Flowers (hand) is ahead of schedule in his rehab and was observed hitting balls off of a tee Saturday, David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

EDGE Analysis

Flowers hit the DL with a fractured hand just after the All-Star break and was initially given a return timeline of 4-to-6 weeks. At this point, he appears to be trending toward the short end of that estimate, and the team intimated Saturday that Flowers could be back in the lineup in roughly two weeks.