MRI on Marlins' Christian Yelich shows bulging disk

An MRI on Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich showed a bulging disk in his lower back, per MLB.com.

Yelich is on the 15-day disabled list, and the team is confident that, despite the MRI findings, Yelich will be ready to return to the lineup at the end of the 15 days, in early May.

"It should be alright after a few days if I just stay on it and take care of it," Yelich said, per the Miami Herald. "We didn't really know what it was last year, what was causing it. We kind of had an idea. The MRI kind of confirmed what everybody was thinking."

"It's pretty much the same thing, slightly less [pain] this time compared to last year. It's not nearly as bad, but there's still discomfort, not a whole lot of range of motion. It just takes time. This is about day five or six now. It's starting to get a little bit looser, feel a little bit better. I have to go through all the progression stuff that will get me back on the field."