Last Friday, Jefry Marte broke his left wrist in the Arizona Fall League.  According to Mets Farm Director Adam Wogan, Marte it was a distal radial fracture and after having surgery in New York, the team expects him to be at “full go before spring training.”

The radius is one of two bones in the arm, and distal simply refers to the wrist end as opposed to the elbow end.

This past season, Albert Pujols suffered a distal radial fracture, and faced with a diagnosis that he would miss 4-6 weeks, (some experts suggested he would need more time), returned to the field in a mere two and a half.  The man is a machine.

In other mortals, wrist injuries tend to linger and sap a player’s power.  There’s never really a good time to break a wrist, but Marte should have plenty of time for a full recovery coming off a statistically impressive showing in the Fall League.