Whenever a Mets player goes down with an injury, Mets fans are internally programmed to assume the worst. It’s a reaction that’s been honed over the years. Did someone sneeze the wrong way? Get ready for that to somehow turn into season-ending surgery.
It wasn’t like that very often in 2022, though. Outside of Jacob deGrom not debuting until August and Starling Marte missing the final month, New York stayed reasonably healthy (regarding serious maladies) during a 101-win campaign. Naturally, that makes what’s happened over the past few days even more unnerving.
Edwin Diaz’s season is over before it can even start.