<p>PHOENIX -- Aaron Hill and Willie Bloomquist are waiting on the disabled list for their respective injuries to improve before taking their next steps forward in returning to the D-backs.</p><p>Hill, who suffered a broken hand on April 9 and has been on the DL since April 15, was hoping to be out of his soft cast this week but the bone was still tender when he tried to pick up a bat and doctors ordered him to keep the cast on for another week.</p><p>"Until we see it heal, we don't want to mess with it," he said. "You just feel it when you do something, but that's why they have it in a cast."</p><p>The second baseman will visit the doctor again Sunday and undergo another CT scan on Monday with the hopes of seeing enough improvement to hit off a tee at some point next week.</p><p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130509&content_id=47087698&notebook_id=47092226&vkey=notebook_ari&c_id=ari">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130508&content_id=46988100&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb">D-backs place Putz on DL with elbow strain</a> (New York Mets)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dJXy5Xg0fxEdV-MlKXCPGEbh6uwqM&ned=us">60 additional articles.</a></p>