Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright played catch on Friday for the first time since undergoing surgery to trim cartilage in his throwing elbow in October, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
"It didn't sound like I had a baseball card stuck in the spokes of my bike when I threw," Wainwright said. "There was no pain. That's pretty good. That's good as far as signs go.
"I've been working out 100 percent now for the past two or three weeks, I was on a modified upper-body lifting schedule before that. Now all systems are go. Feels like a normal offseason again."
Wainwright won 20 games in 32 starts in the regular season, registering a 2.38 ERA and a 1.03 WHIP over 227 innings of work. He credited his postseason struggles to mechanical issues related to his release point, which caused him to opt for an offseason procedure.