{"id":225474,"date":"2026-04-09T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:18:07","slug":"mets-reliever-a-j-minter-begins-rehab-assignment-with-perfect-inning-at-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225474\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets reliever A.J. Minter begins rehab assignment with perfect inning at Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mets<\/a> left-hander A.J. Minter<\/a> began his rehab assignment with a clean inning at Single-A Port St. Lucie on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The reliever had a quick outing, needing only nine pitches to get the three batters he faced, including a strikeout looking, aided by a timely ABS challenge.<\/p>\n

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Speaking in Queens ahead of Thursday\u2019s game<\/a>, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza indicated it could still be a bit of time before the 32-year-old reliever is ready to pitch again in the big leagues as he looks to return from a torn left lat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started the clock,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cIt will be one of those where, if we have to use every single day, we will. But the fact that he\u2019s in real competition is a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minter averaged 93 mph on his four fastballs, which was down 1.5 mph from his average last season. He got one whiff on three swings, which came on his hardest heater of the afternoon at 93.5 mph.<\/p>\n

The cutter was good, getting three called strikes on four pitches, including the put-away on the strikeout. His average velocity of 89.8 was right in line with his average from a year ago.<\/p>\n

The Mets have 30 days for Minter to complete his rehab, which puts him on track for a late-April or early-May return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets left-hander A.J. Minter began his rehab assignment with a clean inning at Single-A Port St. Lucie on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[101764,76042,42159,171,173,172,101763],"class_list":["post-225474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-a-j-minter","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-mets","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-rehab-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}