OAKLAND — An MRI showed no structural damage in the left shoulder of A’s reliever Sean Doolittle, who said Friday he was encouraged about an eventual return to the roster.
Doolittle went on the 10-day disabled list Wednesday and will be out much longer after missing 59 games a year ago with a shoulder issue.
This injury, however, is different than the last one.
“One of the silver linings is it’s different than anything I’ve dealt with before, both in the way it feels and what the MRI showed,” Doolittle said before the A’s faced the Detroit Tigers at the Coliseum.