Mets drop Robinson Cano to IL in bittersweet damage update

WASHINGTON – The Mets are bloodied but managed to avoid a worst-circumstance scenario Tuesday.

Even so, the group misplaced its hottest hitter for at minimum 10 times with Robinson Cano’s placement on the hurt checklist with a grade two still left abductor pressure.

Two other Mets gamers who been given MRI tests, Jeff McNeil and Amed Rosario, managed to prevent the IL and are mentioned as “day to day” with it unclear how lengthy each will be sidelined. McNeil was scratched from Monday’s lineup in Atlanta, and Rosario and Cano have been eliminated throughout the activity.

McNeil was diagnosed with a low quality correct intercostal strain (again) and Rosario with still left quad tightness. The conditions still left supervisor Luis Rojas scrambling to fill out a lineup card as the Mets prepared to open up a two-video game collection from the Nationals.

J.D. Davis, Andres Gimenez and Brian Dozier started at third base, shortstop and second base, respectively for the Mets, only underscoring the require for depth in this short period that followed an abbreviated summer camp.

“It’s challenging to reduce 3 men like that who are frequently in your lineup and like they are swinging the bat,” Rojas reported, hours just before the success of the MRI tests had been introduced. “Cano is on hearth. McNeil is swinging the bat authentic good and Rosie is swinging the excellent bat as very well. As before long as they occur out of the recreation [Monday] it is rough. This video game is entire of adversity and we know that as a staff.

“We will need the means to recover and preserve shifting. I know we have the depth to appear in and have a lineup that can contend in opposition to any team, so we are feeling pretty snug about that.”

The 37-yr-outdated Cano is slashing .412/.462/.559 with a single homer in 11 video games this year. He had not long ago been moved back again into the middle of the lineup following hitting sixth and seventh for the 1st few online games this period.

Cano’s absence is more pronounced soon after Yoenis Cespedes opted out of the year on Sunday.

“It’s genuinely challenging to drop those people guys in the lineup,” Wilson Ramos reported. “We need people bats in there, specifically Robbie and McNeil, they are hitting the ball genuinely effectively correct now.”

Dozier, who performed regularly for the Nationals previous year – winning a Entire world Series – was signed near the conclusion of summer time camp to present a veteran alternative for Cano and Jed Lowrie (the latter of whom in no way regained mobility in his left knee and was positioned on the IL). The Mets also started the time with veteran infielder Eduardo Nunez as an alternative, but he landed on the IL with a remaining knee contusion soon after appearing in only two game titles for the team.

The Mets held the rookie Gimenez on the roster to start off the year in part simply because of the insurance he could supply at shortstop if Rosario ended up sidelined. Gimenez began participate in with a respectable .294/.333/.412 slash line in 18 plate appearances and had amazed team officers with his foundation-jogging and protection.

Ramos mentioned the shortened camp right after a 3 ½ thirty day period shutdown for the coronavirus outbreak is likely a aspect in the amount of accidents all through the video game. The worst of the accidents sustained in Atlanta on Monday was the torn proper Achilles sustained by Braves ace Mike Soroka.

“I understand a ton of guys were being operating out at home [during the layoff], but it’s not the same,” Ramos reported. “It’s challenging to occur back again to a different spring instruction and get all set in three weeks. It’s not the very same.”