Paul Sullivan: Cubs' Darvish returns to Wrigley mound Wednesday for key simulated game
CHICAGO - Yu Darvish takes his next big step toward returning to the Cubs on Wednesday when he throws a simulated game at Wrigley Field.
Darvish was scheduled to throw one Tuesday, but the day-night doubleheader forced the Cubs to push him back a day.
It's not expected to draw a huge media crowd, as Mark Prior's simulated games used to do back in the days of towel drills and virtually unlimited pitch counts.
Prior had so many "sim" games under his belt he once joked in
