March 31: The Mets have now officially placed Verlander on the IL and recalled Megill, per Tim Healey of Newsday. The move is retroactive to March 28.
March 30: The Mets announced that they will place right-hander Justin Verlander on the 15-day injured list with a “low-grade teres major strain.” According to the team, Verlander “will continue throwing at moderate intensity” and be reevaluated in a week. They’ll provide a further update at that time. Righty Tylor Megill will be recalled from Triple-A and take Verlander’s spot in the rotation for the time being, tweets Anthony DiComo of MLB.com.
The 40-year-old Verlander’s velocity was down in his final outing of spring training, but the team hadn’t hinted at any type of injury until today’s out-of-the-blue announcement. General manager Billy Eppler tells the Mets beat that Verlander first reported discomfort last night and had an MRI this morning (Twitter link via Newsday’s Tim Healey). Verlander himself said he was working through some things that he initially attributed to routine spring discomfort (video link via DiComo). However, when he felt continued discomfort into his final bullpen of spring training and “connected the dots” with his decreased velocity in his most recent spring outing, he decided to get checked out.
Until next week’s follow-up MRI, it’ll be impossible to know just how long Verlander might be sidelined. He’s voiced confidence that it’s minor in nature and said he’d pitch if this occurred during the postseason. That’s encouraging, but even a brief absence is notable.
The Mets are already without one of Verlander’s fellow offseason signees, left-hander Jose Quintana, who will miss upwards of half the season following a bone graft procedure to remove a benign lesion from his ribcage. Quintana’s injury pushed sixth starter David Peterson into the rotation, and they’ll now already be tapping into Megill, their No. 7 option, before a single inning of their season has transpired.
Verlander lost the 2021 season to Tommy John surgery and not only returned in 2022 but improbably stormed back to ace status at age 39, winning the American League Cy Young Award on the heels of a 1.75 ERA over 175 innings. He punched out 27.8% of his opponents against a masterful 4.4% walk rate, averaging 95.1 mph on his heater along the way and generally looking like his typical, dominant self. That brilliant comeback prompted the Mets to make a two-year, $86.66MM offer, matching the annual value on the record-setting contract they’d given to co-ace Max Scherzer.
Assuming Verlander’s absence indeed proves brief, he’ll still be expected to pair with Scherzer and give the Mets two of this generation’s most accomplished arms atop the starting staff. Still, it’s surely a gut-punch to a team that moved on from now-former ace Jacob deGrom largely for durability reasons in recent years. Verlander can be placed on the IL retroactive to March 27 — three days is the largest backdating permissible under MLB rules — so he’ll be shelved for at least the first 12 days of the season.
Here we go!
Go where? Where we goin?
Darn shame.
To the IL??????
To the IL????
https://youtu.be/tpKCqp9CALQ
This is why the Braves are better.
Uh, Fried left in the 4th inning today favoring a hamstring
DC, how much are the Braves paying Fried?
Phillies are better until they arnt. NL CHAMPS
Problem for you is, the Phillies aren’t better. The new playoffs are a joke. The Filthy‘s should never have been in the postseason last year.
Yes. They should have.
When people say that x team shouldn’t have made the playoffs, I always wonder where you draw the line. If we still used the pre-1994 system the Braves wouldn’t have made the playoffs in 2021.
Problem for you is the Phillies were better in the playoffs in 2022. The Mets lost to one of the teams the Phillies beat. It would be different if the Phillies had an easier path. They didn’t. 2023 is a new season and nothing from last season matters. Get over it
and he was still SAFE!
Not nice to poke fun at choking victims, boss.
Correct me if I’m wrong here but if everyone is answering SaltLakeBrave, and SaltLake is a Braves fan bashing the Phillies, how is this becoming a Mets thing? Just curious, unless SaltLakeBrave isn’t a Braves fan I’m getting confused here.
I believe they’re all arch-rivals. But not St. Louis Arch rivals.
Those playoffs hurt, eh?
Like a pair of pliers to a pair of gonads, eh?
1968. Tigers & Cards. Best vs best.
Then MLB decided to go for TV revenue.
Then more. Then still more. And here we are!
1968. The year of the pitcher, which lead to the lowering of the mound and the DH. An interesting year to say the least. But also more than 50 years ago.
True. But the convo started with someone referencing the older playoff systems… With less teams. I merely continued the train of thought.
Yep Braves have all healthy guys like Fried, Soroka, Wright…
Mr. Cohen, quick, sign Bartolo Colon to a massive, multi-year deal!
Blow, blow, blow the (old) man down…
Who’d a thought?
We have seen this before. Verlander out for 2 months! Father Time remains undefeated!
Here we go!
That didn’t take long.
Just the Mets being the Mets!
Mets gonna Mets
Anyone who thought this roster construction was good by Cohen, doesn’t know baseball. Two 40 year old pitchers anchoring your rotation isn’t the way you build a roster Stevie. No matter how much cash you toss at them.
I agree with you the Mets didn’t do major upgrades. They spent alot on money and on injury prone players. In my opinion the Mets are kinda doing what the 2021 giants did and run the same team from 2021 out in 2022. We saw that didn’t end well for the Mets. Currently; the 2023 didn’t make any huge upgrades from the 2022 team that ran out of steam. With the current line up I could see the Mets missing the playoffs all together
What players aren’t injury prone from 20 to 40? All you have to do is read the headlines of almost every article posted on this sight. I like the fact that Cohen is so eager to win that he spent a fortune this off-season trying to get there. The problem is, he seemed to go for names instead of positions. It would have helped if he listened to a baseball man to help guide him in what players to pick. For example, signing seven big name pitchers while neglecting 3b because they don’t have big names doesn’t add up to a winning team.
@Benjamin
Name me one free agent high end starter that was not injury prone this past offseason … then remember the mets needed 3 starters Regardless if you viewed megill and peterson as rotation pieces or not you will need atleast 2 starters for depth in the minors and the mets lost 3 top starters in Degrom, Bassitt, and Walker.
@Benjamin, in 14 seasons Scerzer has started 30 or more games 11 times, then 2 seasons with 27 and 23 starts. The third being Covid. He has been anything but injury prone.
As for Verlander in 16 seasons 13 have been 30 or more starts. One season with 28 and another with 20. He injured UCL in 2020 and missed remainder of season and 2021. Aside from Tommy John Surgery, Verlander to has been an absolute workhorse. The notion that the 2 are injury prone is absolutely laughable.
You’re talking reason to trolls. Despite the fact that Cohen is trying to donwhat the Dodgers did. They bumped the payroll up 100M 10 years ago to try to win while they rebuilt the organization. It’s a long term plan. Oh yeah and JV has a minor injury and his and Max’s careers are the picture of health and consistency.
They’re… old. In all that time you mentioned, they were getting… old.
One of them is coming off a Cy Young season and the other posted a 2.29 ERA (yes 145 innings but still). They have the depth to account for minor injuries like this
Exactly!!!
@Milwaukee-2208 I’ve literally been saying this for months now and people have been thinking I’m crazy, I guess I was right again
Eppler is over his head. That GM has to go if Cohen wants to win.
Eppler? You mean the Mets 30th choice? He did an amazing job with the Halos though, perineal division champs and World Series contenders.
🙂
Shohei the money!
Coming from a Brewers fan, that’s rich. Maybe they should move since your owner is too cheap to spend. Remember the Braves, they hightailed it out of there, maybe another owner and market will spend.
All I’m going to say is that if you’re spending 300 million dollars, Dan Voglebach shouldn’t be your DH.
I agree with this. Ridiculous money for two 40 year old pitchers, albeit HOF pitchers and putting them as your 1+2. I don’t blame Verlander or Scherzer at all. It falls on Steve Cohen thinking about ticket sales and marketing over long-term stability in the rotation
This is sad news, but not surprising. No matter the age, all pitchers are constantly at risk for injury. Clearly MLB should take a look at this trend, as it wasn’t like this years ago.
And you provided nothing to dispute it so who’s the dumba$$
He’s got you on the special characters, chief.
Whats a “low-grade teres major strain”
For real never heard of this before I’m sure we aren’t alone
They called it a low-grade which makes me think it’s something minor but then say major strain which makes me think it could be a big deal so I’m now confused
.,..then there’s jumbo shrimp
The muscle is called the Teres Major. It’s a minor strain of that muscle. It’s below the shoulder.
Teresa major is the name of muscle. It’s not saying major strain
I think my brother dated her in high school.
They didn’t call it a major strain. That’s the name of the muscle.
Still trying to figure out how low grade and major get put in description, seems oximoronic
Teres Major is the name of muscle.
Abbot and Costello routine in the making?
Muscle near the scapula
Teres Major injuries result in pain and difficulty with activities that require sideways or backwards movements with the arm. Isolated tears of the teres major are quite uncommon, but may occur in baseball or cricket players, especially pitchers and bowlers.
https://www.physio-pedia.com/Teres_Major
It’s caused by banging a hot wife.
Picking up too much heavy breast,
isn’t this the same injury Degrom had last year during Spring Training?
DeGrom had a stress reaction on the right scapula. Same area, but the Mets said that deGrom’s injury was to the bone, not the muscle.
Just read that deGrom’s injury, while to the bone, “is caused by repetitive stress on the muscles that are pulling on the shoulder blade bone”.
Sounds like it may just be the same injury. Ruh, roh.
Teres Major injuries result in pain and difficulty with activities that require sideways or backwards movements with the arm. Isolated tears of the teres major are quite uncommon, but may occur in baseball or cricket players, especially pitchers and bowlers
Steal comments much ?
I strain mine a lot from working out. It’s a little painful, makes it hard to take dee breathes but not very limiting and it heals relatively quickly.
Pace bowlers or spin bowlers?
Asian parents are probably asking why it wasn’t a high grade instead.
You can’t make this stuff up.
A top Mets’ pitcher getting injured or people being confused by a minor Teres Major strain?
All the damn injuries, not just on the Mets, across baseball.
Not all of us know everything, as apparently you do. Thus we ask questions.
We just strive to be as brilliant as you. (Insert eyeroll)
Can you say Rotator Cuff… Curse of the Orange and Black And Blue Strikes Again?
It’s not rotator cuff. This is a muscle below the shoulder blade so I’m not thinking rotator cuff.
As an internet doctor, let me give you my prognosis…. They might have to remove that Teres Major and replace it with part of the Gluteus Maximus muscle.
Thus, it will forever be known as “JV surgery”.
Let’s go Astros!!!
Verlander, Quintana, Diaz and counting.
Diaz hurt the worst in my opinion as the fear factor of that late inning bullpen is totally gone. Not a Mets fan but Diaz did have a great home entrance song
That’s what gets to me the most. Sure, Diaz is out for the season. But has anyone shed a single tear for poor Timmy Trumpet, who will also miss the entire season? Time to pass the hat.
As a career Mets hater, this is tough even for me.
Want the NL East slaughter to happen on the field, not the IL….Hopefully this injury is not a bad one….?
Muscle strain near the scapula so hopefully just a few weeks?
At 40 years old, every minor injury could be major. Hoping for the best here.
Especially ones that come with a loss of velocity. Doesn’t mean it’s serious but he’s lying saying he’d be pitching if it was the playoffs.
I’m guessing the loss of velocity could be due to Verlander slightly backing off on how hard he throws because of the discomfort.
“Most of these injuries heal without the need to operate, and most players are able to return to play within three months”
https://www.rehabmypatient.com/shoulder/teres-major
Three months, eh?
Nov-Dec-Jan… ;>)
Apr-May-June… ):=O
Woof
That’s a $4MM IL visit
Honestly this only happened because of Curly’s posts.
That’s what the Mets said about deGrom a “minor” injury and he missed a whole year.
Scherzer will follow him to the IL after todays game. Oblique injury. Again. Mark my words. While I hated the Wilpons, Cohen is spending WAY TOO much on aging stars. $86 a year for two 39/40 years olds? Really?
Everything you’re saying is true, but the good news for Mets fans is that the financial hit won’t stop Cohen from spending more money.
The Mets have depth. We had injuries last year and won 101. Aside from Diaz, we are deeper. I still think we can win over 100.
I think you logged into the wrong username, bravesnation.
Had depth. And wrong user name.
You’re on fire today von
He actually typed ‘death’. Fooking auto-correct.
VonPurpleHayes. Nope.. Long time Mets fan since ’83. The NL is the Braves’ division until we can beat them. I respect the heck out of that organization (aside from the international draft pick cheating scandal). Been watching them own us most years since Dale Murphy roamed the outfield…
Things are changing though!
When will fools get a grip and realize that means nothing to Cohen? Its a long term plan. Dodgers added 100Mil+ to the payroll 10 years ago to stay competitive while they rebuilt the organization. He’s trying to do what they did, and frankly more owners should be doing what the Mets, Pads, Phillies, and Rangers are doing. These rich jagoffs won’t open their books while they collect millions and crap on their fans, ie Cincinnati. Their fans deserve better.
Where do you get off calling a bunch of turds ‘fools?’
I agree though. Cohen should buy the NY Jets. and sign Lamar Jackson AND Aaron Rodgers.
I know the age doesn’t help w injury risk, but we’re seeing all pitchers can get hurt, and can be a total fluke. Look at max fried, Joe musgrove, severino (though he’s always hurt). I just never got the logic that degrom was more of an injury risk than JV, when JV missed all 2020 and 2021 w TJS, and degrom missed half of 2021 w arm issues and 2/3 of 2022 w scapula issue. Before that he was a rock, so that whole logic never made sense to me. They all get hurt unfortunately.
It has begun!!!
Its called the teres major fellas. Nothing to do with severity
I had that same injury some years ago. I think most of the cases surgery isn’t necessary,all I had to do was rest it which was a literal pain since I couldn’t sleep on my right side without it hurting like heck.
Mrs. Verlander must be devastated.
I think Kate Upton will be ok. She can take a holiday or buy a new mansion or country or something.
If she’s looking for volunteers to take his place sign me up!
The perfect fill in for DeGrom
Jon Arson Heyman was calling deGrom a part-time pitcher, though, in spite of him having more innings the last 3 years than Verlander. Take that NY media! Some fans are actually as bad as journalists, but they certainly don’t makeup for all the writers and social media fans hoping deGrom got injured.
2 yrs/$86.67M (23-24)
Uh oh.
mets are the cowboys of the mlb. all media hype, zero results
With their new owner, that comparison is more appropriate than ever. Still, let’s not count them out because of one (hopefully) minor injury.
That’s real currency he’s spending. Hype would be if he was talking about spending but was not doing so. Your Phillies spend “stupidly” too (reference to Middleton’s infamous comment).
As a constantly disappointed Cowboys fan, I agree.
I told a Phillies fan that the biggest bust this season will be the Mets…
Weren’t met fans the ones talking the most crap about texas signing degrom? How’s his replacement working for yall? Degroms opening day starter, verlanders on IL
deGrom*
Not DeGrom.
DeGrom if it’s used at the start of a sentence. If it’s used in the middle or end of a sentence, then deGrom.
“The ‘de’ is properly an internominal (between names) rather than a forename/given name or a surname/family name. ‘De’ strictly means ‘of’, so Jacob of Gromm.” It is neither correct nor incorrect to use the Americanized De or de.
In a sentence in English, it’s a capitalized D if used at the beginning of the sentence.
It’s a Dutch name (Germanic), not a Latin one so the “de” means “THE”, not “of”. Jacob the Grom, not Jacob of Grom. DeSmid means the smith.
When using a Latin or Spanish name in a sentence, the “de” would not need to be used at all regardless of placement in the sentence. Just the “Grom”
Here is a great guide for that. https://libguides.dickinson.edu/
The Grom had a rough day today.
Emily Dickinson?
I taste a liquor never brewed –
From Tankards scooped in Pearl –
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air – am I –
And Debauchee of Dew –
Reeling – thro’ endless summer days –
From inns of molten Blue –
When “Landlords” turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove’s door –
When Butterflies – renounce their “drams” –
I shall but drink the more!
Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats –
And Saints – to windows run –
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the – Sun!
The editor and/or senior educated monitor of the jurisdiction is my guide.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob
deGrom
He did, but he got run support for the first time of his career.
Excellent discourse. De ‘deGrom’ I was aiming at was in deMiddle of deSentence. I always capitalize deFirst word in deSentence.
deEnd
Virtually everyone else who’s name starts with De spells it with a capital D. I love seeing that deGrom K/BB ratio, but I saw 3 strikeouts and 1 non walk that shouldn’t have been. 7/0 K/BB should be 4/1
Those were also some of the weakest hit XBHs Ive ever seen. He wasnt at his best but there was also some bad luck involved.
I get the deStuff. But it looks dumb on the uniform. Names on the back are always ALL caps. Like Van der Wal. (damn Good Hitter) We all know that only one letter is usually capped. but the ‘de’ stitching always looked like a six-year old drew it on there.
Shake yesterday off, d. Your skipper is a hall of famer. You’ll bounce back.
Mets are the undisputed world champions of breaking pitchers. Amazing!
The Mets have never been world champions of anything other than Murica, F#&k Yeah!
I majored in teres in college.
Ouch! NY teams having all sorts of issues with injured pitchers. It’s a big part of my 2023 MLB predictions which still have each club making the postseason but as wild cards rather than division winners.
His name is Megill, he calls himself Lil, but everyone knows him as Nancy…
Not sure he’s the girl of anyone’s fancy though.
I’ll ask him… he’s in the next room at the hoedown
I thought it was Desmond. The that took the trolley to the jewelers store.
It’s pronounced Throatwarblermangrove.
The division is there for the Marlins to take.
Max Fried just got hurt too. Please cancel all NLE games today. It’s a bloodbath.
Yep. Time to cancel the World Baseball Classic!
VonPurpleHayes: That’s putting it in the right perspective. While Mets fans are standing on ledges over Verlander,the Braves lose Fried. It’s a game of attrition. Whichever team has the most healthy players in October has the best chance to win.
The Mets fans were standing on the ledge over Diaz.
Verlander has a pigeon pecking at their feet.
When Scherzer pulls a lat/oblique/quad muscle, they’ll slip on bird doo.
Whoops!
Lol Mets,
Can’t even get to opening day and they are dropping like flies.
2 SP down, no closer, and no depth either.
Need Butto to start games next.
I was waiting for this shoe to drop. I watched Verlander pitch Sunday velo was down to 91 and his control was poor walking 6 batters in 4 innings. He was injured as I suspected.
So he looked in playoff form?
Mets are in disaster mode and they haven’t made it to opening day yet.
VonPurpleHayes,
He was struggling vs a AA Marlin lineup with an away ST roster.
Haha. Missed my joke, meaning he’s not great in the playoffs.
Yeah I got it the 1st time
Apparently you didn’t if you had to comment again
So if you get the joke, you’re not supposed to comment? I didn’t know that was an unwritten rule on the comment boards.
He didn’t get the joke
Yeah, I heard you the first time, Ike. $500 to the Ace!
Rules here? No, there’s no rules, here.
Latino Heat,
VonPurpleHayes and JackStrawb are inside my “circle of trust” so when I state that I understood the joke about Verlander being in playoff form I should have commented such earlier so as to avoid the ambiguity to you.
If you had to comment you obviously didn’t get the joke. Let it go it’s okay it went over your head no big deal
Yanks had Verlander on the ropes last year. They pulled a George Foreman and punched themselves out.
Robrock’s a good egg. He got the yolk.
VonPurpleHayes,
Laughing with you but laughing at the other guy lol
You obviously get your underoos in a bunch over trivial sheet, son. This is a conversation amongst grown-ups. Don’t you have homework?
Run along now. Spit spot.
I’m not a Mets fan. I’m a baseball fan. And this just sucks. All these SP injuries on the NY teams just suck. It weakens the product, it weakens the game.
I dunno. There is something poetically satisfying when an owner tries to buy the stairway to heaven only to find out that its not that easy.
Don’t believe any hedge fund billionaires want to hear a whole lotta Led Zeppelin, not even on Opening Day.
Not a whole lotta love.
“Welcome back to Major League Baseball, sort of.”
It’s the day that hope no longer springs eternal. Gaaa.
He never topped 91 in his final outing. That doesn’t seem low grade to me.
Perhaps he was trying to work through it and not trying to further aggravate the discomfort which we now know is a strain. It’s about building up in ST after all.
I think this is the 3rd player to have this injury in the last few days. Cleveland’s Triston McKenzie’s injury was described as a “strain of the teres major muscle in his throwing shoulder” with an expected shut down of at least 2 weeks, and as long as two months!
Best pitching rotation in baseball.*
*over the age of 36
Mets gonna Met.
So much dumb conversation regarding Verlander and Scherzer this off-season. Yes, they’ve been relatively “durable” thus far throughout their careers. That is meaningless now. All that means for 2023 is more wear and tear and mileage on the clock as they go into their 38 and. 40 year old seasons. The music has to stop sometime.
Maybe sign Harvey, Archer or Keuchel on a minor league deal
Keuchel, definitely. He’s only one dfa away from setting the major league record.
Keuchel should sign a one-day Astros contract, so he can get dfa’d by his original club.
Is Dylan Bundy warm yet? Tbh, I would have liked that AAA depth signing for my Pads.
They would rather resurrect Ted.
When does football season start?
who cares.
100 upvotes here
Glad to see Im not the only baseball fan who thinks football is dumb.
The way baseball is set up now with the 3 wildcard teams it is more about just get in than have to win a division. Scherzer and Verlander are both old I was thinking to myself this week that the Mets need to plan on skipping both of these starters several times during the year to keep them fresh.
I will agree with other comments that Cohen spent a lot of money this season but didn’t necessary make the team a lot better. Basically the Mets swapped Degrom for Verlander and a got a different catcher.
It’s a long season for sure but on paper the Mets aren’t a powerhouse team that has a fear factor depth roster like maybe Atlanta has
That’s not totally true. We’ve seen one season of this new format. The NL WC team saw success. The AL WC teams got bounced quickly. I actually think the new format, while adding an extra team, ensures that WC teams have a harder path. Time will tell, but one season is not enough to make any claim one way or the other.
So when does football season start?
For the Jets? Never.
Go Big Blue!
“Mr. Retro Freak” Mike Lupica and “Mr. Dumb Sports Fan” Mike Vaccaro say hi.
(Columnists on barely-breathing NYC tabloids).
The New Jersey giants are going to finish third in that division yet again
Still better than the Jesters.
Who? Not better than Philly or Dallas. Maybe on par with the Washington football team
Philly, probably. Dallas will implode.
Karma for all of the deGrom negativity.
Yes!!!
I already predicted this once the Mets signed him. 95% of the people on this site have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to the Mets. Since day 1 I’ve talked about how bad the Eppler signing was, the Verlander signing was a complete waste of money for a 40 year old pitcher who missed about 1 and a half seasons to injury prior to last year, Vogelbach is a waste of a roster spot, the trade deadline was awful, JD Davis for Ruf was beyond stupid, and I will be right about this horrid bullpen thats easily the worst staff in the National League. Mets will be lucky to get 85 wins, meanwhile they spent 400 million dollars this offseason, what a freakin joke
Vogelfat should take up two roster spots.
@bronxmac77 how does someone that can’t run, can’t play the field, and can’t hit lefties make an MLB roster? It just doesn’t make any sense. Would rather see the prospect take over DH if you didnt want to spend any money at that position. Clueless front office
@LFGMets
Dude, take a chill pill. I guarantee you that the Mets will not have the worst bullpen in the NL and that they will win at least 86 games. They will likely have an above average bullpen and win about 95 games. They could win the World Series this year and you wouldn’t even enjoy it, because you’re consumed by the negative.
Will he be ready for Old Timers Day?
“Heh heh heh heh…”
F. Montas, Bronx NY
“There are poor teams.
There are rich teams.
Then there’s 50 feet of crap.
Then there’s us!”
– Billy Beancounter Eppier
Terrible! Our guy left with a Angry Hammy earlier today too. Hope both pitchers will be ok. Braves win 7-2.
Not 2 hours before first pitch of the new season and we have a legendary LOLmets moment.
Lol Texas is a pretty common sentiment here, too. Look at some of the comments on Texas news that has nothing at all to do with deGrom (Jake McCarthy signing, Evoldi, Heaney, Grossman, Otto injury, Odorizzi injury, etc.). I do wonder what team is primarily responsible for those comments.
Texas’ best signing was Bruce Bochy. I saw him perform miracles in SD. When he moved to SF and finally had a front office that knew a thing or two, he built his HOF resume. IF anyone can get Texas over the hump, Boch is the guy.
Heard 2-3 months rehab time for this kind of injury to pitchers. So All Star break? That is one heck of an expensive strain.
That is one heck of an expensive booty call. Maybe he hurt his whittle pinky in the grand canyon.
Hopefully not serious. Is it me or are top pitchers being injured at a higher than normal rate right now?
It’s hard to tell of it’s you. Are you injured at a higher rate than normal?
Glad the Astros didn’t give him that ridiculous contract at his age
More missed WAR.
Obviously he injured it by carrying his wallet around
He hasn’t gotten paid yet this season.
Oh I forgot he only made more than $20 million a season since 2012. My mistake!
Mets just optioned Megill to AAA, does the option count against them, since now they need to recall him to replace JV?
The Yanks won. So I’m all adither.
How was this so predictable? The Mets never learn.
They lost the division last year by one game. One game a starter like Scherzer or Verlander is injured and misses time.
Meanwhile, their rookies step up but they still choose to invest and overpay in better but more fragile free agents.
What if the rookie gets hurt?
Why are you so Bloom and Gloom?
@bronxmac77 not sure what you mean by that
Me neither…
@bronxmac77
FYI….the term is “gloom and doom” or “doom and gloom”.
or “doom and gloom”.
Geesh, LOL
I would think Cohen’s wallet would be swearing a bit more than that.
No need, to panick in April is the biggest waste of time. Fun to see all the comments, amusement.
Time to call up Al Bundy !!
how severe is it, will he be back in time to participate in the Mets old timers ceremony?
Lolololol
Overpay
I’m a doctor. This is serious
What. Doctor Pepper? Well I’m Orange Crush. This is all fizz.
I’m serious, you’re damn sure NOT a doctor
but i am a doctor…. dr. mantis toboggan
Shirley, you can’t be serious?
i am…. and don’t call me shirley
“Doctor, could you give us your impression of Ted Stryker?”
“I’m a doctor. I don’t do impressions.”
That’s it Seasons over.
So poetic that deGrom is healthy right now too. But oh wait…hE hAd A bAd sTaRt, right Mets?
Well Mets, 100 year old baseball players DO get injured!
deGrom got run support.
How horribly written to not even mention what part of the body teres major is, as if it is common knowledge
Google.com
Or just say he hurt his shoulder. Is it hard to add one word? He wrote an entire article
basically it connects the shoulder blade to the humerus,and I’m not being humorous,I haven’t a funny bone in my body.
77-85
1-0
He’s pretending to be injured so that he can more closely monitor his wife to ensure she’s not cheating on him with Justin Bieber.
…and Pete Davidson.
Verlander is way more reliable than deGrom ………
When does the football season start? When I SAY it starts!
Now… turn the damn lights out!
– A. Rodgers, AKA AR12
I strained my Ursa Major. Hurt so bad I saw stars.
Mets are like the guy that buys a 2010 Range Rover to commute to work instead of a 2023 Honda Accord. The old Range Rover looks cool when it’s out of the shop at least.
For those Mets fans who are already whining about JV being hurt and an injury liability, quit crying! Dude is a dog, and when he comes back in a few weeks you’ll be loving what he brings on the mound. I watched for 11 years him take the bump every 5th day and even at 40 he’ll give you 20-25 quality starts this year.
No he won’t.
Your right Bronx, you should know all about IL stints being a fan of the Stanks. How many pitchers you got on the IL already this year? Severino, Trevino, Rodon, and atleast 3 more. I’ll take your expertise here! Lol
Nope. He’s dead, Jim.
As of today, the Mets will pay Verlander and Scherzer $10 million more than the Pirates opening day 26-man roster will be paid for the season. $30 million more than the A’s opening day roster.
Yeah, but the Pads used to be like that, buddy. Quality costs. Running a MLB club like a swap meet is cheaper.
Can you make an IL stint retroactive to two days before the season started? I see why you’d want to do it, so your pitcher only loses two starts instead of 3, but I didn’t think you could.
You can
Well Astros paid what 64 million over 2 years and he pitched 6 innings then missed the 2 years with Tommy John surgery let’s see what happens with the Mets over 2 years. Astros used the money saved from not signing Verlander to sign Javier for the next 6 years Verlander will be in the hall of fame by the time that contract is up
The Astros are smart.
The Mets are… From Queens NY.