SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Giants slugger Barry Bonds is scheduled to arrive at training camp on Tuesday, and the ballclub has scheduled a 5:30 p.m. ET press conference at Scottsdale Stadium for him to speak to the media.

Bonds' much anticipated arrival is multifaceted. Giants trainers will be able to take a look at how the left-handed slugger is recovering from recent arthroscopic surgery to clean a torn meniscus in his right knee. And it's the first time Bonds will be facing the media since part of his grand jury testimony in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) investigation was leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle late last year.

As far as the baseball question is concerned, the Giants have said they intend to move the 40-year-old Bonds forward slowly with the objective of having him 100 percent ready by the time the team opens the season in San Francisco against the Dodgers on April 5.

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"Early in camp he's not going to do too much, but we'll see when he gets here and see what [trainer] Stan Conte wants to do," manager Felipe Alou said after pitchers and catchers worked out on Monday. "We hope he'll be fine, and if his knees are going to be better, then he's going to be better. I have no idea where he is right now in his rehab."

As far as his grand jury testimony, the Jose Canseco book or any questions about allegations that he used steroids, don't expect there to be any major revelations.

MLB.com has learned that Bonds will make a short statement saying that he is restricted by his attorneys in speaking about the ongoing BALCO case, which has yet to go to trial in San Francisco.

Instead, Bonds will take questions on his return to the field and his chase of the all-time career home run record.

Bonds finished last season with 703 homers, becoming only the third Major Leaguer to reach the 700 plateau, when he homered off Padres right-hander Jake Peavy on Sept. 17 in San Francisco. He's currently 11 homers behind Babe Ruth's 714 and 52 behind Hank Aaron's golden 755.

Bonds was among 10 ballplayers who testified in late 2003 in front of the federal grand jury investigating BALCO for tax fraud and distribution of steroids without prescriptions. Four men were indicted, including president Victor Conte, but no athlete was charged. Bonds received immunity for his testimony in a case that is expected to go to trial sometime later this year.

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The Chronicle reported that Bonds told the grand jury he may have inadvertently used steroids in a cream rubbed on his legs by his former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, who has been charged in the case.

Bonds is signed with the Giants for two more seasons. If he remains on his average pace of the last three years, hitting 45 homers a season, he'll pass Ruth sometime early this season and Aaron sometime in 2006.

Bonds' surgery on his torn meniscus was a little more than two weeks ago. He then had to have stitches repaired only days later. He also had the left knee cap scoped and cleaned this past October, just weeks after he concluded the 2004 season with a National League-leading .362 batting average, 45 homers and 101 runs batted in only 373 official at-bats.

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The more recent surgery was the second time Bonds has had to repair meniscus in his right knee since 1999.

This past week, Bonds has been in Los Angeles under the care of his orthopedic surgeon, Arthur Ting. The Giants are looking forward to examining him to judge for themselves how far he has progressed.

"I really won't have any true baseball prognosis on him until I see him," Stan Conte said.