The recent annals of Red Reporter archives are devoid of most things Matt McLain.
Cincinnati’s resident keystoner simply hasn’t done much, if anything, worth writing about for the longest of times, first due to an oblique injury that ended his 2023 debut season early and latest due to simple underperformance. Woeful, considerate underperformance.
There was a major shoulder injury sandwiched between those two significant development, and it remains to be seen just how much McLain has needed to work his way back on the fly at the big league level through that. The reality, or at least the last 60+ games of evidence, suggests he may well have deserved the opportunity to shake of that significant rust at the minor league level for a little bit, at least.