MILWAUKEE -- Nick Mears has experienced being thrown into baseball’s proverbial deep end. Acquired from the Rockies at last year’s Trade Deadline , he went from the injured list one week to pitching against the Mets in the National League Wild Card Series the next.

“I had [two outings] and then it was all or nothing in the Wild Card,” said Mears, who’d missed more than a month with a forearm strain. “Yeah, you’re going to be physically ready coming off the IL, but it’s about the mentality and the mental side of things.”

A year later, Mears is once again in a group of Brewers bullpen arms attempting that kind of late-stage comeback. He landed on the IL with a back injury during the first week of September and, after navigating two mound sessions without incident, is poised to return t

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