Doctors plan to re-evaluate the injury in three weeks.
By then, the minor-league teams will be finished playing for the season, meaning Woodard will not have anywhere to go for a rehabilitation assignment. Because he would need to build up his pitching arm again after such a layoff, it appears certain that Woodard will not pitch again until next season. He has made three starts since then and has been icing the injury after just about every workout. In recent days he has worn a cast. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Aug. 15, 1999.