Mark Melancon plans to start throwing Dec. 15, around the time he usually begins his offseason throwing program, putting him on pace to be ready for spring training.
“I don’t have to push, given it’s the offseason,” Melancon said Tuesday, a week removed from his surgery to relieve compression in his forearm by cuttting the fascia around his pronator.
“I’m going to take the conservative pace, 2 ½ to three months. Basically I’m on schedule to do everything I normally would with maybe a little delay in workouts for a couple of weeks.”
The Giants, who signed Melancon for four years and $62 million, expect him to be recovered well before spring training, and Melancon expects his rare condition called pronator syndrome, which he experienced on and off since 2012, to be gone.