{"id":769036,"date":"2026-06-30T03:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769036\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:11:17","slug":"marcus-semien-diagnosed-with-grade-3-hip-flexor-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769036\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Semien Diagnosed With Grade 3 Hip Flexor Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Semien<\/a> has been diagnosed with a Grade 3 strain of his left hip flexor, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. That\u2019s the highest severity and indicates a significant muscle tear.<\/p>\n

The Mets have not officially confirmed the diagnosis. However, it seems they\u2019ll be without the veteran second baseman for an extended period. Heyman noted that it\u2019ll likely be upwards of 4-6 weeks, though even that timeline would make for a quick return. For example, Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> suffered the same injury in May 2021 and missed three months. That doesn\u2019t mean Semien is guaranteed to follow the same timeline, of course, but is illustrative of the magnitude of the injury.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s perhaps also an explanation for the worst numbers of Semien\u2019s career. He has hit .214\/.271\/.341 with nine home runs across 318 plate appearances. Semien hasn\u2019t been a great hitter since 2023, but those are personal lows across the board (excluding his 21-game debut season 13 years ago).<\/p>\n

Even if Semien\u2019s bat was already in decline, the Mets expected him to upgrade their infield defense. He won a Gold Glove last season. The defense has also fallen apart, as both Defensive Runs Saved and Outs Above Average feel he has struggled on that side of the ball. He\u2019s tied for sixth-lowest among second basemen by DRS and ahead of only Nick Loftin<\/a> and\u00a0Luke Keaschall<\/a> by Outs Above Average.<\/p>\n

Semien has been charged with six errors this season after committing just two all of last year. The error uptick is mostly on the throwing variety, so perhaps it\u2019s coincidental, but Statcast feels he\u2019s had particular trouble making plays to his left.<\/p>\n

Brett Baty<\/a> has taken over at second base in Semien\u2019s absence.\u00a0Francisco Lindor<\/a> is back at shortstop, bumping\u00a0Bo Bichette<\/a> back to the hot corner. Baty has taken a significant step back this season, hitting .210\/.297\/.292 with three home runs through 277 plate appearances.\u00a0Ronny Mauricio<\/a> is on hand as a backup middle infielder; he\u2019s a lifetime .228\/.281\/.350 hitter in 100 games over three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Mets have two openings on the 40-man roster after trading\u00a0David Peterson<\/a> and outrighting Zack Short<\/a>. There\u2019s no urgency to move Semien to the 60-day injured list, but it seems likely he\u2019ll wind up there eventually.<\/p>\n

The three-time All-Star is signed for two seasons after this one, his ages 36-37 campaigns. He\u2019ll make $26MM next year and $20MM in 2028. The Mets absorbed the final three seasons and $72MM on his deal to get out from the five years and $101.25MM remaining on the Brandon Nimmo<\/a> contract, which was signed the year before they hired David Stearns to run baseball operations. Nimmo, 33, is hitting .262\/.333\/.420 with eight homers in 82 games for the Rangers \u2014 essentially matching the slightly above-average numbers he posted over his final two seasons with the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Semien has been diagnosed with a Grade 3 strain of his left hip flexor, reports Jon Heyman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,68478,591,85],"class_list":["post-769036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}