Triple-A catcher Francisco Alvarez, the No. 1-rated prospect in baseball, has been coping with an ankle damage and can endure testing in New York within the coming days earlier than it's decided how a lot time he will probably be sidelined.
The 20-year-old Alvarez has been evaluated beforehand and the Mets don’t imagine it’s something critical, but it surely’s potential the group will take a cautious strategy and sit him for the rest of the season.
Alvarez has belted 24 house runs with an .859 OPS in 99 video games with Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Syracuse this season. However he solely was batting .180 in 111 at-bats since his promotion final month earlier than struggling the ankle damage on Tuesday.
Eduardo Escobar’s return from the injured listing didn’t imply a departure for rookie Brett Baty.
Buck Showalter indicated he envisions having room for each third basemen to minimize the stretch, doubtless with the lefty-swinging Baty getting some at-bats in opposition to right-handed pitching and the switch-hitting Escobar within the lineup from the precise aspect in opposition to lefties.
“[Escobar] is taking part in tonight, he’s taking part in third base, and we’ll see how he feels and the way it goes,” Showalter mentioned earlier than Saturday’s 3-0 win over Colorado. “We’ll attempt to get him going a little bit bit. However we like what Brett’s doing. And there’s a state of affairs the place we’ll attempt to handle each of their talent units.”
The 22-year-old Baty ripped the primary Citi Subject house run of his profession in Friday’s 7-6 comeback victory over the Rockies, marking the primary time he went deep since his preliminary big-league plate look on Aug. 17 in Atlanta. Escobar, who had suffered a left indirect pressure the day prior to this, performed Thursday and Friday evening for Single-A Brooklyn, getting a number of at-bats from either side of the plate.
Escobar went 0-for-3 Saturday evening and is batting .248 with six homers and a .798 OPS in 131 plate appearances from the precise aspect, however .199 with six homers and a .588 OPS in 276 plate appearances from the left.
Showalter added that Luis Guillorme’s eventual return from a groin pressure additionally may influence his third-base rotation “down the street, and hopefully earlier than later.”
Carlos Carrasco (left indirect pressure) will throw a simulated recreation at Citi Subject on Monday’s off day, Showalter mentioned, earlier than a choice is made on a possible rehab project. … The Mets optioned Connor Gray to Syracuse and designated infielder Yolmer Sanchez for project.
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