The Milwaukee Brewers will have to give up pitcher Jimmy Nelson for longer than expected.The right-handed person has to be operated on the shoulder and will miss part of the 2018 season.
Nelson has contracted a partial rupture of the joint lip in his shoulder and has to undergo surgery; conventional treatment is not an option, as Brewers General Manager Davis Stearns explained on Wednesday.
“This is probably the most moderately difficult possible scenario,”Stearns explained:”The best case would have been, as Jimmy had already told you, that the doctor looks at it and realizes that only a smaller procedure would be necessary, so that he would have returned to the start of next season.Obviously, we no longer assume that this is the case.We think he’s gonna miss a big part of next year.”
Stearns also made it clear, however, that he was expecting the pitcher back:”The good thing is that we think he will be able to pitch in the MLB sometime next year.We don’t know exactly when, but we’ll see how the rehab goes.
On Tuesday, Nelson underwent an exploratory operation, which revealed that the injury had to be repaired.Nelson was injured when he fought back to the first base last week as a base runner.It was already clear after the first tests that the current season was over for him.
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