Michael Conforto‘s agent Scott Boras recently spoke with Kevin Kernan of the New York Post and said the outfielder is making excellent progress from shoulder surgery.
Conforto, 24, went down on Aug. 24 with a dislocated shoulder and torn posterior capsule in his shoulder after a swing which effectively ended his season.
The first time all-star launched 27 homers and drove in 68 runs while hitting to a .279/.384/.555 clip in 109 games in 2017.
He elected to have surgery on Sept. 2 and spoke to reporters at Citi Field late last month, where he said he can’t commit to being ready for opening day.
“The general outline is six months, that’s what both doctors said,” Conforto said on Sept. 23. “When I see the doctor in a couple weeks, we’ll see where I’m at [and] where my range of motion is.”
The six months Conforto is referring to presumably means before he can resume baseball activity, much less playing everyday. The outfielder said that he doesn’t want to put a timeline on it yet because it could turn out to be more or less time than projected.
“There was probably some damage in their from football in high school or just from swinging in general,” Conforto said. “The swing itself was just a freak thing. That was frustrating because I felt like I had a lot more to give this year.”
While his status for the beginning of the season is still very much up in the air, hopefully he will come back from this injury strong and pick up right where he left off.
Conforto will enter the 2018 season at 25 years old with a career 126 wRC+ and two defensive runs saved in 274 major league games to this point.
The Sporting News recently ranked Conforto and teammate Noah Syndergaard as two of the top 50 best young players in baseball right now.
