Nick Krall on Elly's injury

During his appearance on the Reds Hot Stove League Show, Nick Krall discussed Elly playing with a partially torn quad last season.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So 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, towards the end of July,
he was dealing with a partial torn quad and he
has been rehabbing. He's at the ballpark, he was at
the ballpark today. He's been rehabbing over the last this
whole offseason. To his credit, he played every day. He

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tried to grind through it. He tried to play through it.
If you look at his defensive numbers, he made twelve
airs through roughly towards the end of July when he
got hurt, and then he made fourteen from the end
of July on. He's trying to play through it. He
wasn't able to do it as successful as possible. I
think he had a stretch of games where he had
nineteen homers and he didn't hit one until some point

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in September. That's going to affect him. That's gonna affect
everything he does. But to his credit, he was trying
to play every single day through it. He tried to
grind through it, and to the detriment of himself, he
didn't play up to where he was. But a large
part of that is because he's trying to play through
the injury. So I do think that you look at

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where he was up until that point where he got hurt,
and he was definitely better defensively. It's just he he
didn't finish the way he started