It should be pretty obvious by now that an inhuman spate of injuries has undermined the first two months of the Mets’ season.
The optimists out there will say there’s plenty of baseball left, and therefore plenty of time for people like Yoenis Cespedes, Steven Matz and, yes, even Noah Syndergaard to get healthy again and lead a late-season charge up the NL East ladder.
But as true as that might be, it is equally true that some injuries count more than others. Not that ace Syndergaard’s torn lat muscle should be minimized, or that anyone should shrug off the tight quad that has delayed slugger Cespedes’ rehab from a strained left hamstring, but the Mets have compensated for both of them.