BALTIMORE -- David Price threw 30 pitches in a bullpen session Friday at Camden Yards, and both he and manager John Farrell were happy with how everything seemed to go.
Price, on the disabled list with a left elbow strain since the start of the season, said he was happy he felt the way he did in his first time throwing off the mound.
"I felt good, really good," Price said. "I threw ... everything and felt good. First time off the mound. I feel good."
Farrell said the next steps in the process will be determined by how Price bounces back from this and the way he's feeling in the next few days.
"Thirty pitches; all pitches thrown today with good intensity," Farrell said. "We'll wait to see how he comes in tomorrow and checks out and how he feels Sunday. What we're going to determine [is] if the next bullpen is either Monday or Tuesday, and that will be based on how he comes out of the next couple of days."
Farrell said he liked that Price threw all of his pitches in the session. The left-hander will probably start throwing more as he's feeling stronger during this rehab.
But the skipper said the Red Sox still are not exactly sure the way this is going to play out with Price. That's just the way these situations go, Farrell said.
"I wish I could give you a template for these situations, and yet there isn't [one]," Farrell said. "It's case by case. [Price's work] was very encouraging. The next bullpen will have the up-and-down simulations to them, and then we'll re-evaluate after [that]."
Jeff Seidel