{"id":133548,"date":"2025-06-27T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/133548\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:01:11","slug":"brewers-third-base-prospect-brock-wilken-to-miss-8-10-weeks-with-dislocated-left-patella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/133548\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers third base prospect Brock Wilken to miss 8-10 weeks with dislocated left patella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/brewers\/2025\/05\/15\/brewers-prospect-analysis-is-brock-wilkens-breakout-legitimate\/83586122007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brock Wilken&#039;s resurgent season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brock Wilken&#8217;s resurgent season<\/a> has been put on hold for now.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old third baseman, ranked as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/brewers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Brewers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/brewers\/2025\/06\/25\/milwaukee-brewers-prospect-rankings-midseason-2025-update-no-11-20\/84295001007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:15th-best prospect;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">15th-best prospect<\/a>, will be sidelined eight to 10 weeks as he recovers from a dislocated left patella.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wilken suffered the injury June 18 in the wake of the Class AA Biloxi Shuckers&#8217; first-half championship, as he slipped in the clubhouse during the team&#8217;s celebration.<\/p>\n<p>A surgical option was available, but both player and team decided against it.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Milwaukee Brewers prospect Brock Wilken is pictured prior to a spring training game in 2024.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"788\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9b5b2eded7f8e3373e98efd87159bd76.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Brewers prospect Brock Wilken is pictured prior to a spring training game in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Wilken bounced back from a rough 2024 that included surgery to fix multiple fractures after he was hit in the face by a pitch early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025 he was hitting .230 with 18 home runs, 41 runs batted in and an OPS of .942 in 65 games. At the time of his injury, Wilken&#8217;s 18 homers were tied for the most in all of minor-league baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Perkins getting closer<\/p>\n<p>In some good injury related news, outfielder Blake Perkins had his minor-league rehab stint transferred to Class AAA Nashville on Thursday, June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was activated to play at Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>A standout defender who was a finalist for the Rawlings National League Gold Glove Award in center field, Perkins missed almost all of spring training due to a fractured right tibia and hit .389 with two RBI in seven games in the rookie Arizona Complex League.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/brewers\/2025\/06\/26\/brewers-prospect-brock-wilken-out-8-10-weeks-with-dislocated-kneecap\/84374544007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brewers prospect Brock Wilken out 8-10 weeks with dislocated kneecap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brewers prospect Brock Wilken out 8-10 weeks with dislocated kneecap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock Wilken&#8217;s resurgent season has been put on hold for now. The 23-year-old third baseman, ranked as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,9114,136,25265,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-133548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blake-perkins","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-brock-wilken","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114752394704278693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}