Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto appears to have avoided a significant injury, according to his agent per The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cueto received an MRI on Tuesday as a precaution to look into elbow stiffness that kept him from making his latest start on Sunday. Manager Bryan Price didn't expect him to miss more than one start, but Cueto wanted to get a second opinion.
"I had the gut feeling that everything was going to be OK; I never thought it was going to be different," Cueto said via translator Tomas Vera to MLB.com. "But thank God after the test, everything came back good, like I thought it was going to be."
Cueto said he feels good and plans to play catch on Wednesday, according to the report.
"As he throws, if he's pain-free and the stiffness is out, I think it makes sense that we would follow that with a bullpen [session]," Price said. "If everything went well with that, we would in turn slot him in the rotation."
Cueto is 3-4 with a 3.03 ERA and 60 strikeouts in 65 1/3 innings of work this season.