Vanderbilt baseball was without Mike Mancini in its first four games due to a quadriceps injury, coach Tim Corbin said after a 13-2 win over Eastern Michigan on Feb. 17.
The injury isn't likely to keep Mancini out much longer.
"He's close," Corbin said. "Kind of disrupted his quad right before we left for Texas. So he wants to play. We're just doing our best to hold him back because he wants to go right now, but it's a long season."
Mancini did not play during the Shriner's Children's College Showdown tournament in Texas last week, though he was on deck to pinch-hit in the ninth inning of the first game.
In 2025, his first season after transferring from James Madison, Mancini hit .269 with four home runs in a season that started late due to a fractured hamate bone.
Mancini could fit in second base or left field when he returns. So far, Carter Johnstone has been playing second base and Rustan Rigdon playing left field.
Aria Gerson covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. Contact her at [email protected] or on X, formerly Twitter, @aria_gerson.
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