Team hunting for spark welcomes back Tatis after 564 days away from the game for injury, PED suspension
was stacked atop rehab for wrist surgery, covered 564 days. They built the Empire State Building in 164 fewer.Tatis was absent so long that he returned to a find a pitch clock and bloated bases. The defensive shift had gone the way of the Dodo. The position he played, shortstop, belonged to someone else after the signing of Xander Bogaerts.“There are very few players that probably get this kind of notoriety their first game of the season and rightly so,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said.
Decision-making — from the offseason motorcycle accident that fractured his wrist, to a PED stain that he’ll carry throughout his career — is weighted against an unreal skill set and potential for sustained and singular greatness. Homegrown Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove, one of Tatis’ toughest critics when the suspension stung most, said the burden of his teammate’s expectations outsizes others.
In his third at-bat Thursday, he flew out to right field. In his fourth, he struck out on four pitches. Being mortal now and again will be OK … to some.
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