1:16pm: It seems the injury is not viewed as a serious one. James Wagner of the New York Times tweets that Syndergaard could potentially return after the minimum absence. (The placement was backdated to May 26th.) He’ll wear a splint for the time being but could try throwing again this weekend to gauge his progress.
12:32pm: The Mets announced that righty Noah Syndergaard has been placed on the 10-day DL. He was diagnosed with a strained ligament in his right index finger, per the announcement.
At present, it’s not clear how long the Mets will go without their co-ace. But any absence is most unwelcome given the tightly packed group of contenders in the NL East.
The real question here, of course, is whether this injury holds any potential for long-term concern. That’s simply not apparent based upon what is known publicly at this point. Prior to the team’s announcement, after all, there was no indication that Syndergaard was dealing with a problem at all.
There are also more immediate needs to be dealt with. The New York organization is going to have to scramble to account for Syndergaard’s scheduled start tomorrow. That could mean that Jason Vargas takes the ball on short rest, per Mike Puma of the New York Post (Twitter link), and/or that the club tries to find a fresh arm from its minor-league ranks.
Thus far in 2018, Syndergaard has been in fine form after missing much of the prior season with a lat injury. He owns a 3.06 ERA with 10.6 K/9 and 1.8 BB/9 through 64 2/3 innings, with a typically sturdy 47.7% groundball rate. He is throwing his fastballs in the upper-nineties range we’ve come to expect and carries a personal-high 15.0% swinging-strike rate.
And the hits just keep on coming!
lol
lol
What’s so funny?
The Mets should just Mets this whole thing and let him play through it.
So you want him to Met it?
they have no pitching, so know they have to find a pitcher
Hanley time
Special kind of stupid aren’t you
Ouch, brilliant internet trolling right there
40% of the opening day roster is now on the DL. The new medical staff, same as the old medical staff.
Or maybe it’s not due to the medical staff or anything beyond bad luck.
Or maybe it’s due to a freak accident when he was blow drying his hair in the clubhouse.
Jealous?
Mets will be careful with him.This could help them latter in the season, as I would keep him on an innings limit this year. He is too valuable
Literally half of the opening day roster has either been to, or is currently on the DL. And it’s still May.
At some point it stops being a coincidence or bad luck. Year in and year out with this team. Whatever changes they made to the medical staff, it wasn’t nearly enough.
I’m sure the Reds would give the Mets quite a bit of money to take Homer Bailey off their hands
Yes indeed. Reds would be thrilled to pay the remainder of his 2018 salary plus the $5M for his 2020 buyout in exchange for the Mets absolute worst minor league prospect.
Bartolo back to NY!!!
That has my vote!
Maybe toss the Wilpons into that volcano to appease the baseball gods.
He will NOT play for cheap Wilpon’s again. Loyalty went out the door when they neglected him on the last round.
Besides, Colon wants to WIN. To get to the post season means a lot. That ain’t happening in Flushing.
If he wants to win, why’d he sign in Arlington. If you’re gonna troll, at least think about it first
He wants regular season wins to get the record. I doubt post-season means much to him. Plus it’s not like he has a lot of teams interested in signing him.
I know this is possibly unrelated but when is Sandy Alderson going to be held responsible for a depleted minor league system and a half-ass, always injured major league team?
Sandy must have compromising photos of the Wilpons to have kept his job this long.
Actually Fred mumbles and Jeff spends his day looking in the mirror to be sure that his Hairclub for Men hair piece is perfect.
its simple matt harvey isn’t hurt.
give michael strikeout fordo for harvey
That is the greatest idea in the history of all ideas. You should be a baseball GM. You’d win exec of the year
thanks .. call the mets tell them im ready to help. it looks like i can’t do any worst. no one there including cesp can hit . well maybe nimmo he looks like pete rose. ask yourself “how do a pitcher win if you get no hits” . cant can they…
or .. jason vargas has been very impressive this year give him two hames a week.
sorry.. was typing fast that should be two games a week.
He said he was fine.
the murphy’s law metropolitans
Probably got hurt hitting. I feel bad for him, his career is in the hands of the Mets crack medical team
Probably too late to bring back R.A. Dickey. He could eat innings that are needed to help an overworked bullpen. If he was in shape he would probably be the 4th starter in this rotation.
John Lackey is STILL available.
best news ever syndergaard on dl… harvey traded…matz just taken out for a finger injury… LOL !!! karma for a dumb ass trade of harvey….
Teheran for Nimmo.
sweet idea..
“Not considered serious one”.. allow me to translate from Metsese to English:
Syndergaard will have to learn to pitch with 4 fingers