He threw off the mound toward the end, really just to get him up on the hill and get used to the slope again and get his balance and things like that right. |
He threw some breaking balls today -- we're really concentrating more on building arm strength. We'll spin the ball some, but I don't really worry about the breaking ball as much as some other pitches until the arm strength gets built up. Those things will come back. |
He was overthrowing a little bit. He was trying to do a lot of things that he does during the season, but it's the second time out and the conditions are a lot different. As long as he comes out of it healthy, that's the primary thing. |
He went through his throwing and we'll see him after he gets the procedure done and go from there. |
He'll bump it up some and two days after that bump it up a little more. Then we will re-evaluate it. |
He'll get off the mound here shortly. We're building it up and hopefully it's not too long before he's real comfortable off the mound. |
He's a young guy. It's like Billy Martin said -- if you tell him 10 times, tell him 11. Hopefully, that's the one that catches. He's gotten better and better at a lot of things. Obviously, there's room for improvement in concentration and not getting distracted by things. That's something we'll keep striving for. A lot of pitchers face that. Hopefully, we'll get through that. |
He's become a good catcher for us. He takes a lot of pride in it, and he's improved in every phase. |
He's doing fine, and his recovery time [between throwing sessions] is being cut down. |
He's doing what he should be doing. He's throwing with maximum effort that his arm will allow him to right now. |
He's going through the usual stuff. As you increase the workload, the in-between days are going to get tougher to get loose. That's what we expected. We'll keep him around [30 pitches] until we can get him through some bumps in the road. |
He's going through treatment. We'll see how he reacts in the next couple days and then draw up [a program]. |
He's got a few more sides [to do] to build up strength and stamina and work on a few things mechanically and then he should be ready. |
He's gotten better. He's more aware of it and the impact it has, especially being under the microscope at this level. I don't want him to lose the energy, just channel it enough that the concentration stays on getting hitters out and winning games and that's the end of it. |
He's not at the height of his career but there's still a lot of good games for him to pitch. We talked at the end of the year about certain things he could do to return to what he's done in the past. |