41.   Just two weeks after undergoing surgery to remove bone chips from his pitching elbow, Mulholland has been cleared to make a rehabilitation start Friday at Class AAA Phoenix.

42.   Larry the Legend then was found to have a bone chip in his left front foot, and was withdrawn from the Derby.

43.   Last season, he spent more than two months on the disabled list because of bone chips in his right elbow.

44.   Last fall, he underwent surgery to remove bone chips from his right elbow.

45.   Likewise, right-hander reliever Russ Springer is expected to be at full-strength after having bone spurs and bone chips removed from his right elbow.

46.   Mondesi had about a dozen bone chips removed from the elbow, but there was no ligament damage.

47.   New York Mets catcher Todd Hundley underwent surgery to reconstruct a ligament and remove bone chips in his right elbow.

48.   Now they apparently will sign right-hander Sasaki, who had bone chips removed from his pitching elbow last summer, to be their closer.

49.   On his way back from knee surgery last spring, he developed more bone chips and a bone spur and had them removed in an operation Sunday in Cypress.

50.   Ornery by nature, with bone chips floating in his knee and ankles, he makes a tempting target.