According to all of the Mets beat writers who had a conference call with GM Omar Minaya, OF Fernando Martinez will have surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and will miss 6-8 weeks. If that’s right, he’ll be back sometime in early-mid September.
I gotta hand it to Mike Harrington in the Buffalo News who called this a week ago. Martinez was originally day-to-day, you might recall, and after he was placed on the 15-day DL, Harrington wrote,
Following the pattern of other injured Mets and the way the team’s medical staff has dealt with things, I’d fully expect some weird announcement in a few days that F-Mart is having surgery.
Just another injury for Fernando. I’m sorry, but this is not a good thing.
As annoying as it was to hear this news, I can take it with F-Mart because he is only 20. He Showed he has the talent this year in AAA. It might delay him another year, but still he’ll be 22 which is still younger then most guys.
Toby i got a weird question that only someone with a long history following Minor league baseball would know. It is sometimes a common place thing for really young players to suffer through an assortment of injuries? I only ask this because it’s happened to Jose Reyes, now F-Mart, Shawn Bowman had lots of injury issues when he was a younger draftee (18).
Just wondering if it’s more of a common place thing then taking a player from the college ranks. Because I also read lots of these guys from college were injured one of their years which caused them to fall to the 2nd round or 3rd then when they get in their early to mid 20′s they are fine….
Any insight would be great.
Yea, its not even a surprise any more… Suggesting Maine will be back this month is probably another foolish statement as he’s just started doing some throwing.
What is painful is they actually admitted Beltran is seeing no progress. Translate that from Mets injury lie speak and it suggests Beltran’s career must be over…
Torres makes his appy-league debut tonight