Ron Roenicke told reporters this morning that there’s no timetable for Corey Hart’s return from a strained oblique muscle and the right fielder isn’t healthy enough to begin a minor-league rehab assignment:
We’re still trying to push things and get him to 100 percent. He still feels that if he does throw, there’s going to be tightness. He’s got to get through it. He’s no 100 percent yet. There is not a timetable. We have to get him 100 percent throwing and swinging the bat. We don’t think it’s that far away, maybe a couple of days, but he has to get over that.
When he suffered the injury in late February the initial timetable was around two weeks, but Hart later aggravated the oblique strain and now a late-April return seems like the best-case scenario. In the meantime the Brewers started Mark Kotsay in right field on Opening Day and again in Game 3, used Erick Almonte there in Game 2, and are going with Nyjer Morgan in Hart’s place today.
