Polanco (knee) doubtful for Opening Day

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jorge Polanco won’t be prepared to start out the common season on time, Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey introduced Sunday.

The membership had beforehand been optimistic that its beginning second baseman could be there for Opening Day regardless of a conservative strategy to his buildup in camp, however lingering soreness surrounding his comeback from the left knee points that ended his 2022 common season prevented him from making the mandatory progress.

“He hasn’t been able to do all the leg activities and all the legwork and all the running and all the strength and conditioning stuff that everybody would at this stage, so some of it’s just responding to where he is from a timing standpoint,” Falvey mentioned. “Obviously, the calendar performs a job now as we get nearer and nearer to Opening Day.

“He’s a little behind; there’s no other way to put that. But how far behind? We’ll have a better sense of where we go on Tuesday.”