The Mets announced Tuesday that they’ve reinstated outfielder Jose Siri from the 60-day injured list. Reliever Wander Suero was designated for assignment to open a 40-man roster spot, and outfielder Jared Young has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse. The Mets also announced that righty Justin Garza, whom they’d previously designated for assignment, cleared waivers and has been assigned outright to Syracuse.
Siri, 30, appeared in just 10 games with the Mets before suffering a fractured tibia that wound up sidelining him close to five months. New York acquired him from the Rays in an offseason deal sending reliever Eric Orze back to Tampa Bay.
Though Siri strikes out far too often (career 35.8%) and posts poor batting averages and on-base percentages as a result, he’s an elite runner and defender with considerably above-average power. Last year, Statcast pegged Siri’s sprint speed (99th), outfield range (99th) and outfield arm strength (97th) in at least the 97th percentile of MLB players. He popped 43 home runs and stole 26 bags in just 812 plate appearances with the Rays from 2023-24 but did so with a grim .203/.260/.424 batting line overall (91 wRC+).
The Mets placed Tyrone Taylor on the injured list a couple weeks ago and are already expecting to be without Jesse Winker for the balance of the regular season. Siri steps back into an outfield mix that includes Brandon Nimmo and Juan Soto in the corners, with deadline pickup Cedric Mullins in center field. Starling Marte, Jeff McNeil and Luisangel Acuña are all options on the grass as well.
Siri’s right-handed bat is a natural complement for the lefty-swinging Mullins in center field — or so it would seem. However, Siri’s career .194/.251/.378 slash against lefties is markedly worse than his career .211/.269/.411 batting line in right-on-right situations. Neither is a strong mark, however, and Mullins is a better hitter in left-on-left situations than Siri is in right-on-left situations — historically speaking, anyhow. For now, Siri seems like he’ll operate as a fourth outfielder and late-game option off the bench, be that in a pinch-running, defensive upgrade or pinch-hitting scenario.
As for the 33-year-old Suero, he was only just claimed off waivers five days ago and only reported to the team four days ago. He didn’t appear in a game during his brief time with the Mets. His only big league work in 2025 has come with the Braves, for whom he yielded eight runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Ugly Atlanta stint aside, Suero was a frequently used bullpen arm for the Nationals from 2018-20, when he pitched 142 2/3 innings of 4.10 ERA ball. He picked up a save and 27 holds along the way. Suero’s production has taken a nosedive since; he’s pitched in each of the past four MLB seasons but has a 7.11 ERA in 57 innings thanks to an alarming susceptibility to home runs. After yielding just 0.63 homers per nine frames in his first three MLB seasons, Suero has surrendered an average of 2.53 big flies per nine innings since 2021.
To his credit, Suero has been outstanding in Triple-A this season. He’s pitched 46 2/3 innings with the Braves’ top affiliate in Gwinnett and recorded a 1.35 ERA with a dozen saves, a 31.2% strikeout rate and a 6.9% walk rate. Now that he’s been designated for assignment, he’ll head to outright waivers and again be made available to all 29 other clubs.
Good, hopefully we can get better in center field now. Cedric Mullins was a waste of a trade.
True we should’ve got Bader back instead lol
Did anyone see this stat on the Mets that came out today after last nights game with 2nd and 3rd no outs in the ninth?
Mets 0-60 when trailing after 8 innings
Painful as a long time Mets fan.
Anyone notice how good Gilbert is doing with the Giants?
Better numbers than Siri, Taylor, and Mulligan ever could
Don’t beat yourself up. It was actually 2nd and 3rd with one out.
Thanks, I guess the column I read was wrong but always honestly welcome a correction.
GKR mention this stat all the time during games.
Checks out, Bader just homered against the Mets in Siri’s first game back.
Earlier this year people were saying Mullins was going to get a QO from the O’s, like he was going to keep up his early season success.
If he stayed in Baltimore he may have, not producing in New York in a pennant race isn’t a great look for him heading into free agency
He was falling off in Baltimore for weeks before he was traded. Just above replacement level due to the early season streak. He was well below replacement before and after the trade. Baltimore would never had QO’ed him.
Except Siri is just as bad
(With apologies to Rick Nelson)
I wah wah wah Wander…..why
Why why why why why?
He keeps getting gigs, when he sucks so bad.
That guy named Wander, yay?
You mistook Ricky Nelson for Del Shannon, both long deceased.
Chucky: Both quite tragically deceased as well. Del Shannon also doesn’t get the appreciation he deserves, if you ask me. His Greatest Hits album on Rhino (20 tracks; on the cover, he’s looking at the camera and his name is in different colored letters) is hit after hit after hit.
I asked Alexa about Siri, but she didn’t want to talk about him.
It has to do with that incident a while back.
Odd that the Mets launch this announcement in parallel to Apple’s today.
Siri got tired of people asking him when he was playing again.
This should really help in the batting order. We got them right where we want them. Lookout!
Defense helps.
@rjtfd are you telling me you wouldn’t want a guy that bats under the Mendoza line? Don’t you know the David Stearns philosophy? The lower the batting average and the higher the ERA is, thats the type of player Stearns wants
Ask Siri when will Siri play again.
Jared Young is a better player then Siri. Siri is a bum
Always a joy reading your takes.
That’s not saying much for Young who is also a bum
In other Wander news…
Mets about to get swept by the Phillies, they’re back to playing brain dead baseball like they always do this season under Mendoza