Ryu is scheduled to start Friday's Grapefruit League game against the Tigers, Hazel Mae of Sportsnet reports.

EDGE Analysis

Though he'll be making his spring debut later than most of Toronto's healthy pitchers, Ryu shouldn't be too far behind them from a conditioning standpoint. Before he reported to spring training once the lockout ended, Ryu had been taking part in workouts in South Korea with the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization. He contracted COVID-19 during his training program, but he was asymptomatic after testing positive for the virus and made a swift recovery. He'll head into his age-35 campaign coming off a down 2021 in which he finished with a 4.37 ERA, his worst mark in any of his seven MLB seasons where he made multiple starts.