Injury updates remind us that Spring Training is also a grind

Robert Edwards-Imagn Images As we continue to stoke the fires of hope, let’s keep in mind that there are a few pieces of fuel the San Francisco Giants will need once the season begins to really get the locomotive up to speed (did I execute that metaphor properly? Hmm). This morning, the team provided some injury updates.

The bad news

Jake Lamb will be shutdown until Tuesday due to a “left quad strain.”

Oslevis Basabe “will not throw for the next 2-4 days” because of a “right shoulder strain.”

Tom Murphy “started light rehab activities” as he recovers from “mid-back disc herniation.” Now, that phrasing certainly sounds positive, but we’d already heard from manager Bob Melvin that there’s a…