out of the blue. |
Overall, we're just real pleased with how this has gone so far. He looked good and has looked good for a while. |
So we'll go with what he says. If he says he feels it, we'll probably be more conservative. |
The Dodgers had 1,200 days missed, the Diamondbacks 1,000. But while injuries did play a huge part last year for us, we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. |
The swelling was almost completely gone. He had full motion and no pain. That's all very, very positive. I really didn't expect it to turn around that quickly. |
There is some inflammation in the muscle and it is his push-off leg, so that's a concern any time for a pitcher, ... We'll know more in the next day or so. |
This was all his idea. When he left, he had no problems with the knee, but we will evaluate it tomorrow. This does not, in my mind, factor into when he will play in a game, and we do not have a timetable on that. |
Ultimately the player makes this decision, to a certain degree, |
We felt the same way, that we were losing because of our [training department], but once the emotions of the season subsided, we had to look at it objectively. |
We're back at square one. |
We're going to be pretty conservative. The worst thing you can do is move too fast and set him back. |
We're going to go back to the things that worked the last eight years. No matter what age a person is, he still has to go out and run. |
We're going to play a lot off of what Barry tells us, because he's the only one who knows how his knee is going to feel. It's always going to be a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to- month thing. You can't help but be pleased that he came here, he did some good stuff, he left, and we'll see how it is tomorrow. |
You always look at stuff like that, but that was seven or eight years ago. He's had absolutely no problems with that since. That's pretty much ancient history. |