I was very pleased. I'm sure Eric feels good about what he did. He had a little extra on his fastball. He threw it by some pretty good hitters.

We'll see how he reacts. We'll be guided by how he feels. The bottom line is we'll do what we have to do to support Vern.

It wasn't anything to be alarmed about. Just more of a precaution to make sure we get it all calmed down and not aggravate it to where it becomes a bigger deal.

We know he has received other good offers. But we're very interested in acquiring his services because we think he could be the fourth or fifth pitcher in our rotation.

We want to make sure we have a really good set of cutoff sensors, because, after all, that is a critical function and we want to be safe when we fly.

I would hope by the time we have our organizational meetings at the end of October that we have a better sense of who we are, that we have a sense of where we're going, that we set a game plan, which I wasn't able to do, obviously, this year. This whole year's going to be an evaluation process of a lot of things.