When I come back, I want to be able to help this ballclub, ... Not just be a body on the field. So I've still got to run the bases (in practice), and I've still got to do a couple more things.
It feels like a long time, ... It's going to be the jitters all over again. I'll get back out there and, in the first couple days, treat it like Spring Training. Get out there and get my feet wet again and just take it one day at a time.
I think I've been in some good situations where I've been on teams that needed a couple key players but already had their nucleus intact,
I've gotten a lot better, and things have really been picking up the last couple of days. I know I'm not going to be 100-percent healthy, but I just want to be 100-percent functional.
Carpenter did an amazing job, ... We all knew he had had a couple of bad outings. But there was no doubt in my mind he would be the Carpenter we knew and we had seen all year.