It does cause some awkward times at the end of August, ... We had to send out a couple of kids we liked at the end of the month on our pitching staff and we had to bring up some other guys the next day.
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Until he gets to the point that he decides he wants to play, I don't think anybody can guess when or if he would come back. There's no deal that that will happen, no preconceived approach to that issue.Tim Purpura
The freedoms we give him - he has used them to our advantage, ... Baseball can be somewhat monotonous, day after day, the same places, the same people. We get into a grind. I think to break up that grind may be a positive for him.
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In all of our guaranteed contracts, there is a prohibition against non-baseball athletic activities. Now, the salary that he was paid for this year and the terms on his guaranteed contract essentially expired at the end of the season, so there's really no prohibition, per se, at this point against it. But, obviously, it has the potential to impact his ability to play next year.
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It's going to be a day-to-day thing. You want to get him rehabbed, but you want to get an idea of where he stands. It's not like we're going to be in position where we'll hold him back from the activity if he could do the activity.
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We've given Roger the freedom to have the opportunity to be with his family, and travel apart form the club. That's something that, from what I understand, other clubs are not offering and we are.
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We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'
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