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Counsell: Goal is to get Blazek feeling healthy
- Updated: September 16, 2016
CHICAGO — Michael Blazek threw his second simulated game Thursday since being reinstated from the 15-day disabled list, but he will throw at least one more before a definitive plan is made to get him back in a game.
Brewers manager Craig Counsell called the right-hander’s latest simulated game, at Wrigley Field, “another step forward,” but said Blazek will make a third one next week at Miller Park.
“The goal with Mike is just to go into the offseason healthy,” Counsell said of Blazek, who’s been on the DL twice this season, with the latest stint caused by a right forearm strain. “We’re not short a guy in the bullpen at this point, so it’s not a rush to get him back or [have a] normal timetable to get him back. It’s just go into the offseason healthy. So, we’ll throw one more [bullpen session] and then I think we should be in good shape.”
Blazek was sidelined from June 1-18 with a right elbow impingement, and then hit the DL a second time Aug. 16, retroactive to Aug. 14, with the forearm strain. He hasn’t pitched in a …
