Mets starter David Peterson will get an x-ray on his left foot after being struck by a ball there, manager Buck Showalter told reporters (including Tim Healey of Newsday). Peterson tossed two innings in the Mets 15-4 win over Miami today.
Peterson isn’t expected to crack New York’s opening day rotation, although there’s a good chance he’d be one of the first options they called on in the event of an injury to any of the other starters. We’re obviously short on detail until the results of Peterson’s x-ray come back, but any serious injury would be a blow to the Mets’ pitching depth. Peterson worked to a 3.83 ERA over 105 2/3 innings for the Mets last year, combining a 27.8% strikeout rate with a 10.6% walk rate. The 27-year-old does have minor league options remaining, so he could either operate as a starter at Triple-A or out of New York’s bullpen. The Mets do have solid pitching depth behind their projected rotation of Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Kodai Senga, Carlos Carrasco and Jose Quintana, with Peterson, Tylor Megill and Joey Lucchesi all shaping up as solid depth options. [UPDATE May 5: Peterson’s x-rays were inconclusive, and he will now get a CT scan, Showalter told Healey and other reporters.]
Here’s a couple of other injury notes from around the game:
- Royals starter Ryan Yarbrough is dealing with a “slight groin strain” that doesn’t appear to be too serious, according to Anne Rogers of MLB.com. Yarbrough is scheduled to throw a bullpen session tomorrow to see how he feels. Yarbrough tossed 80 innings of 4.50 ERA ball for the Rays last year across nine starts and 11 relief appearances. Tampa Bay designated Yarbrough for assignment and then non-tendered him this winter, and he latched on with the Royals on a one-year, $3MM deal. The leftie owns a career 4.33 ERA over five seasons in the bigs, all for the Rays.
- Pirates left-hander Jarlin Garcia left today’s 4-3 loss to the Phillies with what the team describes as left arm tightness, Justice delos Santos of MLB.com relays. Garcia gave up four earned runs on a walk and four hits in 1/3 of an inning of work. Unsurprisingly, the language used to describe the injury is very vague, and the outcome could range from a serious injury to nothing at all, and we should know more once the Pirates have evaluated him. Garcia joined the Pirates on a one-year, $2.5MM deal this winter. He’d been a successful member of the Giants bullpen for the past few seasons, working to a 2.84 ERA over 152 innings of work between 2020-22. Like many southpaws, he worked especially well against left-handed hitters, restricting them to a .192/.245/.364 line in 2022, against a .275/.327/.450 line against right-handed hitters. Rule 5 pick Jose Hernandez is the only other left-handed reliever currently projected to be on the Pirates active roster to start the year, although the team does have a number of non-roster invitees, including Caleb Smith, Daniel Zamora and Rob Zastryzny, who could come into the picture should Garcia’s tightness turn into anything that puts him in doubt for opening day.
Wow!
Omg I just got a brain tumor removed yesterday.
Not funny to joke about, maybe it will happen to you
Anything can be funny. Lighten up Francis.
Carlos Carrasco needs to be off this team. Hes no good and makes an excuse after every time he pitches lousy. “I couldnt pitch well because of the pitch clock” or “I had tightness today”, etc. Peterson should be in Carrasco’s spot in the rotation with Megill as the backup starter. Billy Eppler,the worst GM in baseball, struck again by taking on Carrasco’s 12 million dollar option. From Ruf, Naquin, Vogelbach, to Verlander and Robertson, to not trading for Josh Hader or signing Brad Hand, overpaid for Nimmo, Diaz, etc. I mean, who gives a 40 year old pitcher coming off of 2 missed seasons 80 million dollars? Robertson is gonna be terrible this year, hes too old and looked finished by playoff time. Terrible front office with an unlimited budget will still give you success. The difference is that they have spend enough money where they should have about 130 wins, but they will end up with around 90 wins and squek in a wildcard spot
I agree with everything you say (and I don’t dislike the Mets at all) except the 90 wins part. I doubt it will be that high.
How is someone who won the Cy Young a waste of Money?
@BrewCrewFan You dont give a 40 year old pitcher 80 million. They could of sign Taijuan Walker for 4 years, younger, and more controllable prime years as an example. Verlander has been shown to be unreliable, hence him missing 2 out of the previous 3 seasons. Waste of money. 40 year olds are bound to breakdown
@LFG, up until Verlander’s TJ surgery he had one season since his rookie year that he was limited to only 20 starts. With the 9 seasons prior to that being 30 or more starts and the 4 seasons following being 30 or more. The man just won a CY Young and aside from his TJ Surgery has been an absolute workhorse and poster boy for durability amongst SPs. I’d have to say the fact that he put himself through the pain of surgery, recovery, and rehab at age 37 it is just further testament of the man’s will to b on the mound. Which kind of seems to b the case seeing as he just won a CY Young and had one of best seasons of his career the first year back. But hey they could ve signed Walker who in 10 seasons has never started 30 games and has been injured much more often. Seems as tho you are throwing darts blind….
Verlander has a couple of rings. Walker doesn’t. And considering he just came off a Cy Young year, I’d roll the dice and give him the money for just two years.
@lfgmets
Arent you the guy that said end of the season that Peterson has no right to be on a major league roster let alone in the starting rotation? If not my bad. I am not upset with Carrasco as your number 4/5 pitcher.. You need atleast 7 starters for the season and without him you are at best 6 with a major wildcard in Luchessi as there really isnt another quality starter in the minors.
Regarding Eppler when it comes to trades he is way overmatched and doesnt know how to trade his way out of a paperbag so you have no argument there but regarding this offseason what would have been your plan?
For outfield, Nimmo would have gotten that and potentially more from other teams (he had an offer in hand from the giants after getting spurned by judge but details unknown guessing not that far off from mets offer). If you didnt sign him who are you signing? Bellinger? Kiermaier? Maybe you are trading for reynolds from the pirates and with their wants and Epplers record for trades baty peterson and probably mauricio is going to the pirate at the minimum. Nimmo played his market beautifully as he knew the major drop off from him and judge for any of.
For Verlander, who is your co-ace/number 2 after scherzer are you shelling out 200M for degrom? Are you signing Bassit to be your number 2? Perhaps Rondon who yes is younger but has a more injuries and less length of success so that one is 50/50 to me. I do like that is only a 2 year deal and gives you future flexibility if you move on from Verlander / Scherzer
Diaz is younger than any closer and was by far the best closer that was a free agent with a lot of teams with money to spend needing closers. That and they had literally no bullpen outside of drew smith. and to not have him test the market you have to overpay a little. You think if the Yankees overpaid for judge last offseason at maybe 250 or even 300 million they would have saved atleast 60 million.
The rest of the bullpen people were throwing crazy dollars left and right especially if you have closing experience so any of the right handers were pick your poison. I do think they should have gotten one of the better lefties along with brooks. So i dont hate the moves but i dont love them either.
If you were GM what would you have REALISTICALLY have done. (ie dont say you would have made nimmo take a QO and sign for that or gotten verlander for 25M 1 yr. 5 yr 40M for Diaz). If anything Eppler did what everyone expected any gm to do this offseaon.
I still think Cohen’s master plan is to have his redevelopment and new casino near citifield done in about 3-4 year and will be done with his flexing of dollars and bringing things back to earth some as i think thats when the current CBA runs out and a lot of money is off the books for the mets. So he will have an entire different revenue source with the option to make a huge profit on the mets as they will be worth a lot more than when he bought them if only for inflation and being a ny team.
@Roll Nimmo got 180 million dollars to play the outfield. Not much power, injury prone, and hes probably not gonna play CF after about 2 more seasons. You dont give 180 million is a corner outfielder thats around a league average hitter. I would of rather they sign Andrew Benitendi for less than half of that price or took a flyer on Bellinger.
Regarding the bullpen, the only relievers that they have that are any good are Diaz and Ottavino. Robertson is too old, Drew Smith belongs in double-a (his stats dont tell the whole story, he stinks), and im not too fond of Brooks Raley as our lefty specialist. We had to deal with Joely Rodriguez coming in and blowing games all year last year. I wanted Brad Hand, whos been a consistently reliable lefty outside of a one month bad stretch in the past 5 years. Since they missed out on Hader last year, Hand would have been a good consolation prize.
As for the starting rotation, I think you are thinking of someone else, I’ve always wanted Peterson in the rotation. I was complaining about Carrasco all year last year. He pitches well vs bad teams, and vs the good teams he gets absolutly destroyed. After every bad start he makes up an excuse. Joey Luchessi belongs in double-A, I have absolutly no faith in him. Money that was given to Senga, Carrasco, Quintana, and Verlander add up to about 200 million dollars in commitments to a questionable rotation. My rotation if I was the GM would of been Scherzer, Walker (80 mil 4 yrs), trade for Gioloto, Peterson, and sign Evoldi, with Megill as our new Trevor Williams/spot-starter hybrid
More kudos to you LFGMets, I appreciate true fans of a team who can deal with reality and not look thru rose-colored glasses at everything they do. I am a Mariners fan and I am guilty of doing it myself, but I try to work against that bias we all have. I can tell you do a great job reigning that in, and that makes your posts valuable reading for the general baseball fan interested in the Mets. I can tell we are getting facts and not a ‘homer’ analysis. Thank you.
@Ignorant Son-of-a-b I watch every Met game that I can, which is around 150/162 games per year, I dont just turn off the TV when they are getting blownout either. The problem with most fans is that they are content with what they have. There is always room for improvement. For example, 2 years ago the Mariners won over 90 games and barely missed the playoffs. The team got lucky that year because they definetly were not constructed as a 90 win team and the GM knew that. Instead of doing nothing, the Mariners went out and spent money. Won around the same number of games but thats only because 2 years ago that expectations were heavily exceeded. There roster last year was a roster of a 90+ win team. In the Mets case, an unlimited budget will make any team win because bad contracts dont affect them as much as it would a small market team. I’d say just about half the team is made up of bad contracts. As a fan, you need to call out the moves your team makes so they can improve and be better
You are commending someone and both of you have zero reality in your posts. Lucky to win 90 games? They won 101 last year and got better. Way deeper bullpen. Deeper starting rotation. They have 4 top prospects banging at the door demanding to be on the opening day roster. The Mets most luckily won’t win the World Series but the highest odds of anyone winning is like 20%. The odds of the Mets winning less than 90 games is lower than 5%. Stop talking crazy and come back to reality.
@Mets6986?? You are the type of fan thats the problem. The Mets exceeded expectations last year by winning 101 games. All the main players had career years. As I said with my Mariners example, the team was not supposed to win that many games, they got lucky. This team doesnt have a bullpen, the hitting is around leagur average, and the starting rotation has a lot of question marks. 90 wins is being optimistic. Got to look at yourself in a mirror, this team isn’t that good
Not one player on the team had a career year. What are you talking about. Nothing you are saying is remotely even accurate. Diaz, Robertson, Ottavino, Raley , Smith, Curtiss and about ten others isn’t having a bullpen? They were fifth in the majors in runs scored. That’s league average to you. The starting rotation is considered by most as the best in the game. Stop being a hater and making up stuff that isn’t there.
@lfg sorry i mistaken you with someone else
And what are you trading for giolito? It will probably take more than a bag of peanuts and Giolito is a part of their plans. You have no outfielders and no 2nd baseman they would be able to acquire unless they consider a move for mauricio. The white sox still consider themselves contenders so you are trading atleast one of peterson or megill to fil out the deal to cover the rotation with probably maurico if the white sox dont aim for Alvarez or Baty as the primary. Remember that whitesox have the upper hand in this especially with an inconsistent pitcher like walker getting 4/80 Giolito is a bargain. Now you have Giolito for one year lost your good to top prospect and another pitcher and ended up with maybe a slightly better starter than what you traded for and lost atleast 6 -7 years of cheap control of probably atleast regular production. Whats funny is overall Carrasco was a better overall pitcher than Giolito last year and in a tougher division while making slightly less. Sounds like you want to make a Ruf type deal (are you really eppler trying to run deals past us?). Whether he is good against good or bad teams doesnt matter in the overall as he is putting up solid numbers overall and when it comes to playoffs its about your top 3 with your 4 or 5 heading to the bullpen in case you need a 2nd long reliever at best.
Also when Eovaldi goes down (which is a certainty and not an if) and Scherzer has fatigue or whatever you think Verlander is going to have (they are very similar pitchers) who are you leaning on to be the ace? Walker? Giolito? Peterson/Megill? or are you going to empty the farm for another starting pitcher? Also most teams need atleast 7 pitchers throughout the season. Is Butto your 7th pitcher for those games?
I think the course of action for starters is what the mets had to do with Verlander becoming your co ace as outside of major injury 2x in his 20 plus years he is gives you top end production and high 20/30+ starts with usually top 5 cy young production. Senga being interchangible with Bassit type pitchers (solid regular with upside) and Quintana inchangible with Walker/Syndegaard/etc etc which are more wild card pitchers that you hope do well either in spurts or when healthy. Although i would put Walker and Syndegaard above Quintana a bit.
@LFG, who specifically had a career year?? The Mets also won 101 games in 1 of the 2 strongest divisions in baseball. Now with a less division heavy schedule they re already ahead. That’s before factoring in additions to the team. And potential 50-55 starts from Verlander-Scherzer.
For someone who watches 150-162 games a year u seem pretty out of touch with the game….
@Tigers3232, McNeil won a batting title, this was easily Alonso’s best year at the plate accounting for no juiced balls, Scherzer had his best ERA of his career, Edwin Diaz, Nimmo, Peterson, Trevor Williams, etc.
Alonso played on par with both 2019, 2021, and pace of 2021 season. Hardly a stand out career season and just talent progressing. Scherzer had best ERA by a bit although pitching far less and not even a top 8 of his seasons let alone comparable to his 3 Cy Young seasons. Nimmo’s #s on par with his lone other season of 140+ games. Considering the added talent in lineup the slight gains from batters was expected. Trevor Williams started a whooping 9 games. Diaz was the lone true breakout. And the team has been improved since last season and again no longer div heavy schedule.
I wouldnt even say it was a breakout for Diaz as he had put up similar numbers with the mariners before the trade when he was one of if not the top closer then. First year was learning the nl, then you had covid, he started coming back in first full season after covid then he is back to his old self last year and put up slightly bigger numbers last year. than his final seattle year.
“struck again by taking on Carrasco’s 12 million dollar option.”
Most teams in baseball would have taken than option*. Also, the option was not and is not prohibitive because Steve Cohen does not care about money the way most teams do. I get that your schtick is bashing the Mets, but please stop this tiresome nonsense.
*Syndergaard–another vet coming off injury who pitched about league average, also got $13 million for one year. Heaney got 2/$25 despite being super risky and never having anywhere near the success of Carrasco in his career. There’s more examples but you get the point.
@rct if Carrasco’s option is so valuable, why havent any of the other 29 teams contacted the Mets about a trade? Mets have a pitching surplus, surely other teams would know that and try to pry away such a good bang for your buck pitcher, right? Oh wait, no one wants him. No one wants him because he should not be in a contending team’s starting 5. He was left off the Met’s playoff roster last year for a reason.
As for Syndergaard, hes a 10x better pitcher than Carrasco, and I don’t even like either of them.
As for Heaney, he might have the best agent in baseball. Hes really a Triple-A starter who had some luck last year. I’d say he fits more on a team thats going to win close to 50-60 games rather then a team thats contending
Who’s to say whether other teams have called about him? Not every thing they do makes it to the press. They may have a different and more informed view of Carrasco, and not want to trade him.
Based of reports I saw, the Mets had teams contacting them about Carrasco, but talks fell through when Correa’s deal fell through
@LFGMets – keep up the good fight. It’s been entertaining watching you spin off the planet. Tim should comp you for each Mets post you comment on.
Most teams? Every team would have. Some of the lower market teams would have then traded him but everyone knows he is worth his contract.
Hopefully, Garcia is not hurt and is, instead, just embarrassed by the severe beating he took today. The Bucs need a decent LHP in the pen. He has been pretty solid in his career.
The Bucs need a lot of decent things
You ain’t wrong, but the Pirates should be improved at several positions (C, 1B, DH, and SP come to mind), and they played 12-15 really poor players last season who are no longer in the organization. There is nowhere to go but up in the win column.
That beer looks good, I guess I’m thirsty.
Not so sure, Treehouse, at least in these early exhibitions
First off, Hernandez in the bullpen may be the answer. Kid is clocked in the high 90’s and has been impressive so far
Garcia yesterday was, uh…
You mention improved starting pitching. These games are a sample size of course but I don’t see much difference from last year in some of these guys. Keller, Brubaker and Oviedo still have this tendency to miss dead red. It’s hard to fathom how this continually is the case
I thought Hill looked good yesterday and it seems Contreras is learning
If they’re going to go with 6 starters, here’s hoping they get stronger and smarter over the next month
Lastly, I know it’s early but they still look anemic at the plate. The plate discipline here, inability to pick up spin pitches, unawareness of the count and strike zone—-is anyone coaching these kids?
I think they’ll be improved and win between 70 and 75. Hard to imagine much more.
Uh….but it is early
I agree that 70-75 wins is what we’re looking at. That’s a pretty big improvement. I’d like to see Garcia return to the guy he was in SF. Hernandez is looking good. The Pirates could use two LHP in the pen. It’s early. Lots of spring games to work things out. I’ve just arrived in Bradenton (last night) and will be getting a better look at the Bucs starting today. Let’s Go Bucs!
Hey, lucky guy. Please post your thoughts. TV is great and all, but nothing like being there
@rct If Carrasco’s contract is so valuable, why arent teams lining up to trade for him while the Mets have a pitching surplus? Syndergaard is 5 times the pitcher Carrasco is, even though I don’t like either of them. Theres also a reason why Carrasco wasn’t on their playoff roster last year, the Mets front office knew he wasnt that good and still excercised his option
Hardly anyone’s fifth starter is on the playoff roster. The reason for that is the series are designed to have breaks and not need a five man rotation. That doesn’t mean they are valuable pieces to the team. If the Mets are causing you this much heart ache before the season begins then it might be time for you to become a fan of some other team.
you can probably ignore him mets5986 he is an ignorant son of a
Love Dave Pete this year. Would suck for him to lose some time because of a foot.