Spring Training - A's 3b Sizemore Out For Season With Knee Tear

Athletics third baseman Scott Sizemore will forget your entire 2012 time after shredding your ligament with his quit knee very last weekend during Oakland's first full-squad workout.

Sizemore was damaged Saturday during Oakland's originate exercising get away throughout Phoenix. He had a great MRI exam and the A's proclaimed Monday this they had torn his anterior cruciate ligament.

"Broken cardiovascular right here. Safe to say I've cried more above hockey as compared to something around my life," tweeted Sizemore's wife, Brooke.

The 27-year-old Sizemore was procured by way of Oakland final May from a deal by using Detroit. He hit .249 having eleven home runs along with fifty-two RBIs around 93 game titles considering the A's.

"I look poorly for Scott," A's boss Bob Melvin said. "He's proved helpful impossible plus seemed to be ready for your breakout time of year this year. We were relying on him or her to produce a few much-needed electrical power on the suitable facet with the plate. Now his overall concentration needs to be with a productive surgery along with rehabilitation hence he can go back tougher than ever."

Because regarding swelling, Sizemore are going to be re-evaluated in not one but two many days to discover whenever a new particular date pertaining to medical procedures may be set.

The personal injury followed almost per month leading to a A's open the major little league season. They have fun with Seattle on March 28 inside Tokyo to get started on a two-game series.

Sizemore had been anticipated to be inside the opening day lineup.

"In his absence, all of us sense we certainly have many practical possibilities throughout Adam Rosales, Eric Sogard along with Josh Donaldson. They can almost all bring something for the position," Melvin said.

Donaldson in short , enjoyed for any A's in 2010. Originally some sort of first-round draw up pick and choose associated with the actual Chicago Cubs, Donaldson had been bought and sold towards A's from a deal to get pitcher Rich Harden.