Gavin is feeling better

Merkin:

The plan for Floyd is to start tossing the baseball in late December, and then after getting married on Jan. 2, he’ll start throwing off the mound in mid- to late January. Floyd pointed out that there never really was a diagnosis for his pain, and he didn’t rule out something remotely related to pitching mechanics.

“You never know,” Floyd said. “But I’ve thrown across my body my whole life, so I don’t understand how it would be mechanical. It was really … it got to the point where it was on my mind every pitch.

“They tried to narrow it down what it was. We don’t know what actually caused it, but time was the thing to heal it, and when I got time, it felt a ton better.”