4:21PM: May told DiComo and other reporters that his rough timeline for a return is 8-12 weeks.
12:51PM: Mets reliever Trevor May has been diagnosed with a stress reaction in the humerus of his throwing arm, tweets Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. He’ll be shut down from throwing for at least a month.
New York placed the righty on the 15-day injured list yesterday with what was initially termed triceps inflammation. Today’s diagnosis comes with an unfortunate timetable that’ll keep him out of action for a while. Even if he begins a throwing program around early June, he’ll need some time to build up arm strength before embarking upon a minor league rehab assignment. It wouldn’t be all that surprising if May isn’t ready for MLB action again until after the All-Star Break. It seems likely he’ll wind up on the 60-day injured list whenever the team needs to clear a spot on the 40-man roster.
May signed a two-year, $15.5MM deal with New York over the 2020-21 offseason. That was a surprisingly affordable price given his excellent three-run with the Twins between 2018-20. May was an effective and durable middle innings option for former skipper Luis Rojas during his first year in Queens. Over 62 2/3 innings, he posted a 3.59 ERA with a very strong 31.2% strikeout rate.
The early results in 2022 haven’t been good, as May has been tagged for eight runs in 8 1/3 innings. He only has five punchouts, and his swinging strike rate has plummeted from 15.3% last season to just 8.4% this year. May’s fastball and slider velocity haven’t changed much, but he’s seen marked dips in the raw spin on both offerings. That has corresponded to a little less depth on his breaking ball, although May’s heater has been the primary culprit for his early poor results.
Presumably, the injury has played a key role in the drop in May’s arsenal and performance. He conceded on Monday (via Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News) that he’d been pitching through arm discomfort since first suffering a triceps injury on April 11. The Mets are surely hopeful he’ll be back to vintage form after an extended rest period to again serve as an important high-leverage option late in the year.
Hopefully May will be back to his old self when he returns
May the 4th be with him.
Not a good May for May
April showers bring May displacement for 3 months.
The Mets have been one of the luckiest teams in the sport. Humerus really!
After being one of the unluckiest for years it’s about time something went right.
Mets (aka Rochester Rabbits) over Astros in 2049
Thankfully, all the bad luck so far in the entire season was transferred into good luck in the 6th inning. What a miserable season it has been for the Braves.
I never saw the Mets as particularly unlucky, and I don’t see them as lucky now. They’ve dealt with some big injuries, they’re just a deeply talented team. It’s that simple.
Humorous isn’t hard to spell
C’mon man, really?!
He had a Freudian slip for “hubris”.
REALLY? Trevor May has been shut down for four weeks on May 4?
That’s a solid correlation
That would never happen to young Harrison Bader.
On May 4th Trevor May may miss 4 weeks.
*ROCHESTER RABBITS
Why do you keep doing this??
There are 57 people who work at 48-team MLB. Please bear with us.
LMAO
It is a desperate plea for attention. Thank you for accommodating him.
It’s one of the dumbest repetitive comments ever.
It’s not a comment. It’s a protest. I absolutely refuse to attend any of their games until this change is made official.
4-6% increase in length of ligaments is the range you do not want to exceed or else it is going to snap. I think getting these measurements inning to inning so that way we have a better insight into how many pitches can be thrown.. It shroud be more about the measurement of the UCL than the number of pitches thrown. This could also help save the careers of some pitchers and maybe push others to the bullpen if they have electric stuff but can’t go more than 1 or 2 innings. Preventative damage control makes more sense than causing the damage and having to go through the costly surgery and recovery.
It’s not gonna be May after all.
Trevor May makes an excuse after everytime hes pitched bad. “My back hurt, my tricept hurt, that ball was foul, the umpire was bad”, the dude is a joke, just go out there and pitch and enough with the excuses
Remember May as one of the Phillies “famed” Baby Aces rotation long ago….Cosart…Pettibone…?
At least we can still dream on Abel, Painter and McGarry. For all the crap this farm system gets, that’s a very nice trio of arms.
May needed a stint on the IL way earlier.
I’m confused. The headline says this Trevor guy may be out for 4 weeks. Within the context of the story, it says he may be out until after the all star break.
Thanks for the update.
Bring Michael Fulmer home!
Mets gonna Mets
18-9
So Trevor’s gonna miss May?
Miss May’s gonna sew Trevor
It appear so. Trevor May be shut down for awhile. It’s definitely humerus, according to sources.
May was a horrible signing from day one and i cringed every time he entered the game!!! Shouldve re-signed Loup and added Tepera etc……
Not a horrible signing but I agree that Loup and Tepera are both better.
Manny, he has a straight fastball around 97 and has no effective offspeed pitch…Have you actually watched him this year and last year? and walks way too many batters……good riddance to him
Das EFX
This is absolutely Humerus!!
Oh no!!! Now he can’t give up 3 ER in 1 IP!!! How unfortunate!!
May hasn’t been very good this year, likely because he was dealing with a developing are injury. His loss though isn’t minor. He pitched in 1/3rd of their games so far and nearly 70 last year. He was expected to be an important part of their pen. You don’t want to over rely on someone like Ottavino at this stage of his career. Buck is good at managing pens, but he’s got to have the pieces to work with.
I’m thinking a JD Davis trade might be on the horizon.