{"id":606690,"date":"2026-03-05T00:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606690\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:26:29","slug":"hunter-greene-avoids-worst-after-elbow-injury-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606690\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Greene avoids worst after elbow injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/hunter-greene\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Greene<\/a> is \u00a0reportedly dealing with an elbow concern. However, the pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlieG__\/status\/2029228080347398533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">provided an update<\/a> that downplayed any UCL damage, via Charlie Goldsmith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter Greene says no UCL damage,\u201d Goldsmith wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Any time the word \u201celbow\u201d is mentioned when discussing a pitcher there is often reason for serious concern. Greene&#8217;s update is obviously of the utmost importance, though.<\/p>\n<p>Reds manager <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/terry-francona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Francona<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CharlieG__\/status\/2029231381340156350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">also commented on the situation<\/a>, via Goldsmith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just not recovering the way he\u2019s comfortable,\u201d Francona said of Greene. \u201cThe ball is coming out pretty good. You\u2019re asking a guy to go out there and throw as hard as he can. We need to make sure he\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Reds will continue to monitor and provide updates on Greene&#8217;s injury status.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Greene dealing with elbow concern<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying, but the Reds need Hunter Greene in the starting rotation. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/why-hunter-greene-upset-paul-skenes-2026-nl-cy-young-race\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greene could be a National League Cy Young candidate<\/a> in 2026 if healthy. It remains to be seen how much time he will miss as a result of this concern, but it does seem as though he avoided the worst possible scenario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/reds-news-cincinnatis-rotation-gets-massive-praise-ahead-of-2026-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Reds&#8217; rotation is deep<\/a>. Andrew Abbott, Nick Lodolo and Brady Singer are all reliable starters. Chase Burns and Rhett Lowder are among the pitchers competing for the No. 5 rotation spot. With that being said, Greene is the ace of the rotation. The pitching will lead the Reds in 2026, and Hunter Greene is the unquestioned leader of the starting rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Hunter Greene is \u00a0reportedly dealing with an elbow concern. However, the pitcher provided an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,2102,4,3410,536,151,1175],"class_list":{"0":"post-606690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-cincinnatireds","12":"tag-hunter-greene","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-injury","15":"tag-reds","16":"tag-spring-training","17":"tag-terry-francona"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116173733602870297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}