{"id":682641,"date":"2026-04-25T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682641\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:15:14","slug":"latest-on-francisco-lindors-recovery-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682641\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Francisco Lindor’s Recovery Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francisco Lindor<\/a> was placed on the Mets\u2019 10-day injured list on Thursday due to a left calf strain, and the team now has a loose idea about how long the All-Star shortstop may be out of action.\u00a0 Manager Carlos Mendoza and president of baseball operations David Stearns told reporters (including the New York Post\u2019s Jake Nisse<\/a>) yesterday that Lindor will be in a walking boot for the next week, and will be fully re-evaluated in three weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

If all goes well, Lindor projects to be back in the Mets\u2019 lineup before the end of May.\u00a0 Supposing that Lindor is given the green light in mid-May after his three-week shutdown, he\u2019ll need at least a week of baseball activities and workouts to bring him back up to speed, plus at least a couple of rehab games.<\/p>\n

This is just the best-case scenario, however.\u00a0 A more concrete timeline can\u2019t be established until after Lindor is re-evaluated, and it is certainly possible that his calf might still be sore after three weeks\u2019 time.\u00a0 Calf injuries have been known to linger or even to be season-threatening in more severe cases, though there isn\u2019t any sign that Lindor\u2019s issue is anything that serious.<\/p>\n

It has already been an injury-marred season for Lindor, as he missed most of Spring Training due to hamate bone surgery.\u00a0 Lindor was able to make it back and play a few Grapefruit League games before the end of camp and avoided a season-opening stint on the injured list, yet it seems like the missed time had an impact.\u00a0 Lindor has a modest .226\/.314\/.355 slash line over his first 105 plate appearances, far below his usual standard.<\/p>\n

Even if Lindor is able to return by late May, losing their star shortstop for \u201conly\u201d a month is still a major blow for the struggling Mets to try and overcome.\u00a0 New York has a dismal 9-17 record and is already 9.5 games behind the Braves for first place in the NL East.\u00a0 Virtually the entire Mets lineup is off to a collective slow start at the plate, and the loss of Juan Soto<\/a> (to a calf strain of his own) for just shy of three weeks only worsened the offensive power outage.<\/p>\n

Ronny Mauricio<\/a> probably isn\u2019t the answer to these batting woes, as Mauricio has hit only .236\/.294\/.357 over 303 career plate appearances in the majors.\u00a0 However, Mauricio is a former top prospect who has a history of crushing Triple-A pitching, so he\u2019ll get another chance to break out as the expected regular shortstop in Lindor\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor was placed on the Mets\u2019 10-day injured list on Thursday due to a left calf strain,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-682641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-francisco-lindor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116466714133156768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682641","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=682641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}