"I'm going to go back and reassess everything, because this sure hasn't been a fun past couple of years," he said. "It's been pretty miserable, to tell you the truth, especially performing at a level you know that you're better than. It's not that much fun.

"If I feel like I can't get back to the same level I did before, then maybe I would consider doing something else. But I'm not even thinking about that right now. Hopefully, nothing is wrong."

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 The shoulder flared up two weeks into camp during a 15-minute bullpen session. Ainsworth blamed it on the usual spring training soreness, an optimistic view that no longer holds.

"I was just trying to get through it," he said. "It hurt to get loose. It hurts to throw. It affects my pitching. If I could just deal with the pain and throw like I have done in the past few years with everything else going on, that's different. But this is actually starting to affect my pitches now.

"I have nothing there. It's like I'm throwing the ball and it isn't even coming out. I'm lobbing it in there."