Health/Status of Tony Graffanino

[molitor fan]

I just wanted to get a check of what Tony's status was for the upcoming season. Will he be ready for the start of the season, and is there any chance he could be back in a Brewer uniform? I was looking through baseball-reference, and saw that in 40 games with Graffy hitting in the 8 hole, that the Brewers were 26-14. By the way, the Brewers scored 4.3 with Estrada in the 5 hole, compared to 5.0 overall (which would equate out to 5.2 or 5.3 if you extrapolate it out to lineup positions other than 5 for Estrada.

[pitchleague]

I thought I remember reading that he'd be out until at least the all-star break, since most knee injuries like his take a good 9-full months (sometimes a full year!) to heal properly.

[DHonks]

Graffy had to have two surgeries...one for ligaments, one a bone graft. So he's out till the all-star break at least

[Zycho32]

All-Star Break?

 

I guess that's long enough to figure out the Roster Logistics when he does recover.