Jed Lowrie Has Returned Home To Houston, Thus Ending His Mets Career Despite The Team Not Giving Any Updates That He Is Out For The Year
Newsday- One of Brodie Van Wagenen’s biggest disasters as Mets general manager has come to its inevitable conclusion. Jed Lowrie will not play this season, which ends next weekend, because of left knee problems that have bothered him for more than 18 months, sources familiar with the situation acknowledged Wednesday.
Further, Lowrie has not been reporting to a team facility, instead retreating to his offseason home in Houston, a source added. He has not been able to do baseball activities while receiving a series of platelet-rich plasma and stem cell injections in his left knee. In two seasons with the team, he went 0-for-7 and never played the field.
The Mets have not provided an update on Lowrie in more than a month, when they mentioned the injections. On Wednesday, for the second time in as many weeks, manager Luis Rojas said he didn’t have any information. "I have no idea right now what his progression is," Rojas said.
That club officials have refused to say publicly that he is out for the year or offer any sort of update is the latest — and maybe last — twist in this bizarre injury saga, which has featured virtually zero transparency from the player and organization, plus occasions when Lowrie and his bosses seemed not to be on the same page.
Don't wanna say I told ya so, but...
No, I'm not counting Jed's seven (7) at bats last year when the season was essentially over and he didn't even take the field. That reeeeeeeks of the Wilpon Special of wheeling a guy out for P.R. reasons.
I'm pretty sure we've covered Jed Lowrie's slow demise into a Field of Dreams baseball ghost more than enough considering this blog is longer than his total time on the field in a Mets uniform and I'd hate for this to become a distraction!
So instead of ripping a guy whose body is already torn to shreds, I will shout out to Brody (misspelled on purpose) for getting his ex-client $20 million despite being the worst fit for the Mets considering both Jed's and the Mets' history with injuries and the Mets already having a younger/cheaper/better version of Jed in Jeff McNeil. I also want to shout out Jed for continuing to try to get back on the field and for introducing a new medical term into our lexicon with PCL Laxity. The 2020 coronaseason may be fraudulent, but it helped get us some solid contenders for the next and last Mets Misery Bracket because none of this type of bullshit will happen under Uncle Stevie. Bad signings, perhaps. Horrific signings that get compounded and reported about because the Mets don't know how to handle anything in the news cycle correctly? No.
Thanks for the memories Jed!
May you rest in pieces.
