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Phoenix - We just got the news that Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy will have surgery Thursday to have a pin inserted in the broken pinkie finger on his throwing hand that he suffered today.

The prognosis is that Lucroy will be out four weeks.

That time frame would take the Brewers to within a week of the end of camp, which would make it very difficult for Lucroy to be ready for the start of the season, especially after being sidelined all of that time. It's likely that he'll open the season on the DL but I'll talk to a club official and get back to you on that.

Lucroy suffered the injury in a drill in which catchers block balls in the dirt. He got his bare hand into the mitt too soon and the pinkie finger was struck and fractured.

This is a fairly big blow for the Brewers because Lucroy is still a young, relatively inexperienced catcher and they wanted him to catch a lot this spring. Instead, those duties will be shared by George Kottaras, Wil Nieves and Mike Rivera, who were slated to vie for the backup job, and also minor-leaguer Martin Maldonado.

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