Tommy Edman’s surgically repaired wrist just isn’t cooperating.
Cardinals manager Oli Marmol told reporters in Jupiter Thursday that the team has shut Edman down from baseball activities due to ongoing inflammation in his right wrist. Marmol reportedly added that this latest setback confirms Edman will not be cleared for the active roster by Opening Day and will begin the regular season on the injured list.
After dealing with right wrist inflammation during the 2023 season—he spent time on the IL with the ailment in July and was limited by the injury throughout the year—Edman had arthroscopic surgery on the wrist in October, hoping to definitively put the wrist troubles in the rearview mirror.
When it first publicly revealed the October surgery in January, the club originally stated its hope that Edman would be fully recovered by the start of spring training. At Winter Warm-Up a couple of weeks later, the narrative had shifted to acknowledge that Edman might enter camp in a limited fashion, but nobody seemed overly concerned that his recovery would linger into the regular season.
After multiple setbacks this spring, though, that’s exactly what is going to happen.