Jays’ Jansen expected to miss season opener

Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen has a fractured bone in his right wrist and could miss opening day, manager John Schneider said Friday.

Jansen sustained the injury to the pisiform bone when he was hit by a 93.4 m.p.h. fastball from Pittsburgh’s Carmen Mlodzinski during Wednesday’s spring training game.

“It’s a small bone between the hand and wrist,” Schneider said.

Schneider said Jansen is unlikely for the March 28 opener at Tampa Bay.

“He’ll have to catch and ramp back up and hit,” Schneider said. “Hopefully, the first couple weeks of the season he’ll be back.”

Right-hander Jake Odorizzi rejoined the Tampa Bay Rays, agreeing Friday to a minor-league contract. The 33-year-old former all-star will report to major league spring training. He did not pitch last year following shoulder surgery on April 5.

Odorizzi is 74-69 with a 3.99 ERA in 237 starts and four relief appearances in 11 seasons with Kansas City (2012), the Rays (2013-17), Minnesota (2018-20), Houston (2021-22) and Atlanta (2022). He won a career-best 15 games in 2019, when he was an AL all-star.

Defensive lineman Aaron Donald has announced his retirement after a standout 10-year career with the Los Angeles Rams.

The three-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year made his surprising announcement on social media Friday. The 32-year-old Donald spent his entire career with the Rams, who drafted him in the first round in 2014. He was selected for 10 Pro Bowls and eight All-pro first teams, and he won the award as the league’s top defensive player in 2017, 2018 and 2020.

Donald reached the peak of his stardom after the Rams moved from St. Louis back to Los Angeles in 2016. He had a career-high 20½ sacks in 2018 on the way to his first Super Bowl appearance. He then played a major role in the Rams’ run to a Super Bowl victory three years later, famously applying the pressure that forced Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow to throw incomplete at midfield on the Bengals’ final play of Los Angeles’ 23-20 victory in Super Bowl 56.

Lawrence Taylor and J.J. Watt are the only other players to win the defensive player of the year award three times.