The METS have been without two of their key alignment threats during the first weeks of the season, but that could change in the coming weeks.
Both Jeff McNeil (oblial) and Francisco Álvarez (Hamate Bone) were heading to Port St. Lucie on Tuesday after leaving Citi Field before the victory of the Mets 10-5 over the Marlins on Tuesday.
Carlos Mendoza said Álvarez would begin a rehabilitation assignment with Low-A St. Lucie on Wednesday, while McNeil will be in an extended spring training, with a rehabilitation task to start power this week.
The manager did not provide a timeline for his return to the Mets, but are taking steps in the right direction.
For Álvarez, Mendoza said: “It will be reduced to him catching consecutive [games]nine tickets and get four or five bat [in a game]. “
Having that progression starting Wednesday is encouraging.
“The fact that he will play in the games against real competition is a good sign,” Mendoza said before the victory of the Mets. ”
Mendoza pointed out that, since McNeil is dealing with a stroboscopic oblique, his return could be more complicated.
“Obluques are complicated,” Mendoza said about tension. “We will continue looking and monitoring and we see how it responds in the games and when you face fast balls and breaking balls and has to make swing decisions.”
The Mets have survived well enough without both players, just when Hayden Senger has had to replace Luis Torrens behind the plate, with Torrens also with a contusion of the forearm.
And the replacements of McNeil, Luisangel Acuña and Brett Bitch, have been well in the second base, but Neinder has produced offensively.
“They are part of the daily alignment,” Mendoza said about Álvarez and McNeil. “They will continue to make ourup much deeper: a right -hand batter with power [in Alvarez] And a left-handed batter in Jeff with batter skills, a type of batting setback that can also conduct the ball. Add balance to alignment. “
The Mets had a moment of silence for Octavio Dotel, the former MLB pitcher who died in the collapse of the ceiling in the Dominican Republic.
Dotel, 51, arrived through the Mets system, debuted in 1999 and was changed to the stars after the season in the agreement brought to Mike Hampton To queens.
Before the game, Mendoza sent his thoughts to the boxes that died in Santo Domingo.
“Thinking about our people in the Dominican Republic,” Mendoza said. “It affected many people there. We have many Dominican communities in the world of baseball. Our prayers to their families.”
Jose Siri He entered as a defensive submarine in the ninth, playing in the central garden and pushing Tyrone Taylor To the right.
Mendoza wanted to give Juan Soto A little break on a miserable day to stand in the garden.
“This is something I am going to do from time to time,” said Mendoza.
At the beginning of the game, the duration of a change of launch of the Mets, Soto left the field and sat on the bullpen, probably because there were heater there.
“I like those guys there,” Soto told the laughs.
Senger of Hayden (2 by 4, two races) registered their first Multihit race game. … Starling Mars (2 by 3, two ranked races, a robbery) reached the base four times. … The bases of Pete Alonso, Double, gave him 601 races promoted for his career, one of the six players in the history of the franchise with 600 or more.
