Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was asked Thursday to outline Matt Kemp‘s timetable for recovery from surgery on his left ankle last October. It’s one of the most burning questions in camp: When will Kemp, who hasn’t been cleared to run since the surgery, be able to resume full baseball activities?

“There’s really no true schedule, I think, with Matt other than when the ankle’s healed he gets to do more,” Mattingly said. “He’s able to hit. He’s hitting off the tee. He’s going to be able to do a lot of things. But included in those things is not going to be running outside. That’s a pretty important part of what he does. Until that ankle lets us know that he can move forward, you can’t really do a whole lot different.”

Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire has been pleased with Kemp’s swings in the batting cage, Mattingly said. Kemp has been able to lift weights normally with his upper body, something he wasn’t able to do all last year while he dealt with a surgically repaired left shoulder. There is some optimism early in camp that Kemp’s power could return to its 2009-12 levels, when he averaged 29 home runs a season.

But, Mattingly said, “until the doctors tell us that (Kemp’s ankle) is totally healed, we don’t really have a schedule for him.”