Mets second baseman Robinson Cano made an early exit from Wednesday’s game due to what the team described as left quad tightness, according to multiple reports. After grounding out to end the third inning, Cano seemed pained after running to first base, and Adeiny Hechavarria took Cano’s spot at second base to begin the top of the fourth. According to The Athletic’s Tim Britton (Twitter link), infielder Luis Guillorme has been removed from Triple-A Syracuse’s game tonight, so the Mets could already be planning an injured list stint for Cano.
Losing Cano would represent the latest in a lengthy series of notable injuries for the Mets this season. The position-player side is particularly short-handed at the moment, with Michael Conforto (concussion), Brandon Nimmo (stiff neck), and Jed Lowrie (hamstring) all currently on the injured list, and Jeff McNeil was also out of tonight’s lineup with what appears to be a fairly minor hamstring issue.
McNeil’s status is of particular import if the Mets are looking at an IL absence for Cano, as McNeil would seem to be the most obvious candidate to slide over to second base. Neither Hechavarria or Guillorme offer much at the plate in regular second base duty, and while the outfield mix also isn’t exactly solid with Conforto and Nimmo sidelined, the Mets at least have some numbers in the form of converted infielders J.D. Davis and Dominic Smith, plus veterans Rajai Davis and Carlos Gomez.
An IL stint would be another disappointing turn in what has thus far been a rough return to New York for Cano. The 36-year-old has hit only .241/.287/.371 in his first 181 plate appearances as a Met, with an 82 wRC+ that would stand the worst of his distinguished career.
Cano-worms
When it rains it pours
Weather Girls say… It’s raining Mets. Hallelujah! It’s raining Mets!!
Really? It’s the Mets. Has it ever been just a tinkle with them?
While kelenic crushes. Thanks Mets!
Kelenic was clearly in that deal since Diaz was. They could more than likely turn around and trade Diaz by himself for around A package like Dunn and Kelenic.
Thank you! While cano sucks much more than anyone would have thought, he wasn’t the main piece of that trade. Diaz was the big chip. Couldn’t agree more JD
Yeah, but why didn’t the Mets just find a different way to unload the Bruce and Swarzak contracts and sign Kimbrel? Either way they essentially lost a draft pick, either Kelenic or the 2019 pick which is way later than 6th overall.
Who else in the world would take on those contracts? Kimbrel is nowhere as good as Diaz anymore. There is a reason No team has sacrificed a pick on him.
Cano is OLD in baseball years. Mets fans should expect him to be on the DL quite a bit in the next 4 years.
With Cespedes, Cano, Nimmo, Conforto, Lowrie, Lugo, Avilan, Smith, Vargas, and Wilson out and the team struggling, is it time to throw in the white towel on 2019 and make some trades to improve the team in the future?
Why do the Mets always do this? Hire old, tired, injury prone veterans? Analytics has proven this approach wrong, wrong, wrong!
in Cano’s case, because they wanted Diaz
Can’t believe Seattle gave up Diaz. Just shows you how bad they wanted Cano gone.
They didn’t “give up” Diaz to get rid of Cano. Kelenic and Dunn are both top 100 prospects and doing very well in the minors right now.
Mlb1225 the Mets did have to take Cano in the deal to get Diaz.
And he wasn’t injury prone.
Gee, maybe he was right about jogging to first?
lol
Talk about karma or baseball gods, whatever you want to call it.
Lol he ran hard yesterday, like a player always should, and he’s hurt hahaha.
Lol BVW….come get us!
Must of hurt it when he left home plate and ran straight to the dugout on a ground ball to 2nd.
See what happens when you run?
Hmmmm….something doesn’t smell right
That’s just New York.
cut him
It’s not even June. He stinks yes. But let’s see the next couple months before you push him overboard.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but I never understood those who predicted that the Mets would contend this year. They had some very talented players, but so many had extensive injury histories. It just didn’t seem likely that they wouldn’t have SEVERAL players go down at inopportune times.
Luckely for the Mets, the Braves are just as bad and have no future…unless they decide to get an ace and a few relievers.
What?
yeah…no future with all those young studs and prospects…
winning championships constitutes future, not having a bunch of unproven players and a bunch of average arms harnassing the rotation and bullpen. I don’t know about you, but winning division titles is no longer exciting when you exit in the first round every year you are in the postseason.
Sometimes you Cano when a signing is going to be bad. Sometimes you can’t. Hasn’t done much in a Mets uni yet. Definitely not the same guy he was in that other NY borough.
Was possibly on steroids in that other borough.
On the bright side they won’t really miss him in the lineup.
Even more than the Yankees, before the season started I thought the Mets were excessively deep at 2B with Robinson Cano, Jed Lowrie, Jeff McNeil and Danny Espinosa. How injuries plague this team.
I will stick by my assertation that the Mets hoisted the Mariners. Dunn and Kelenic are good prospects, but just those two for Diaz was a bargain. As for the other half of the deal, Cano has fallen off a bit, but still will probably provide plenty more value then both Bruce and Swarzak, while not costing terribly more and not being a burden for a New York team contract-wise.
The first time Cano runs hard out of box he gets hurt. Interesting as he was been blasted in media. I wonder if he is really hurt. The timing seems very odd…..no? We now know Cano is not a high character guy from his PED suspension, watching him play 160 games a year or so w/ Yankees year in and year out (peds help?) he is a tough player. He is older and now no Peds to help him play every game I wonder if this is payback for the backlash of the last weeks news stories. And remember, the Yankees low called him. They needed to seem like they wanted him back it fans would revolt but, they knew him better then anyone she even traded his Bff Melky to help him stay focused (Melky got popped for peds).
His stint with the Mets I feel is going to seal his legacy more then his PED suspension. He has guarantee contract Which I still don’t believe cannot be ripped up for PED cheating-what is mlb doing? They must know that a lot of player use and the mlbpa would walk out if they tried to add it. But, it just shows you how greedy the league is. All major sports. 1 time cheating suspension 2nd time lifetime ban or at least contract terminated. The “I just took a supplement from GNC is bull as the league and products have approved products with labels stating it. I guess Arod suing the yanks was too much bad press for mlb.
But- again I question the timing of Cano injury. Fake by him or a “ quite suspension” by team. And at worst- a broken player the Mets owe $80 mil or so. Just to get a reliever for a team who will not make the playoffs as Wilson’s will not add major pieces by trade. If Girardi takes job as manager you know he has no options as an older old school manager. But, he is what they need- if they had the right roster. And he will put up w/cano if he stays off IL as he did w/ yanks. But, Cano laziness is beyond saving his body to play 162 games. He just gives up on every grounder now. I guess he doesn’t know about fielding errors. Moron- But- a product of guaranteed contracts that are Ironclad!!!!! If Arod can’t get contract ripped up then it will never happen unless a player kills someone in front of Manfred. But, mlbpa will protest.
Wilpons- time to sell team. Get a real GM and a real manager. Do it for the fans.
Wow.