PT TODAY: Gray injury opens A's rotation spot

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Athletics | Sonny Gray to miss Opening Night
Oakland Athletics SP Sonny Gray (lat) has been shut down for the next three weeks due to a "moderate lat strain". The timetable will take him out of the running to make Oakland’s Opening Night start on April 3, according to manager Bob Melvin.  Source: San Jose Mercury News - Jimmy Durkin
 
BHQ take: Gray's current prognosis puts him back late in April. In the meantime, OAK's fifth starter competition most likely has morphed into three pitchers for three spots, as Jharel Cotton, Andrew Triggs, and Jesse Hahn appear to have a leg up on other candidates (including...

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