The lefty complained of elbow soreness after his last rehab start Friday and received an MRI and cortisone shot Monday. Manaea felt discomfort toward the end of a start where he allowed one run over 5 1/3 innings, with seven strikeouts, and didn't recover the next day as he expected.

Mets pitcher Sean Manaea, rehabbing from an oblique injury sustained during spring training, was recently diagnosed with a loose body in his left elbow, but the team doesn't believe the discovery should delay his return for long.

Sean Manaea was about a week away from making his season debut when another setback struck. An MRI taken Monday revealed a 7-millimeter loose body in Manaea’s left elbow. That’s the bad news. The good