Jobe Examines Sore Shoulder of Mariners’ Salkeld

Roger Salkeld, the Seattle Mariners’ No. 1 pitching prospect, is being examined by prominent sports physician Frank Jobe after spending spring training with a sore right shoulder.

Salkeld, 21, a 1989 Saugus High graduate and the nation’s third pick in that year’s amateur baseball draft, has not pitched in two weeks since making the second of two rehabilitation starts at the Mariners’ extended spring training site in Tempe, Ariz. Salkeld began the season on the disabled list, then underwent a rehabilitation program, a club spokesman said.

Salkeld met with Jobe in Los Angeles on Monday and is scheduled for more tests this week.

“Preliminary tests show that it’s nothing serious,” said Lee Pelekoudas, the Mariners’ director of baseball administrations. “It wasn’t specifically tendinitis, it was just stiffness. We’ll wait and see what we hear from Dr. Jobe’s office.”

Salkeld said Tuesday he is uncertain whether he is able to throw without experiencing pain.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I haven’t thrown in a long time. I’ve seen Dr. Jobe, but he hasn’t gotten back to me.”

Salkeld received a $225,000 signing bonus after posting a 13-1 record as a senior with 178 strikeouts and an 0.57 earned-run average in 108 2/3 innings.

During a career in which his fastball was clocked at 90 m.p.h., Salkeld was 30-7 with a 1.31 ERA and 404 strikeouts in 266 1/3 innings at Saugus.

He also pitched a no-hitter during his senior year.