MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki is reporting that Brett Myers is “way ahead of schedule” and that there is no reason he could 
not return to the team by mid to late August.
Zolecki says, “Brett Myers, whose season appeared finished when he had surgery on his right hip June 4, said he is “way ahead of schedule” and will throw a bullpen session Saturday at Citizens Bank Park. Myers said Bryan Kelly, the hip specialist who performed the surgery in New York, told him earlier this month there is no reason he couldn’t be back with the Phillies from mid to late August.
“I knew in the back of my mind that I was going to be back this year, even when they said my season was over,” Myers said. “I had a feeling that everything was going to be OK.”
If Myers returns, he will be pitching out of the bullpen.
“There’s no time for me to get up to 100 pitches,” he said. “I’m not going to help the team if I go four innings. That’s not going to help anybody.”
But Myers could help as a late-inning reliever. He picked up 21 saves for the Phillies in 2007, so he knows the bullpen.
“I’ll do anything it takes to help,” he said. “Do I want to help out when some of those guys go back-to-back? Yeah.”
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