Manager Derek Shelton said Sunday that Bednar (lat) played catch for the second straight day and that everything felt good, Alex Stumpf of MLB.com reports.
Bednar was shut down from throwing activities March 4 after feeling tightness in his lats, but the right-hander appears to be on the right track in his rehab. If Bednar is forced to miss time to start the season, Aroldis Chapman figures to fill the closer role while the former progresses through his recovery.
Jim Leyland was in his prime form on the podium Monday afternoon at baseball’s Winter Meetings. He was a Hall of Famer, having been voted in Sunday by the 16-member Contemporary Era Committee, and he was weaving stories and telling jokes.
“About 10 minutes to 7 [o’clock], I left the family room and went up to lie in bed for a little bit, thinking about it, figuring that I probably would not make it,” Leyland recalled as he described waiting for a call from the Hall. “My wife and my son were coming up the stairs just when I got the call. My wife and my son heard a lady’s voice on the other end. My wife said, ‘Who is that?’
