Lagares = Oblique Strain

[Frayed Knot]

Apparently from running out a grounder in today's game. Was pulled after 3 innings, no word yet on how severe/not.
He had previously lead off the game with a triple and later scored. (3-0 Mets @ Braves in 7th)



When I was growing up, ballplayers didn't even have obliques. I liked those days better.

[Edgy MD]

Well, that makes it a bad time for Nimmo to be hurt as well. If neither can answer the bell for opening day, that means they are going to have to look beyond the 40-man roster for a fifth outfielder (Taijeron? Somebody off the wire?) or carry a seventh infielder that can fool around in the outfield (Kelly?)

But that's the only two real centerfielders and they're both hurt.

[Frayed Knot]

Lagares missing any time would certainly cement an OD roster spot for Conforto as well.
As much as he's earned a spot this spring regardless of what everyone else is doing -- he hit a LONG HR off RA Dickey (whose beard is starting to go gray) today and had at least one other hit -- he'd be neither
the starter nor the logical late inning replacement with the current crew as is so there is some logic to him starting the year in Vegas.

I'd prefer a more versatile type off the bench (Kelly, TJ Rivera, etc.) than say Taijeron if neither Nimmo nor Lagares can answer the bell. Four full-time capable OFs plus those two (plus Reyes?) should be fine.

Lagares is insisting this one isn't serious -- not nearly as bad as when he did the right side oblique last year he says -- but of course that's what they always say.
Terry is saying we'll see how he is tomorrow.



Sewald pitched a tidy 9th in his bid to be last man in the pen although Edgin did likewise in the 8th.

[Edgy MD]

It certainly adds to the urgency to get Reyes some work in the outfield.

[ashie62]

Add Nimmo's hamstring.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/6743/brandon-nimmo

[Frayed Knot]

Results of Lagares's MRI "better than we hoped" sez Terry (as relayed by Anthony DiComo @mlb.com)
Lagares adds that he's "almost 100%" while the Mets pronounce themselves to be "a bit more optimistic" that he'll be healthy enough to make the OD roster