SEATTLE -- Casper Wells doesn't know exactly how to describe what derailed the end of his 2011 season with the Mariners, but he does know the health and head issues that plagued him have gone away and he's ready and rarin' to go again as Spring Training nears.
Mariners trainer Rick Griffin said the young outfielder has fully recovered from what he called a "balance disorder." The club previously has referred to "vertigo-like symptoms" in trying to put a name on Wells' late-season trouble that caused him to miss the final 12 games after his batting average plummeted in the previous month.
All Wells knows is that he started having vision and balance problems soon after he took a Brandon Morrow fastball off the nose in an Aug. 17 game against the Blue Jays. At the time, Wells was batting .277 with an .859 OPS, and he had homered in four straight games at Safeco Field.
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