Dan Connolly

Tillman to have cortisone shot in shoulder

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Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman will receive a cortisone shot in his right shoulder – perhaps as early as today – manager Buck Showalter said Wednesday morning.

Tillman has not pitched in a game this spring and had his scheduled bullpen session shut down before it began Sunday because of lingering discomfort. He was supposed to pitch in his first spring game Friday, but that obviously won’t happen.

Tillman will be re-evaluated after the cortisone takes effect.

“Probably two or three days down and then see where we are with it,” Showalter said.

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The other option was for Tillman, 28, to continue to rest, but Showalter said it was a decision made by Tillman, in concert with medical personnel, to have the shot. The hope is it will accelerate his return

Due to concern with what excessive cortisone can do to joints, Tillman will not be able undergo another cortisone shot for at least six months.

He had a platelet-rich plasma injection in December and was hoping that would allow him to be ready for spring training and Opening Day.

Showalter said there is no exact timetable for Tillman’s pending return, besides that he will not be ready for Opening Day. The club is still optimistic it can have him at some point in April – although he would have to get back on the mound soon to make that happen.

Tillman is a free agent at the end of this year.

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Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly has spent more than two decades as a print journalist in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Baltimore native and Calvert Hall graduate first covered the Orioles as a beat writer for the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record in 2001 before becoming The Baltimore Sun’s national baseball writer/Orioles reporter in 2005. He has won multiple state and national writing awards, including several from the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2013 he was named Maryland Co-Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. And in 2015, he authored his first book, "100 Things Orioles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." He lives in York, with his wife, Karen, and three children, Alex, Annie, and Grace.

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  • This does not appear to bode well for Tillman's season. If and when he makes it back out there, there may be a good bit of rust. Should the O's be looking out there for another reliable arm?

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