00:00Zach Wheeler last night threw 61 pitches in his rehab start the last time we spoke you provided
00:05an update from your perspective has that timeline is that still on track I think they have wiggle
00:11room here the 30-day rehab clock would enable them to give him one more at least I think if
00:16they want so a fifth one think that they can do that so I haven't spoken to anyone this morning
00:21to know whether that's been talked about or whether it's still hey let's read and react
00:26after the next one I mean it was mixed again last night like you know the results were were pretty
00:32good overall you know he gave up the one run that was it not a whole lot of hard contact
00:38but again
00:39the velocity wasn't there you know I think when I talked to you guys the last time was about a
00:44week
00:45or 10 days ago and he I went to his first rehab start he I thought he pitched very well
00:50I walked
00:51out of there thinking like if you didn't know his story and you didn't know the surgery that he had
00:55you wouldn't have really known the only the only thing that would have tipped you off was
01:00the velocity wasn't peak Zach Wheeler velocity but okay it was a cool night in Lehigh Valley
01:05it was essentially his first spring training start not unusual for your velocity to not be there
01:11in your first one well he just had his third one and it's consistent it's consistently 92 93 I think
01:19he touched 94 once last night that's not Zach Wheeler you know he's more in the 95 96 range
01:26it's down two or two or three ticks from where it normally is and I think the question that now
01:33needs
01:33to be asked and no one knows the answer but you know is this is this who he is at
01:39least at the
01:39beginning coming out of the surgery where he's he's not he's not the mid-90s Zach Wheeler that we've
01:45we've known all these years
01:46he's not the mid-90s Zach Wheeler that we've seen the mid-90s Zach Wheeler that we've seen the mid
01:47-90s
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