Canning (elbow) is throwing live batting practice Friday, Jeff Fletcher of The Orange County Register reports.
The 24-year-old began facing batters in May and continues to ramp up toward the start of the season. Canning was shut down with elbow issues in early March and received a series a biological injections, but he's been progressing nicely in his recovery and manager Joe Maddon recent said that he was very hopeful the right-hander would be healthy by Opening Day. Regardless of his short-term availability, the "chronic changes" to his UCL uncovered by a late February MRI could be a problem down the road.