STrib: Twins' Miguel Sano ready to head to Fort Myers
Miguel Sano lashed out at a series of batting practice pitches Saturday, proving that his injured right foot hasn’t affected his ability to crush 65-mile-per-hour fastballs. As a reward, Sano has won a free trip to Florida.
His return ticket? Probably still a month off.
“The days are hot, and they only play in the hot weather,” the Twins’ erstwhile third baseman, who missed all of spring training while a deep cut just above his right heel healed, said of his upcoming trip to Fort Myers. “I’ll go there for a while. … All I want is to come back and play the game here.”
By the middle of the week, Chief Baseball Officer Derek Falvey said, Sano will report to the Twins’ Florida headquarters to begin a simulated, if shortened, spring training — first working on regaining the conditioning that two idle months has cost him, and after 10 days of that, perhaps playing for the Class A Miracle.
“He’ll tell you he’s good to go, ready to play tomorrow, which is good. That’s where his mind-set is,” Falvey said. “Our hope would be that we’re maybe looking at early May for that. I said a while back that we’re maybe targeting an early May return to the big leagues — it’s more than likely an early May return to playing baseball. How much time it takes from that point to be big-league ready, it’s going to be dependent on how that goes.”
Sano will probably play at Class AAA Rochester or Class AA Pensacola before returning to the Twins as well, Falvey said.
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