SANTO DOMINGO.\u2014<\/strong> The surprising drop in performance of Dominican Elly De La Cruz during the 2025 season already has an explanation. Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations, Nick Krall, revealed that the shortstop played the second half of the schedule with a partial quadriceps tear<\/strong>, an injury he had been dealing with since the end of July.<\/p>\n\n\nDe La Cruz, who came from a spectacular 2024 campaign in which he hit 25 home runs and stole 67 bases \u2014MLB leader\u2014, suffered an evident statistical setback in 2025, recording an OPS of .776 and showing defensive decline, especially in the last two months of the season.\n\nAccording to Krall, the injury had a direct impact on his performance.\n\n\n “At the end of July I was dealing with a partial tear in my quadriceps. He has been rehabilitating all winter,” explained the executive on the Reds Hot Stove<\/em> podcast. “Even so, he played every day and tried to hold on.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe wear and tear was clearly reflected in his defensive numbers: he went from +14 Outs Above Average (OAA)<\/strong> in 2024 (fifth among all shortstops) to \u20133 OAA<\/strong> in the 2025 campaign. His offense was also affected, with his worst slugging percentages of the year in August (.319) and September (.370).\n\nDespite the injury, De La Cruz played in all 162 games of the team, showing remarkable physical endurance and commitment.\n\n\n \u201cIf you look at where he was before he got injured, he was improving a lot defensively. He just couldn\u2019t finish the year in the same way,\u201d Krall added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nLooking ahead to next season, one of the unknowns will be whether Cincinnati will modify its game plan, giving it more days off or even evaluating positional changes in order to maintain its health and offensive impact. Source: MlB.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SANTO DOMINGO.\u2014 The surprising drop in performance of Dominican Elly De La Cruz during the 2025 season already has an explanation. Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations, Nick Krall, revealed that the shortstop played the second half of the schedule with a partial quadriceps tear, an injury he had been dealing with since the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":491944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-491943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-23Yz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/01k59wknkff68sastjww.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/01k59wknkff68sastjww.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Full recovery expected by 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe Reds are confident that the Dominican will be completely healthy for Spring Training, with the goal of resuming the upward trend he had shown until mid-2025.\n\n\n
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