On Monday, the Mets activated Kevin Plawecki and Hansel Robles off of the disabled list.
Step right up and meet the Mets ... wait, not that Met. No, not him either. OK, listen we don’t have that many Mets available to greet right now.
There are a lot of Mets on the DL right now.
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That’s the end of the good news in this post, and if you are a Mets fan who is somehow not hardened to the constant deluge of bad news that being a Mets fan entails by now, this is probably where you want to stop reading. Go get yourself an ice cream or something, enjoy the beginning of summer.
Wilmer Flores and AJ Ramos both got put on the disabled list on Monday, the former with a back injury and the latter with shoulder troubles. That would have been bad enough when you consider all of the other New York players on the DL right now (Todd Frazier, Yoenis Cespedis, and Anthony Swarzak are all in various states of rehab, but Travis d’Arnaud, Rafael Montero, and Juan Lagares are all done for the year).
But “bad enough” is not what the Mets do. The Mets get to a certain point in the season and it just all falls apart. I’m actually surprised it took until May 29 for that to happen this year. By Mets’ standards, that’s almost impressive.
The final breaking point (no injury pun intended) came today when they put Noah Syndergaard on the 10-day DL for finger soreness with no timetable for return.
Remember a few weeks ago when the Mets were in first place and we were writing laudatory things about their pitching rotation finally being intact? About how because that had finally clicked into place after years of hoping it seemed like the Mets were finally on track to do great things and not fall short this time?
Well, sorry about that. To be fair though if you’re a Mets fan who was expecting a train full of sensitive dynamite packed inside of rickety boxes to not run over a rogue cactus that blew onto the tracks and derail, exploding and ruining all cargo, then you’re a much more optimistic person than anyone could reasonably expect you to be. So, uh, congratulations on that.
But sorry about everything else. [shrug emoji] [hospital emoji] [beer emoji]
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