Brewers reliever JB Bukauskas will bear lat surgical procedure, studies Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The process comes with a 9-10 month restoration timeline, so it’ll finish his season.
Bukauskas was in camp as a non-roster invitee after Milwaukee outrighted him off the 40-man final month. The 28-year-old righty spent most of final season on the 60-day injured listing. He tossed six innings of one-run ball. A lat damage despatched him to the IL in the midst of April and wound up being a season ender. That sadly flared up but once more in camp and can value him all the ’25 marketing campaign.
A 2017 first-round decide, Bukauskas has made 33 main league appearances between three groups. He has a 5.04 earned run common over 30 1/3 innings. He has gotten grounders on a powerful 53.2% of batted balls, however accidents have prevented him from carving out a constant bullpen function. Inside the previous few years, Bukauskas has misplaced time to an elbow pressure, a teres main (shoulder) damage, and a number of important lat points.
Since he isn’t on the 40-man roster, Bukauskas will spend the 12 months on the minor league IL. He’ll qualify for minor league free company subsequent winter, when he’ll hopefully get wholesome and look to catch on someplace with a non-roster Spring Coaching invite.
