Mets Notes: Marte, Reid-Foley, Senga

Starling Marte left Saturday’s 8-1 loss to the Cubs halfway via the second inning resulting from soreness in his proper knee, and he’ll endure an MRI on Monday to discover what has been a nagging drawback for the Mets outfielder.  As MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo writes, Marte has been battling knee discomfort for about three weeks, with the Mets giving Marte just a few additional off-days in that stretch to see if the additional relaxation might appropriate the issue.

“I assumed we’ve been doing a reasonably good job, particularly with our communication with him and him being trustworthy with me and all of us,” Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza instructed DiComo and different reporters.  “That’s why there’s been days the place he’s been off when he felt like he might have performed….However as of late, that knee continues to hassle him. We’ve simply received to attend and see what we’re coping with.”

The Mets don’t play on both Monday or Thursday this week, as they get a pair of off-day sandwiched round their two-game interleague sequence with the Yankees.  DiComo feels that this comparatively mild schedule would possibly permit the Mets to place Marte on the 10-day injured listing, which might each give him time to totally relaxation up whereas sitting out much less video games than he’d usually need to miss in a fuller schedule.  That mentioned, the Mets might additionally view these built-in off-days as an opportunity to let Marte relaxation with out the advantage of an precise IL placement, so he may not need to miss 10 full days’ price of motion.

It appears doubtless that the membership will first wait and see what the MRI says earlier than making a choice, as if checks reveal an precise harm, Marte will clearly need to miss time no matter any schedule.  Regardless of the dangerous knee, Marte’s manufacturing hasn’t been slowed down, as he’s hitting .304/.360/.457 with one house run over 50 plate appearances within the month of June.  Marte’s scorching bat has been one purpose the Mets have surged again into the playoff image, as New York has gained 12 of its final 16 video games.

One other Met headed for an MRI is Sean Reid-Foley, because the right-hander was positioned on the 15-day IL yesterday (retroactive to June 20) resulting from an impingement in his throwing shoulder.  The same harm sidelined Reid-Foley at the beginning of the season and prevented him from making his 2024 debut till April 22.  Speaking to the New York Post’s Mike Puma and different reporters yesterday, Reid-Foley described the newest harm as “form of the identical stuff — it’s form of within the entrance of the shoulder once more.   I don’t have X-ray imaginative and prescient or MRI imaginative and prescient, however I might say it’s most likely an impingement.”

Even with these shoulder issues bookending his season, Reid-Foley has been one of many Mets’ greatest relievers this season, with a 1.66 ERA and a 27.8% strikeout charge over 21 2/3 innings.  A 3.86 SIERA is probably a greater reflection of Reid-Foley’s manufacturing when factoring in his excessive 15.6% stroll charge and the nice fortune of his .255 BABIP, particularly since Reid-Foley is a grounder specialist (60.8% groundball charge).  Nonetheless, that bottom-line 1.66 ERA has nonetheless been a giant assist inside an total inconsistent New York bullpen, so dropping Reid-Foley for any size of time is a setback for the membership.

In different Mets harm information, Kodai Senga took an necessary step forward in his harm rehab, as he had a reside batting follow session of twenty-two pitches in the present day.  Senga is tentatively slated for an additional reside BP later this week, however he’ll first reconvene with the crew medical employees in New York.

It has been a protracted highway again for Senga, who hasn’t but pitched this season since struggling a reasonable capsule pressure his proper shoulder throughout Spring Coaching.  He had a reside BP session in late April and appeared to be progressing in direction of a return in late Might (as soon as his 60-day IL stint was over), however he then took time to work on some mechanical points, after which suffered a triceps harm that required a shutdown interval and a cortisone shot.

Senga had already been ruled out till after the All-Star break, and contemplating the quantity of ramp-up work it is going to take for him to be totally able to pitch, it might appear early-to-mid August could be the earliest we see the right-hander make his 2024 debut.  If the Mets can stick round within the wild card race, getting Senga again can be fairly a pleasant increase to the Amazins’ playoff probabilities, if he returns at something near his 2023 kind.