Chicago Cubs Veteran Reliever hits another milestone in return of injuries

If the Chicago Cubs want to win a World Series, it helps to have players who did it before. Enter Ryan Brasier.

After the Los Angeles Dodgers described him as a order for the order in January, they exchanged him to the Chicago Cubs so that a player is called later or cash. The move was a way for the Dodgers to get something for the 37-year-old veteran. For the Cubs it was an additional Bullpen arm with a lot of experience in big games.

He helped the Dodgers last season at World Series and supported the Bullpen for the Boston Red Sox during her World Series run 2018.

The hope for the Cubs was rather the same. And he gave his season debut with the Cubs during their Tokyo series in March against the Dodgers. He threw up in a game when he gave up two goals and a deserved run in an inn. He struck one and went one.

But since then it has been on the shelf. On March 26, he was moved to the 15-day injured list of a left-wing strain.

Since then he has been working his back, but he gets closer. Last week he was in the facility of the team in Arizona and trained. At the beginning of this week he threw a bullpen.

On Saturday he threw live training before the Cubs game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Live strike practice is an important yardstick for a pitcher when returning injuries. It usually signals the willingness to take over a rehab task in the small leagues.

He will be re -evaluated by MLB.com in the coming days because the Cubs want to see how he feels before he sets the next step.

Brasier has never been an all-star, but he was a reliable tool since he made his debut with the Los Angeles Angels with the Los Angeles Angels in 2013.

In 298 career games he is 10-8 with an ERA of 3.87. He has 282 strikeouts and 85 walks in 286.1 Innerings.

The CUBs have put together a reliable bullpen, which Ryan Pressly was managed as The Closer and Porter Hodge, who came closer last year, but has become a reliable setup man. Brasier has never been a full-time wall, but he has 10 career parades and 63 career. He is a pitcher that the cubs can hand over to the seventh or eighth inning as soon as he returns.