Mets' AJ Minter Eyes Healthing 2026 after a LAT injury at the end of the end of the season

The METs will be without AJ Minter for the rest of this season and maybe until the year next year, with the left -handed surgery to repair a torn lat.

Minter speaks for the first time since the decision to undergo an operation next week, and said the procedure had a 10-12-month rehab process.

If everything goes well, Minter said that he could have a “normal” spring training and then not far away when the regular season begins.

But he also noticed the operation – necessary because he torn down the Lat against the nationals on April 26, so that there is not a lot of information from which you can get started.

The 31-year-old signed a two-year contract with $ 22 million in the off-season, which contains an opt-out after this year.

Minter's season ended with Atlanta last year with a hip operation in August.

He called the injury “super frustrating”.

“I felt so good,” said Minter, who had not given up a run in his previous 12 appearances and broke out 13 batteries in 10 innings during this route. “I wish I knew what it caused.”

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He pointed out an increase in speed and freedom of movement in his hip as possibilities, but Minter's main focus is on 2026.

“I was excited to help this team,” said Minter. “It's a special team. I will help this team next year.”

Minter's injury, together with Danny Young's Tommy John Surgery, leaves the mets with only one left in the pen, Genesis Cabrera.

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Mark Vientos was sitting for a second game in a row, and Mendoza said he wanted so many left -handers in the line -up against the right -handed Jameson Taillon against Cubs.

Mendoza said Jeff McNeil started in midfield if he had no knee tendon cramp on Wednesday. So McNeil served as DH with the left -wing board board Baty on the third base for two consecutive games and VISTOS on the bench.

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The METS injured start jugs approach a return, with the left Sean Manaea (weird) ready to play a hill and up to 120 feet, and the right-handed Frankie Montas, who is preparing for a LAT burden on live stroke training in about a week.

Paul Blackburn is supposed to start the triple-a Syracuse on Sunday and is “well away,” said Mendoza.

The right-handed man, which has gotten with inflammation of the right knee-is built up to 70-75 parking spaces before returning to rotation.

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Mendoza pointed out that Juan Soto “maybe not as many balls steps on the floor as before” like one of the reasons why his numbers started to become normal again.

Soto joined in the middle of a seven-game route on Friday, in which he went with six additional basic hits (two doubles and four Homer) with six walks in his last 33 record appearances.

“He is a special racket,” said the manager. “At some point we knew that it would turn around. … he uses the whole field and gets the ball a little more off the ground.”

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Ronny Mauricio has to wait until Saturday to play his first game with Double-A Binghamton after the game was canceled on Friday due to worse weather. Binghamton will read on Saturday.

In five games with Class-A St. Lucie, Mauricio, with a rehab order from a torn ACL, which had played in the winter ball before two offseys, 2: 15 went with two stolen bases and played the second basis, the third and shortstop.

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On Friday, MLB announced that Francisco Lindor was attributed to a stolen base from the game on Wednesday after the piece had originally decided indifference. And an error that Pete Alonso was invoiced on Monday was changed to a goal for Arizonas Alek Thomas.