{"id":663477,"date":"2026-04-04T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:52:14","slug":"juan-soto-calf-jorge-polanco-decision-christian-scott-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663477\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto calf, Jorge Polanco decision, Christian Scott debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">The New York Mets have played just over a week of baseball and with it have come new injuries as well as the return of some in the minors who were already ailing. What\u2019s the latest on those walking wounded?<\/p>\n<p>The latest on Mets players playing through injuriesJuan Soto\u2019s calf and what&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">Despite the hit barrage on Friday, Juan Soto wasn\u2019t a participant beyond the first inning. It seems as if the Mets bats decided that without their MVP candidate they\u2019d wake up, finally. Soto appeared to hurt his calf running first to third early in the win over the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Juan Soto left the game after running the bases in the first inning <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R2JJ3uE7Lh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/R2JJ3uE7Lh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNY_Mets\/status\/2040256541060665370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">He\u2019ll receive imaging on Saturday to determine what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s the second significant lower-half injury the Mets are dealing with, the other which with Soto out for any amount of time might force the team into a decision.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Juan Soto will receive imaging Saturday on his calf, says Carlos Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPost_Mets\/status\/2040301106820272280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a>If Juan Soto is going to miss any time at all, Jorge Polanco may need to hit the IL<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Jorge Polanco was out of the Mets lineup again on Friday and his loss was only felt when the team saw Juan Soto exit. He\u2019s trying to battle through, but as we saw when the Mets had to replace Soto with Tyrone Taylor, the team is already weakened.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carlos Mendoza says that Jorge Polanco is feeling &#8220;better today&#8221; as he deals with Achilles tendonitis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d2ZP6YhmZH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/d2ZP6YhmZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SNY (@SNYtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNYtv\/status\/2040224144839590082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Teams can generally manage with one regular out of the lineup. A four-man bench has enough choices to get them through a couple of games. The Mets will find it difficult to have both Polanco and Soto watching from the sidelines and no additional players brought in. If Polanco\u2019s Achilles isn\u2019t getting any better, it might be time to put him on the IL. Not only is the starting lineup difficult to manage, having only two players available off the bench will make it almost impossible to get through most games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">What\u2019s more, Soto could benefit from some time as a DH.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Scott didn\u2019t have a good Friday<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">It was appropriate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/mud-hens-vs-mets\/2026\/04\/03\/815691\/final\/box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Scott to make his regular season debut<\/a> yesterday, but unfortunately he got lit up. He lasted 65 pitches and 3.1 innings. 6 earned runs and another unearned were charged to his stat line.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Working back from Tommy John surgery, the positive is he threw strikes with 46 of them called as such plus zero walks. The negative is he allowed two home runs. Scott is competing with Jonah Tong as one of the first Mets starters to get called up. However, with the big league rotation six-deep with Sean Manaea and able to put Tobias Myers in a position to start as well, it could be a while with performances like these.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets have played just over a week of baseball and with it have come new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-663477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348659211234113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}