Jon Gray progressing "better than expected"

DENVER – Colorado Rockies starting pitchers, and ace Jon Gray, has been out the past couple of week with a broken bone in his foot but went in for a CT scan on Monday and the tests came back negative. That’s the good result.

“[The doctor] said it’s in the right place,” Gray told reporters this afternoon. “The bone’s not spreading apart, the ligament is short and strong, it’s good to go. Just have to be easy with it, strengthening it at the same time. Good news today, really good news. Everything’s looking great, better than expected. It’s healing really well. As soon as we figure out how to strengthen it back up, and that’s the plan, we’re going to attack that as fast as we can.”

In the meantime, Gray is going to be focusing on getting himself back into shape so that once the foot is fully healed, his golden right arm is ready to go. “We’re going to figure out some kind of modified workout,” he said. “I’ve been able to keep [the arm] in shape. Throwing is different. Not normal mechanics. But the arm feels good.”

Gray, who received a few down-ballot votes for Rookie of the Year a season ago, has pitched in just 12.1 innings this season for Colorado. He told BSN Denver a little over a week ago that he was 100 percent pain-free. While we still don’t have an exact date for his return, it sounds like things are going smoothly and we should have more and more updates as he nears his return to the first-place Colorado Rockies.