During Wednesday's episode of the Reds Hot Stove League radio show, president of baseball operations Nick Krall revealed that shortstop Elly De La Cruz played the second-half of the 2025 season with a partially torn quad.
"If you look at his year last year, and I think a lot of people don't know this, at the end of the year, like toward the end of July, he was dealing with a partial torn quad. And he has been rehabbing — he was at the ballpark today — he's been rehabbing this whole offseason," Krall said.