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. |
He's throwing fine. It's just building up strength and stamina and his pitches and tiring him out without going overboard with it, and we'll keep progressing from what we did today. |
He's where he should be in a rehab. He's throwing at the maximum effort that his arm will allow him. If we can keep him on the rehab schedule, whenever he's able to come back, he'll be back the way he should be -- instead of rushing it and putting timetables on it, which obviously you don't do. |
His velocity and location are so good, ... he's one of those guys where you can know what's coming and you still won't hit it. |
Hopefully, a minimum of three. I think if we build up the innings, three could be enough. I just have to see how he is [Monday] and go from there. |
Hopefully, we're on the right path. |
I can understand [the reaction], sure. I think it'll ease everybody's mind once he gets on the mound and gets into action and gets the arm strength where [it] should be. |
I don't have a plan yet for games, but he could pitch by the fourth or fifth one [in March]. |
I don't put schedules on rehab. |
I don't put schedules on rehab. That will be determined as we go. He's where he should be in a rehab from the surgery. No setbacks or anything. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we are after. |
I don't think it's going to affect his timetable for June 1. He just fatigued pretty quickly. |
I don't want him following somebody in relief at this point in his career. He gets a lot out of stuff early. |
I don't want him to go out there without having completely built up the arm strength to where he should be. I want him in an environment where we can build him up without any kind of risk. We've gotten a lot further along with that in a short period of time. I think he's on schedule to do everything we need him to do and not have any problems. That's the way I'm assuming it's going to go, and we'll keep progressing. |
I have a lot of respect for Jim. He's a great manager. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was very successful there to team up with Dave again. |