{"id":257935,"date":"2026-06-07T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:58:11","slug":"mets-jorge-polanco-pulled-from-rehab-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257935\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Jorge Polanco pulled from rehab assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 Jorge Polanco\u2019s imminent return to the Mets may not be so imminent.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran infielder was removed from his minor league rehab assignment on Saturday due to ankle soreness, according to the team, and will return to New York for further evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Polanco was previously scheduled to play for Triple-A Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets had originally hoped he would rejoin the club on this road trip, but manager Carlos Mendoza indicated on Friday that Polanco needed to build up at-bats and innings at first base for Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Polanco, who arrived on a two-year contract worth $40 million, was placed on the injured list with a right wrist contusion on April 15, but at the time was dealing with left Achilles bursitis.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39603074\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/11-reacts-walks-back-dugout-124684593.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets second baseman Jorge Polanco walking back to the dugout.\" class=\"wp-image-39603074\"  \/>Jorge Polanco is pictured during the Mets\u2019 March 29 game. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks Mendoza said Polanco would likely have to play through some level of discomfort in the ankle this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Jorge Polanco\u2019s imminent return to the Mets may not be so imminent. The veteran infielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38995,20,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":["post-257935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}