John Jaso continues to rehab from the wrist injury he suffered on opening day when his hand jammed into the second base bag on a slide.
Jaso was a guest on “This Week in Rays Baseball” with Neil Solondz and discussed his slow recovery which still has not progressed to the point of hitting baseballs but does include taking swings with the “The Speed Hitter,” a training device endorsed by Rays hitting coach Derek Shelton.
The players call the device a “Shelty Stick”:
“As far as the swinging part of the rehab I started off with kind of a lighter object, just like a wooden dowel, kind of like a broom handle and I was swinging that.