Fernando Tatis, Jr. returned to the field on Monday for some light baseball activity as he works his way back from a fractured left wrist.

"Any day on the field," Tatis said as he walked through the dugout into the clubhouse, "is a good day."

Tatis made throws across the diamond for about 30 minutes. He simulated taking ground balls by holding the baseball in his left hand, going through his fielding motion and then throwing the ball to first base.

"He was out at shortstop today, making some throws to first base, and he's doing a lot of conditioning, trying to do as much activity as he possibly can," Bob Melvin said. "He's doing a lot of stuff ... but the last thing will be putting a bat in his hands."

Tatis underwent surgery on March 16 to repair a fractured scaphoid bone in his left wrist. That operation, the San Diego Padres said, would come with a recovery timetable of approximately three months.