By Peter Abraham and Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff

MINNEAPOLIS — Carl Crawford has yet to be examined by Dr. James Andrews, Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said today. That visit is expected to come in the next day or two.

General manager Ben Cherington said the injury is more of sprain than tendinitis. But others in the organization are concerned that it could be something worse.

"I haven’t heard any reason that there’s surgery, a surgical procedure being necessary. I haven’t heard that. Hope not," Valentine said.

Crawford is on the disabled list recovering from wrist surgery. The elbow became an issue earlier this month and Crawford returned to Boston for an MRI. He was cleared to start hitting in extended spring training games, but was shut down from throwing.

“The only thing I heard is he hadn’t been throwing in a couple of days and then he was shagging and he picked up a ball and kind of lobbed it in. He still felt something. That’s what raised concern," Valentine said.

“Sometimes it’s that you haven’t thrown in a few days and you didn’t warm up and you weren’t expecting to throw and you throw. It’s not like he’s gone out and tried to throw and said, ‘I can’t throw.’ I bet if this were the seventh game of the World Series and he had to advance it in, he could advance it forward.”

The visit to Andrews is apparently meant to confirm the original diagnosis.

“It’s a fact-finding mission, maybe that’s how I’ll categorize it,” Valentine said.