Mets Are 2 for 2 On DL Stints
The Mets may be 0-2 in the standings but they’ve had success at one thing: injuries. The Mets lead the league in putting people on the disabled list during the regular season after they put a second player there in as many days.
Just one day after announcing that Bobby Parnell has an elbow injury that may require Tommy John surgery the Mets placed outfielder Chris Young on the DL with right quad strain. Young had suffered the injury while the team was in Montreal last weekend and sat out opening day as a precaution. But when he chased after a foul ball in the first inning of last night’s game against the Washington Nationals the injury was aggravated. After the chase he walked gingerly back to position but was taken out of the game at the end of the inning.
I’m not a doctor or an expert in sports medicine so there’s no way I can tell the extent of the injury before last night’s game and if the team should have kept him out of it to begin with. But as a fan this is very disconcerting. The Mets bad history with injuries continues to be a sore point but it’s getting harder to tell who’s to blame. Sometimes a player will withhold that he’s got an injury keeping him from being treated properly. Other times he discloses the injury but the extent is either misdiagnosed or ignored. Other times the player is just not in playing shape. These are just a few scenarios and I’m sure I’m missing many more.
One thing I can say with certainty is that this does not bode well as a team begins a new season. Bad news has a way of spiraling through a clubhouse and bringing it down. I’m not saying that this will happen in this situation but this is a subpar team to start with that may not be able to afford the loss of production and possible distractions that come with multiple injuries early on.
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