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Mets Place Francisco Alvarez On Injured List

By Steve Adams | August 19, 2025 at 2:45pm CDT

2:45pm: Alvarez is now officially on the IL due to a right thumb sprain with Senger recalled. The Mets say Alvarez will be further evaluated in 10-14 days.

11:13am: The Mets will place catcher Francisco Alvarez on the injured list today due to his right thumb injury, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post. An exact diagnosis isn’t clear just yet, but Alvarez exited Sunday’s game early after injuring his hand on a slide into second base. Manager Carlos Mendoza noted that night that Alvarez was headed for an MRI to evaluate the extent of the injury (link via The Athletic’s Tim Britton).

Losing Alvarez for any period of time is a crushing blow to a flailing Mets club that has come out of the All-Star break with an 11-16 record — including just a 4-11 mark in August. The 23-year-old backstop has been the team’s hottest hitter after a monthlong reset in Triple-A. He’s come to the plate 71 times since being recalled on July 21 and turned in a brilliant .323/.406/.645 batting line (193 wRC+) with four homers, six doubles and a triple.

With Alvarez out for at least the next nine days — his stint can be backdated to Monday — the Mets will have to lean on backup Luis Torrens and rookie Hayden Senger behind the dish. It’s a notable offensive downgrade, with Torrens hitting just .214/.280/.301 in 225 plate appearances this season and Senger carrying a .174/.208/.196 slash in 49 plate appearances as a 28-year-old rookie.

Alvarez missed significant time in 2023 with a thumb injury, though that was due to a ligament tear in his other (left) thumb. He’s also missed time due to a fractured hamate in his left wrist. While it’s perhaps the smallest of silver linings that this latest injury didn’t occur in the same hand that’s already caused him to miss significant action on two separate occasions, his absence will be prominently felt.

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27 Comments

  1. Dubbs

    2 months ago

    I just love it when injury prone hands slide into a base head first. Unacceptable

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  2. dugmet

    2 months ago

    Oh Alvy. 😕

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  3. mlb1225

    2 months ago

    That’s sucks, he has been on fire, and raised his season OPS by over 100 points since getting recalled. They really need a bat like that right now.

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  4. User 1580602565

    2 months ago

    Should have been wearing his oven mits like every other base runner

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    • gbditka

      2 months ago

      Since this happened while legging out a double, are you suggesting he swing the bat with oven mitts on or put them on when rounding first base?

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    • horaceallen

      2 months ago

      Adirondacks doesn’t actually watch the games. Just comments.

      Reply
  5. Bill M

    2 months ago

    He’s all thumbs

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    • ny papi

      2 months ago

      “I wish I had more hands so I can give those ti***es four thumbs down”

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  6. Citizen1

    2 months ago

    What a joke war is. He’s been sent to aaa, 767 ops 1.6 war. Yellich is on a 1st place team, Better than expected ABOVE the dodgers but his war is 2.7.

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    • JuanUribeJazzHands

      2 months ago

      Citizen

      Huh?

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      • choof

        1 month ago

        I don’t think he knows how WAR works

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        • JuanUribeJazzHands

          1 month ago

          Choof

          “I don’t think he knows how WAR works”

          Most everyone who criticizes it, doesn’t.

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        • choof

          1 month ago

          Touche

          Reply
        • Citizen1

          1 month ago

          I don’t think the statisticians who create war know how it works.

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        • JuanUribeJazzHands

          1 month ago

          Citizen

          “I don’t think the statisticians who create war know how it works.”

          Typical Dunning-Kruger stuff.

          They absolutely do. Here’s an example of them walking you though it

          library.fangraphs.com/calculating-position-player-…

          But let’s hear your objections.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      1 month ago

      It’s time for your afternoon nap.

      Reply
      • Citizen1

        1 month ago

        Yankees suck but they have a high exit volocity or in this case high exit to dl velocity.

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  7. Flanster

    2 months ago

    When are base runners going back to sliding feet first? I would think that there would be less injuries

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    • Huh?

      1 month ago

      Seems like a pretty easy thing to correct but players still do it. Why would any mlb team allow any of its players…why would any mlb organization allow any of its players at any level…continue to do this?

      Is it because players think they are able to touch the base a split second quicker (and/or with a better ability to maneuver in) by diving headfirst? I’m not sure what the stats are on that? That could actually be true but even if so is the extremely minute possibility of being safe instead of out only because you dove instead of slid worth the added potential injury risk that you encounter every time you do this (not just the times that diving made you safe instead of out)???

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  8. MeowMeow

    1 month ago

    Ali Sanchez you are a New York Met

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    • AHH-Rox

      1 month ago

      Jacob Stallings is also available. Or Austin Nola.

      Reply
  9. CaseyAbell

    1 month ago

    Get the feeling that the Mets will slip right out of the playoffs. Maybe that’s just recency bias, but most of the rotation and bullpen looks like a mess. Not what you want when you’re hanging onto the last wild card spot by your fingernails.

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      1 month ago

      The reason I don’t think they will is because the Reds are their only real competition. All they need to do is be better than the Reds going forward, and that very expensive lineup will go on explosive stretches from time to time. So, I don’t see the Mets missing the playoffs.

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      • CaseyAbell

        1 month ago

        Thing is, I don’t think the Mets are really any better than the Reds. This is one time when run diff doesn’t lie, and the Reds have a better one. With Greene back, I also like the Reds’ pitching a lot more. We’ll see.

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  10. whyhayzee

    1 month ago

    I think there’s something to be said for teams having their year. It doesn’t mean they will win it all because another may also be having their year as well.

    There’s also something to be said for teams definitely not having their year. Doesn’t mean they’ll crash and burn but they also won’t go far.

    Then there’s the occasional team that manages to have both in the same year. It’s all about which half of the season is the good half.

    The Mets look like it’s not their year.

    But, just like horseshoes, checkers, ordering pizza and backing out of your driveway, you never know.

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  11. Huh?

    1 month ago

    The drop off between Alvarez and the guys that will get his playing time while he’s out is massive. This could legitimately cost the Mets the playoffs.

    WHY BUT WHY would the Mets ever allow Alvarez to continue to dive head and outstretched filanges first into bases???

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  12. Canosucks

    1 month ago

    #Huh?
    Absolutely right man; as a long time Mets fan the ownership/management changes, but the bad decisions remain the same!

    I’ve had this injury, not a pro athlete but still human, and this can linger and relapse and set him back till next year sad to say.

    Plus cost the Mets the playoffs and or success in the playoffs

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