{"id":680500,"date":"2026-04-21T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:40:18","slug":"mets-set-date-for-juan-soto-to-return-from-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680500\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets set date for Juan Soto to return from injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Soto<\/a>\u2019s return appears imminent.<\/p>\n

The Mets<\/a> are expected to activate the superstar slugger on Wednesday after a nearly three-week stint<\/a> on the injured list, according to multiple reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday night\u2019s series opener against the Minnesota Twins at Citi Field was set to be the 15th game in a row missed by Soto since he suffered a minor right calf strain while running the bases on April 3.<\/p>\n

The Mets won that game after Soto exited in the first inning, as well as each of their next three. But the Mets entered Tuesday on an 11-game losing streak since then, with their offense managing only 19 runs, or 1.7 per game, during that stretch.<\/p>\n

The return of Soto should help that scuffling offense. He is hitting .355 (11-for-31) with a home run, five RBI and a .928 OPS in eight games this season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s after Soto set career highs with 43 home runs and 38 stolen bases in 2025, the first season of his 15-year, $765 million contract with the Mets.<\/p>\n

Soto did not express much concern after tweaking his right calf, and the Mets waited a few days before placing him on the IL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve experienced calf tightness before,\u201d Soto, 27, said on April 4. \u201cThis definitely is not the worst I\u2019ve felt. So I feel positive with where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Mets ultimately exercised caution with the four-time All-Star, giving him time to heal rather than risk him re-aggravating the strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Soto\u2019s return appears imminent. The Mets are expected to activate the superstar slugger on Wednesday after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,2540,134,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-680500","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-injured-list","10":"tag-juan-soto","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116444163177660701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680500","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=680500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}