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Mets Place Christian Scott On Injured List With UCL Sprain

By Darragh McDonald | July 24, 2024 at 3:02pm CDT

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.

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31 Comments

  1. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    11 months ago

    Mets fans won’t like this

    I wonder why

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    • User 3240017344

      11 months ago

      Trolls will tho, inb4 “LOL Mets” super original and creative comments

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      • Tom the ray fan

        11 months ago

        “LOL Mets”

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  2. philliesphan77

    11 months ago

    Perfect photo.

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  3. Johnny utah

    11 months ago

    Another promising arm the muts ruined
    Damn shame

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    • Trotski

      11 months ago

      Yes, they are the only team that deals with pitcher arm injuries. Good call out.

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    • mlb fan

      11 months ago

      “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.

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      • rct

        11 months ago

        Johnny utah is a Mets troll. Best to ignore him/her.

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      • Roll

        11 months ago

        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.

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      • Johnny utah

        11 months ago

        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!

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        • Chris from NJ

          11 months ago

          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?

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        • User 3240017344

          11 months ago

          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

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      • 16

        11 months ago

        Chill

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  4. 10centBeerNight

    11 months ago

    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?

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    • rennick

      11 months ago

      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.

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    • Ma4170

      11 months ago

      They might put butto back in rotation but hes been great in relief

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      • raisinsss

        11 months ago

        The Buttó houser combo has been pretty lights out. Not sure you mess with that.

        Megill? 5-man?

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        • Bill M

          11 months ago

          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

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        • Ma4170

          11 months ago

          I heard today likely megill, but we’ll see

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        • Bill M

          11 months ago

          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

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        • Ma4170

          11 months ago

          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

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  5. LordD99

    11 months ago

    A reminder TJS is on the agenda for Mason Miller.

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    • ElGaupo77

      11 months ago

      ^

      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

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      • philliesphan77

        11 months ago

        Any player might get injured at any time.

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  6. Ma4170

    11 months ago

    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

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  7. mlb fan

    11 months ago

    No teams are exempt or safe from the massive number of arm injuries that are sweeping thru Major League baseball.

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  8. MrLOLMet

    11 months ago

    Mets

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  9. Attystephenadams

    11 months ago

    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.

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    • mlb fan

      11 months ago

      “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.

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  10. RBFSSolution

    11 months ago

    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.

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  11. Rishi

    11 months ago

    “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

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