[bigboydan]

Reed breaks wrist


Seattle Mariners starting center fielder Jeremy Reed has a broken bone in his right wrist and could miss six weeks.

General manager Bill Bavasi announced Reed's injury on Friday morning at the team's spring training headquarters in Peoria, Ariz. Bavasi said Reed fractured a small bone inside his wrist when he ran into the padded center-field fence at Peoria Sports Complex on Thursday night. Reed was pursuing a fifth-inning fly ball hit by Arizona catcher Johnny Estrada.

Reed remained in the game until the eighth inning, when he yielded for a pinch runner. He said he felt discomfort throughout the last half of the game, but only learned the extent of the injury afterward.

Reed was on a Friday morning flight to Seattle to see Dr. Carleton Keck, a hand specialist and team consultant. After repeatedly emphasizing the team will have a better assessment of Reed's prognosis after Keck sees the player, Bavasi said Reed probably will miss about six weeks.

Until then, utility man Willie Bloomquist or versatile Mike Morse could play for him.

Reed batted .254 in 141 games as the youngest player on Seattle's opening day roster last season. The 24-year-old was expected to begin this season back in center field and perhaps bat second behind All-Star Ichiro Suzuki. Reed and Morse came to the Mariners in a trade for pitcher Freddy Garcia on June 27, 2004.

Reed was hitting .316 (12-for-38) with three doubles, a triple and one home run in 13 spring games

[Willie Bee]

Could open up PT for newly acquired Joe Borchard. Or the M's could somehow juggle the outfield a bit and let Borchard, Matt Lawton and Shin-Soo Choo share Reed's ABs.

[Illusion]

Reed is gonna be a special player one of these days. Borchard (if he starts) better use this time wisely to prove himself. I think this will be his only chance.

[onlooker]

It seems that every year after the Mariners last 90+ season they have been getting nothing but bad breaks (no pun intended) year after year.

[Illusion]

It seems that every year after the Mariners last 90+ season they have been getting nothing but bad breaks (no pun intended) year after year.

Good thing it happened now. He should be back at the biginning of May.