Toronto Blue Jays' Marquee Free Agent Dealing with Back Injury at Spring Training

It's certainly never good to hear about a player experiencing discomfort in camp, but this shouldn't rise to the level of worry yet. 

In addition to getting him healthy, the Jays need to work on defining a role for Rodriguez. Given that he signed a deal for more than $30 million, he figures to be a starter moving forward. However, with five starting pitchers already penciled into the starting rotation, how will Toronto use him?

Can they get him healthy and ready in time to potentially bump Alek Manoah from the starting rotation? Or will they slow play him, build him up in the minor leagues and then bring him up to the rotation if and when there's an injury?

And finally, if the team is content with Manoah as a starter, could they put Rodriguez into the bullpen and utilize him as a multi-inning guy to start? If that's the case, this delayed start to spring wouldn't matter as much because they wouldn't need to build up a full workload.