Reds McClain slowed by oblique

Reds 2B missed the last month of his amazing 2023 rookie campaign with a right oblique strain and almost immediately into 2024 Spring Training Camp, he has the same injury.

"I was going at it too hard too early," McLain said on Tuesday. "I didn’t want to go through that again, so I told them it was bothering me. I took the foot off the gas for a couple days."

McLain underwent an MRI examination on Monday, offering a glimmer of hope. The results indicated no fresh strain in the oblique and confirmed that his previous injury had fully healed.

"Which is great news," manager David Bell said. "But it doesn't change the fact that he had a symptom, so we'll back him down for five to seven days and treat it and [do] a couple other protocols, and then hopefully get them back out there, back on track."
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"This next five days will be really important [to] let that irritation go away, and we'll just start building him back up," Bell said.