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INF Luis Urías (left quad)
Expected return: Late April
Urías came to camp positioned to be the Brewers’ Opening Day third baseman, but he felt a twinge in his left quad while going from first to third on a Pedro Severino double against the Rangers on March 19 and has been making slower progress than he’d hoped. He ran on the field for the first time on March 26 and has since started hitting in the cage and playing catch, and the Brewers hope he’ll begin getting at-bats in Arizona sometime later this week.
He’ll eventually go on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Nashville or Double-A Biloxi, depending on the weather, and will spend another seven to 10 days there. There had been some hope Urías would be ready to join the Brewers at the start of their second road trip, but that’s unlikely now.
“We’re having to go at the pace the injury is telling us right now,” manager Craig Counsell said. — Adam McCalvy (Last updated April 12)
RHP Justin Topa (right elbow)
Expected return: Mid-2022
Topa was on track for the 2021 Opening Day roster before he reinjured his twice-repaired right elbow last spring. He tried to recover without another procedure, but “things went south” over the summer due to a golf ball-sized lump of scar tissue that had impeded healing, and Topa underwent surgery Sept. 14 to repair his flexor tendon. Topa threw on flat ground from 150 feet during the week of March 29, the final step in his flat-ground progression, and following a planned weeklong taper, he is on track to get off a mound for the first time sometime in the week of April 11. He hopes to begin a rehab assignment sometime in May.
“A third Tommy John [surgery] would have been worst case. Emotions were running high there at that point when that’s what we thought it was,” Topa said. “Thankfully, on the flip side, it was just the flexor and they got in there and repaired it and started rehab right away. … I think the goal is that by the middle of May to get on a rehab assignment. My internal goal is end of May, early June. Things can accelerate that timeline or push things back. I feel like I’m in a good spot and I feel good strength-wise and mobility-wise.” — Adam McCalvy (Last updated April 5)
