This is what Butch Thompson told Andy Burcham in a podcast this morning, which is linked below...
"The Georgia folks helped out, looked at him on Saturday. Structurally sound and all the things that you want to hear. We just decided to get back to town because we think we have the best folks in the world. They're looking at it today as we speak. Regardless of the outcome, and hopefully it's as mild as we believe that it is, still we have to sit down and talk about long-term. This is a marathon and not a sprint, and what do we do this weekend? I would think that regardless of what we wind up getting maybe later today or tomorrow on Keegan's status, maybe holding him out for the weekend is best for the marathon instead of the sprint. We're tossing all that around. The preliminary reports are really positive. Very, very normal. To get in the area of Tommy John, 90 percent of the rehab of Tommy John patients are associated with the shoulder because they do such a good job of replacing that ligament. The elbow is a hinge joint. It's pretty basic once that ligament is taking care of. It's like a link in the chain and that shoulder becomes a spot. And we think just coming back, that's a lot of workload after taking 20 months off. He did throw four goose egg innings for us on Friday. He's a prized commodity of this ball club and the success that it can have so he's a huge piece."
"The Georgia folks helped out, looked at him on Saturday. Structurally sound and all the things that you want to hear. We just decided to get back to town because we think we have the best folks in the world. They're looking at it today as we speak. Regardless of the outcome, and hopefully it's as mild as we believe that it is, still we have to sit down and talk about long-term. This is a marathon and not a sprint, and what do we do this weekend? I would think that regardless of what we wind up getting maybe later today or tomorrow on Keegan's status, maybe holding him out for the weekend is best for the marathon instead of the sprint. We're tossing all that around. The preliminary reports are really positive. Very, very normal. To get in the area of Tommy John, 90 percent of the rehab of Tommy John patients are associated with the shoulder because they do such a good job of replacing that ligament. The elbow is a hinge joint. It's pretty basic once that ligament is taking care of. It's like a link in the chain and that shoulder becomes a spot. And we think just coming back, that's a lot of workload after taking 20 months off. He did throw four goose egg innings for us on Friday. He's a prized commodity of this ball club and the success that it can have so he's a huge piece."
