Guardians say 3B Jose Ramirez ‘should be just fine in a few days’

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Cleveland Guardians third baseman José Ramírez was feeling much better Monday after the seven-time All-Star left a spring training game the previous day because of a sore shoulder, according to manager Stephen Vogt.

“We’re going to reassess him day by day. He should be just fine in a few days,” Vogt said Monday. “He knows himself really well. … He came up from the on-deck circle and said, ‘I’m done.’ And that was really all I heard until later in the game.”

After Sunday’s game, Vogt said Ramírez had a sore left shoulder after jamming it while sliding into third for a stolen base. That came in the second inning after his double, and he was lifted for a pinch hitter in the fourth.

The 33-year-old Ramírez has played his entire 13-year career in Cleveland and is a lifetime .279 hitter with 285 home runs and 949 RBIs in 1,609 games. The $175 million, seven-year contract he signed during the off-season is the largest in franchise history.

Ramírez finished third in AL MVP voting last season after batting .283 with 30 homers and 85 RBIs.