury update on Wednesday. It will also be telling how Musgrove handles his activities in coming days. He’s next scheduled to throw tomorrow.

The Pirates have been looking at Musgrove as a starter, and have him penciled in as the final man for the Opening Day rotation. If his injury does end up being serious enough to miss the start of the season, expect one of Tyler Glasnow or Steven Brault to take his place in the rotation.

UPDATE 8:13 AM: I’m working on a backlog of articles this morning, so I missed talking to Musgrove in the locker room. Via Adam Berry, Musgrove said that it was mostly precautionary.

That’s good news. We’ll see if he can get back on the mound tomorrow or sometime this week.

Tim Williams
Tim Williams
Tim is the owner, producer, editor, and lead writer of PiratesProspects.com. He has been running Pirates Prospects since 2009, becoming the first new media reporter and outlet covering the Pirates at the MLB level in 2011 and 2012. His work can also be found in Baseball America, where he has been a contributor since 2014 and the Pirates' correspondent since 2019.

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