{"id":681287,"date":"2026-04-22T20:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681287\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:15:19","slug":"mets-news-juan-soto-reinstate-from-il-senger-optioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681287\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets News: Juan Soto reinstate from IL, Senger optioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mets have officially <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mets\/status\/2047030468034330839\" rel=\"nofollow\">reinstated Juan Soto<\/a> from the injured list, and he\u2019ll serve as designated hitter and bat second tonight as the Mets face Twins left-handed pitcher Connor Prielipp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a corresponding move, the Mets optioned catcher Hayden Senger to Triple-A Syracuse. The team had previously been carrying three catchers\u2014Francisco Alvarez, Luis Torrens, and Senger\u2014but will proceed with two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since Soto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazinavenue.com\/new-york-mets-news\/92474\/mets-juan-soto-injury-leg-leave-game-early-new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exited early<\/a> from an April 3 game against San Francisco with a right calf strain, the Mets have gone 4-12, with all dozen losses coming as part of an ongoing 12-game losing streak. Over the course of those twelve games, the Mets have scored just 22 runs, and the team\u2019s 75 runs scored on the season rank last in baseball. In other words, they\u2019re certainly hoping Soto, who was batting .355 with a .928 OPS in eight games before getting hurt, can pick up right where he left off.<br \/>Senger, meanwhile, didn\u2019t get any in-game action during his few days on the active roster after being recalled on Saturday. He will join a Syracuse lineup that is currently seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/gameday\/mets-vs-red-sox\/2026\/04\/21\/815538\/final\/box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far better times<\/a> than the major league squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have officially reinstated Juan Soto from the injured list, and he\u2019ll serve as designated hitter and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-681287","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-mets-news","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116450199068716481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681287","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=681287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}