Sonny Gray’s comeback season is off to an ominous start. The Oakland A’s star pitcher has a strained lat and will be shut down for three weeks and miss Opening Day, via Jane Lee MLB.com and Susan Slusser of the S.F. Chronicle, who also notes that Sonny isn’t likely to return to the mound until late April. Read Slusser’s full writeup here.
Sonny made two starts in the Cactus League this spring, and they were like night and day. He threw two scoreless innings against the Padres on March 1, recording four strikeouts and allowing only one hit.