“He looks a lot leaner and skinnier than he did last year, but his upper body is bigger and he probably will be stronger. It's only going to help him to have eight or 10 pounds off.”
“It would be a mistake on my part to assume this is a major or a bad injury. If it ends up with him missing a long period of time, then that's what's going to happen. But we hope that he doesn't.”
“We're not going to take any chances. He can do a lot of things right now. Gil was able to throw a bullpen at about 70 percent and felt OK. That's a good sign.”
“It's an old fracture and it's completely healed. It's not related to anything that's going to cause a problem. He might have done it when he was seven years old skateboarding in Orange County, for all I know.”
