Nick Friedel

And I think you're seeing a ball club that's very slowly, and I say, yes, we're at the quarter pole, but very slowly they're beginning to believe that they can play with anybody.

I mean, going out to San Diego and taking two or three was pretty impressive.

Marshall, I'm not sure that anybody can really put a definitive date on his return.

But when I talked with him the last couple of days, he said to me that when he swings the bat, he doesn't feel anything, which is great.

When he runs, and he told me he was running at 95%,

He said that that's good.

He passed the last test before he goes out on the rehab.

And so what's probably going to happen is this.

They're not going to catch him three days in a row.

They're going to ease him into that.

I think he probably catches five, six innings perhaps in the first one, and then he's going to be a DH for a day and probably go back and extend that a while.

So I can't really speculate necessarily.

on how anybody's body is going to react when he goes, again, full go, even though it's AAA.

It's still a professional game, and he's going to let it all go and see if his body is able to support that.

Hamstrings are tricky.

You can't really predict exactly what they're going to look like and how long it's going to take.

Yes, he had a setback a couple of weeks ago.

We thought he was going out on the rehab.

He wasn't.

But just getting him back and this team staying afloat while he's been away is