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May 20, 2021
Despite all the injuries the Mets are dealing with including losing two key regulars to hamstring injuries in the same inning on Sunday and then two more players the next day they still lead the NL East with a 20-17 record while the Braves lag behind and languish below .500 at 20-23. The latter’s hopes for a fourth straight division title have taken a significant hit over the past several days with their own losses of two starting pitchers. Mike Soroka, who had yet to appear for the team this year, underwent exploratory surgery on his inflamed right Achilles tendon on Monday, while Huascar Ynoa was diagnosed with a fracture in his right hand sustained when he punched a dugout bench in frustration on Sunday, thus interrupting a breakout season. Both will be out until at least the All-Star break, and quite possibly longer than that.
Mets Morning News: The Dampa in Tampa
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The Mets lost Sunday’s game to Tampa Bay in which they also lost the entire series, Michael Conforto, and Jeff McNeil. Yeah, that’s a bit of a downer, but Pat Mazeika hit a home run so that’s neat at least.
Choose your recap: Amazin’ Avenue
Rays acquire INF/OF Wyatt Mathisen for Arizona, complicate depth chart
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The Tampa Bay Rays have made an interesting acquisition, trading cash considerations to the Arizona Diamondbacks for the recently designated right-handed hitter Wyatt Mathisen.
The 27-year old was the 69th overall pick in the 2012 draft out of high school, and didn’t begin to pop on offense until he repeated High-A in 2016 in the Pirates organization, but went unused at the major league level and eventually elected free agency following the 2018 season.
Mathisen signed with the Diamondbacks as a minor league free agent and dominated in 2019 with a 139 wRC+ and 23 homeruns, but was not promoted until the pandemic shortened season. Between his cups of coffee in 2020 and 2021, Mathesin has a career .159 average and .298 OBP over 32 games (89 plate appearances) with three home runs.