July 24: The Mets’ plan for Scott is to rest and rehab for the time being, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. The hope is that he can return before season’s end. Given the timing of the injury, it’s sensible enough to try for the rest/rehab route even if surgery has been considered as an option. Surgery might knock Scott out until the end of the 2025 campaign anyhow, so the Mets will go with a non-surgical treatment in hopes that he can return late in the year and then have the offseason for further rest.
July 23: The Mets announced that right-hander Christian Scott has been placed on the 15-day injured list with a right UCL sprain, retroactive to July 22. Left-hander Alex Young was recalled in a corresponding move.
At this point, it’s unclear how severe Scott’s sprain is or how long the Mets expect him to be out, but it’s a concerning development nonetheless. The ulnar collateral ligament is the one replaced in Tommy John surgery and a sprain, by definition, involves some degree of stretching or tearing.
That’s not to say that Scott is definitely going under the knife, as pitchers are sometimes able to return from a UCL sprain via non-surgical means. For a recent and perhaps best-case example, Mason Miller of the Athletics was diagnosed with a mild UCL sprain in May of last year. He missed a few months of the season but was back with the club by September and has been one of the best relievers in baseball here in 2024.
But avoiding the scalpel can also be a temporary measure, as seen in the case of Kyle Bradish of the Orioles. He was diagnosed with a UCL sprain in Spring Training this year but was reinstated from the IL by early May. But after eight starts with the O’s, he was back on the IL and then required Tommy John surgery.
Further updates will reveal more about Scott’s absence but, as mentioned, it’s not good news either way. The young pitcher’s stock has been skyrocketing over the past two years, as he posted a 2.57 ERA in the minors last year. Across 87 2/3 innings at three different levels, he struck out 31.9% of batters and walked just 3.6%.
He’s continued pitching well in the minors this year and has also made his major league debut. His first nine starts at the big league level haven’t been outstanding, as he has a 4.56 ERA and a 19.8% strikeout rate, but that’s a fairly small sample size and he’s obviously still just getting his feet wet in the majors.
The Mets were undoubtedly hoping that he would continue his development, putting up better numbers as he went along, but that will be on pause for an undetermined amount of time. Even losing him for just a few months will take him out of the club’s rotation plans for the stretch run. The Mets are currently 51-48 and clinging to the final Wild Card spot in the National League. As they look to keep that spot, they will do so without Scott in their rotation mix for now.
Kodai Senga is expected to come off the IL this week, joining the rotation alongside Sean Manaea, Jose Quintana, Luis Severino and David Peterson. The club also has Tylor Megill on optional assignment and José Buttó and Adrian Houser currently in the big league bullpen. It was reported a few weeks ago that the club had enough healthy rotation options that they were considering trading someone from that group while still trying to compete this year. Reporting from this week threw some cold water on that and this news about Scott perhaps makes that even less likely, though the club at least has a number of solid rotation options to press forward even if their trade options have been diminished.
On top of the immediate impact of subtracting from the club’s rotation depth, it’s less than ideal for a developing starter to be missing significant time. That’s true even if it’s just a few months but it would obviously be even more true if Scott ends up requiring surgery and perhaps missing all of 2025.
Mets fans won’t like this
I wonder why
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“LOL Mets”
Perfect photo.
Another promising arm the muts ruined
Damn shame
Yes, they are the only team that deals with pitcher arm injuries. Good call out.
“Muts ruined”…You ought to be ashamed of yourself for such a crazy, reckless, baseless assertion. But, you won’t, because coddled, enabled “people” like you have no shame. Agenda driven idiots like you are what’s poisoning and ruining online commentary and discourse in America. So, in your skewed world doing what you’re good at(and what you’ve been doing all your life) is “ruining” them? And your fake concern(“damn shame”) is just beyond the pale.
Johnny utah is a Mets troll. Best to ignore him/her.
he is also known as Johnny know nothing … My guess is the last game he saw was the brooklyn dodgers vs the new york giants.
Zack wheeler, noah syndergaard. Steven matz. Jake degrom, matt harvey, senga, brooks raley, edwin diaz, drew smith, calvin ziegler, christian scott. Serious injuries, extended injuries, or completely gone for up to 2 years. Also completely mishandled lugo & sewald. Its not like degrom, perhaps the greatest talent of our generation, didnt publicly speak out, numerous times, abt how upset he was with mets trainers/doctors and how it was a reason he left queens. Mets doc must be dr seuss.
I wont comment on all the slander i’ve received
Its so hilariously stupid its like i’m a teacher in 3rd grade & my students are yelling “you stink!” Lol. Keep it coming you silly kids. And let the countdown to the next arm getting ruined by the muts begin!
Your way off the mark. The Mets have had their share of pitching injuries over the years but what team hasn’t?? We are in a max effort,spin rate driven era. Power pitchers will break down. Especially tall,lanky guys like deGrom and Syndergaard. When did deGrom ever speak out against the Mets medical staff or the Mets in general? He signed a team friendly extension and never wanted to leave. It was about guaranteed years and the Mets knowing his injury history first hand didn’t bite. There are no hard feelings between deGrom and the Mets at least not publicly. That would have been a major story. As far a mishandling Lugo, he was a very effective reliever while pitching with a tear that he has never had repaired. Who knew he’d have the success he found this year? And Sewald wasn’t happy in New York. The Dodgers have a pretty good reputation with pitching and they have an entire staff on the DL. What does that make them?
Johnny Utah is just naming players arbitrarily and making generic slanderous statements but it all adds up to saying nothing.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
-Mark Twain
Chill
Awful break for Scott. For the purposes of 2024 he seemed to need more seasoning. So if NYM intend to keep Senga 6 man rotation plan, do they give Megill one more chance? Houser? Forgetten man Lucchesi?
I’d love to see Sproat called up, but he’s probably not ready. He’s been an exciting arm to follow in the minors this season.
They might put butto back in rotation but hes been great in relief
The Buttó houser combo has been pretty lights out. Not sure you mess with that.
Megill? 5-man?
After the game last night, Mendoza said he was gonna stick with a 6-man but wouldn’t commit to who’ll replace Scott. Has to be Megill
I heard today likely megill, but we’ll see
Officially Megill. I’m wondering if he has a bad outing or two, do they consider moving him to the pen and put Butto back in the rotation
Idk only bc butto has been so good in relief and the mets need BP help so badly. I know the word is mets will trade for rp, but they could easily shift to a sp like flaherty
A reminder TJS is on the agenda for Mason Miller.
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A’s are pretending to want world for him. They’ll end up taking a good deal but no one is breaking the bank for a closer who might get injured at any time
Any player might get injured at any time.
As a met fan this hurts, but there was a noticeable drop in command after his first two MLB starts (including when he went back to AAA to manage innings). Now we know why. This is too bad
No teams are exempt or safe from the massive number of arm injuries that are sweeping thru Major League baseball.
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Hopefully it can be handled by rest and non surgical options. He was going to run into an innings limit situation soon enough and probably be shut down within the next month anyway.
“Handled by rest”..I’m no Mets fan, but it’s sad to see guys who finally get a well earned big league opportunity have it taken away by the injury Gods.
Good news for pitchers. Pitch design injuries have been identified on the cutter and the slider.
Negligence has been proven from videos and email messages. Teams and Pitchers know where to get this information.
“Given the timing of the injury” – well, surgery should always be the last option anyway. Their careers are put on the line and even their long term well being. We just jump right into the surgical option because the team wants them back out there ASAP and we have the idea that surgery isn’t something as abnormal and threatening as it is. Many of these players would heal if they just waited and sought other options besides the mainstream medical ones. The long term effects of these surgeries on the body (not just the elbow, etc) is still almost entirely unknown. It is well established (through experiments whether the mainstream medical people accept them or not) that energy comes up through the arms and legs into various other regions of the body. Any blockage at a joint can lead literally to organ problems. Experiments have shown this for 100 years. The entry spots for energy into the body are the limbs and the head. Which, if one studied any basic things about how energy flows (physics) this is obvious. The body is electromagnetic (like everything). The head and feet, for instance, are charged + and – (the body is a battery). There is one other spot that carries energetic charges in large supply…the privates.lol. charged + for men and – for women. Basic science neglected by medical people. Take a tree. It takes energy up through the roots and carries it (sap is very much the same as cerebrospinal fluid& bone marrow). The spine is literally an electrical rod. Back to baseball. Sorry