Bukauskas will get surgery on his lat after fourth injury
Milwaukee Brewers reliever J.B. Bukauskas will undergo surgery on his injured right lat, requiring nine to 10 months for recovery, per Todd Rosiak.
JB Bukauskas will have surgery on his injured right lat and need 9-10 months to recover.
It’s the fourth time Bukauskas has injured the same lat.
“It sounds weird but I’m excited,” he said. “I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and finally get it fixed.”
— Todd Rosiak (@Todd_Rosiak) February 25, 2025
Bukauskas, who will be 29 at the end of the season, has made 33 career MLB appearances, including 11 appearances with the Brewers between 2023 and 2024. A former first-round pick, Bukauskas last saw big league action in April 2024, though he did make six appearances between the ACL Brewers and Triple-A Nashville last summer as he worked back from his latest lat injury.
The surgery marks what is hopefully the final injury in a long line of lat injuries. Per Rosiak, Bukauskas has injured the same lat four times, limiting him to fewer than 25 appearances in every season but one between the minors and MLB dating back to his debut in 2017.
Bukauskas is not currently on the team’s 40-man roster after being DFA’d with the signing of Elvin Rodríguez earlier in the offseason.