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There's the batting average, the ability to get to balls in the outfield, and the first-to-third jump on the base paths. But another way to know that Jason Bay's knees - which helped contribute to his downturn offensively in 2007 - are healthy is to check out his stolen base total. The number might be just three, at least since he joined the Red Sox, but that's in just three weeks. And he had only four in all of 2007.
"It was a tough time pushing off before, and just the fact that I am confident enough myself to go do that speaks volumes for the fact that I feel like I'm healthy," Bay said. "If I didn't have that strength or that push-off, I wouldn't be doing that.
"I go up there now and I feel like I have that, it's like that quickness, that first move, that first step. Which in stealing bases is everything."
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