David Aardsma, Mariners Closer, Won't Rush Return From Hip Surgery

Filed under: Mariners, Spring Training

PEORIA, Ariz. -- The Seattle pitchers will throw in earnest Monday for the first time since last season as the Mariners are one of the nine Major League teams that will use Valentine's Day as a springboard for spring training 2011.

David Aardsma, the team's closer the last two years, will be watching from the sidelines, unable to walk properly, much less throw.

"That's going to be tough, watching everybody else,'' Aardsma said Sunday morning in the Mariners' camp. "There's nothing I'd like more than to be able to be with them.''

Aardsma is coming off hip surgery and is using crutches to get around as he works to recover from the Jan. 3 surgery that has his status for the 2011 season up in the air.

 

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