St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker shall be sidelined no less than every week after struggling a minor knee damage – the results of his stepping on a sprinkler head whereas operating down a fly ball throughout Tuesday’s spring coaching sport in opposition to the Washington Nationals. 

Here is a take a look at the play, which happened on the Nationals’ spring coaching facility: 

A subsequent MRI confirmed no structural injury to his left knee however did present irritation of the knee. “It’s what it’s,” Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol informed reporters on Wednesday. “We’ll let it relax for every week after which we’ll ramp that child again up, and we’ll nonetheless have time to see him in loads of [spring training] video games.”

The workforce expects Walker to have the ability to return to motion in time to play a number of spring coaching video games earlier than Opening Day,” Marmol mentioned. On one other degree, although, the misplaced time might show important, as Walker this spring is working to ingrain offseason adjustments to his swing. 

The 22-year-old Walker is predicted to be the Cardinals’ beginning proper fielder within the upcoming season. Throughout elements of two MLB seasons, he is batted .255/.317/.423 with 21 dwelling runs in 168 video games. Walker is not far faraway from being one of many prime prospects in all of baseball, and his improvement as a hitter is an organizational precedence in St. Louis because the membership pivots to a longer-term focus and an emphasis on creating younger in-house abilities.