ANAHEIM — Robert Stephenson is back. Again.
This time, he’s hoping it’s for good.
A day after Stephenson pitched in a game for the first time in 2½ months, he was somewhat reserved in celebrating the end of what has been nearly two full seasons of rehab.
“It’s definitely not 100%,” Stephenson said. “It obviously feels good, but there’s definitely times that I’ll have to just be careful with it and know that I can’t push it and really just let things go if it doesn’t feel good. Yesterday was kind of one of those days where I felt like I didn’t want to let it go too much, just to be careful with it. But having this offseason to help it fully recover in the next year, I can come back and be completely back to 100%.”
Asked for what he hopes to get out of the final five weeks of the season,