Aziz Elyas Quotes

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.

We`re not going to let him pick a ball up for three days. We`re not going to take any chances with this because of the nature of the injury.

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.

However old the fracture is, it`s completely healed. It`s still tender and it`s still sore. But the wrist is not broken. We can say that now.

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.

We just weren`t going to take a chance in this cold, damp weather.

He missed some time but he`s OK now. He went back and played a few games.

We`ll wait until (today) to see how he feels and make a decision, but he threw in the pen today and he threw well.

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.

It`s not a major injury, but in a baseball player, particularly a pitcher ... you`ve got to be very cautious and very conservative.