I can say that they thought it was successful surgery, and we expect his rehab should be good. Now, we'll see what it's like in January, but right now everything is pretty optimistic.

That's past history, ... He had the surgery. It's over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery and just go forward.

That's past history. He had the surgery. It's over with. All we can hope for now is a speedy recovery, and just go forward.

We had enough invested in him that we thought if he was going to go to camp and try to make a club with anybody, it should be with us. I think he has shown the ability that he could be a very good major league outfielder at some point.

I thought he might have done a little something more (as in managing in the minors), but maybe he's ready for this.

I really didn't see much difference between the two (bullpens). Flores has been very good, and I don't think anyone envisioned Thompson helping this quickly, but he has.