The Brewers have announced that the left -hander Nestor Cortes Was placed on the list of wounded by 15 days due to a flexor tension in his elbow throwing. South Grant Wolfram was called from Triple-A to take the place of cortes on the active list.
It was now the second time in eight months that a flexor stump sent Cortes to the IL, when a similar injury put it out last September when Cortes still tank with the Yankees. He was able to return for two appearances in the World Series, including his famous rescue exit in match 1 which saw Cortes Freddie FreemanWalkoff Grand Slam.
Brewers assistant GM Matt Kleine told journalists (including Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) that Cortes felt a little discomfort of the elbow led at his last departure, although Cortes has always delivered six sleeves of laundering balls against the Reds on April 3. Kleine does not think that the tension of the flexors is one “long -term problem“And Cortes himself told Hogg and the company that his level of concern was”lowly. “A previous series of analyzes erased Cortes to launch three days ago, but Cortes said that he would look for a second opinion just in reasonable diligence.
Cortes is now the seventh launcher starting from the list of absurdly crowded injuries of Milwaukee, because the Brewers have already reached the critical mass to launch health just over a week after the start of the season. Tobias Myers And Aaron Ashby The two oblique strains supported during spring training, CIVAL AARON made a regular start to the season before a tension in the hamstrings sends it to the IL, and Brandon Woodruff started the season on the 15 -day Il when he continues his long recovery from shoulder surgery. In other longer term absences, Hall DL is on the 60 -day il after having undergone a lat strain this spring, and Robert Gasser Tommy John’s surgery is recovered last June.
Freddy Peralta is now the only healthy member of the projected rotation of the Brewers. Tyler Alexander,, Elvin RodriguezAnd Chad Patrick (All swingmen or multi-manche rescue options in an ideal world) include makeshift rotation behind Peralta and the choice of rule 5 Connor Thomas Could now be called upon to take a first or two in the absence of cortes, with Wolfram taking the place of Thomas as an enclosure of the left surveys. Brewers have signed a veteran Jose Quintana To provide more depth of rotation in early March, but he still builds his Triple-A arm because of his late start to spring training.
Cortes was acquired as part of the largest trade in Brewers, as cortes, Caleb Durbinand $ 2 million in cash came from Yankees to Devin Williams Back in December. Cortes and Williams are free agents waiting, but Milwaukee was able to save a little money to make his star closer while obtaining a new long -term interior piece and (in theory) a veteran arm to stabilize the rotation.
This cortes injury now throws this plan out of control, and the south and the brewers can only hope that tension is as relatively minor as it seems. Between his last regular season game in 2024 and the World Series match 1, Cortes missed about five weeks, which would represent a fairly large part of the 2025 campaign if he needed a similar recovery period this time.
The promotion of Wolfram also deserves to be noted, because the 28 -year -old left -hander is now about to make his debut in the major league. Choice of the 18th round for the rangers in the 2018 draft, Wolfram spent his entire career in Texas Farm System before concluding a guaranteed agreement with Milwaukee last December, putting him on a list of 40 men for the first time. Wolfram had an MPM of 3.34, a rate of withdrawal of 25.6% and a walking rate of 10.9% on 56 2/3 sleeves with Triple-A round rock in 2024, and its first two triple-A outings for Brewers resulted in a 6.00 MPM on three rounds.
