You could see there was more quickness to his arm. He just looked more comfortable throwing the ball.

He shows us the ability to throw strikes any time in the count. He has a high level of concentration on every pitch, and that's something we like. Because of his experience, he has an excellent chance to be in the rotation. The ball is really in his court.

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.

If he pulls something, even though it's not the spot where we're concentrating on, it could set him back too far. We probably did the right thing.

He threw about 12 pitches off the mound and a bunch off flat ground. It's pretty amazing to watch.

He threw all his pitches, and it was as close to a normal routine as I have seen.

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'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.

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.