{"id":565150,"date":"2026-04-05T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565150\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:28:10","slug":"juan-soto-day-to-day-with-minor-strain-in-right-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565150\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto Day To Day With “Minor Strain” In Right Calf"},"content":{"rendered":"

5:53PM: Soto told SNY<\/a> and other media that the MRI revealed \u201cjust a minor strain\u201d in his right calf.\u00a0 The plan is for Soto to go \u201cday by day and see how it feels.\u00a0 Definitely no decisions made yet [about the injured list].\u00a0 We\u2019re going to see how I wake up for the next couple of days and then go from there.\u201d\u00a0 The Mets have an off-day on Monday, which gives the team some extra time to monitor Soto and potentially make a roster decision before Tuesday\u2019s game with the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

1:09PM:\u00a0Juan Soto<\/a> left yesterday\u2019s 10-3 Mets win over the Giants with what the team described as right calf tightness.\u00a0 Manager Carlos Mendoza told the New York Post\u2019s Mike Puma<\/a> and other reporters postgame that Soto will undergo an MRI today to determine the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n

Soto lasted just a half-inning into Friday\u2019s game, as he picked up the injury while advancing from first to third on a Bo Bichette<\/a> single in the first inning.\u00a0 Soto was retired on a force play at the plate later in the frame, and Tyrone Taylor<\/a> took over for Soto in left field for the bottom half of the first.<\/p>\n

Over 34 plate appearances, Soto has hit .355\/.412\/.516 with one home run in the early stages of the 2026 campaign.\u00a0 The superstar\u2019s hot start has been a bright spot within an inconsistent Mets offense \u2014 beyond yesterday\u2019s rout of the Giants and an 11-7 win over the Pirates on Opening Day, New York has scored only 14 runs over its other six games.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, losing Soto for any amount of time would be a rough break for the Mets\u2019 lineup.\u00a0 Brett Baty<\/a> would likely get the bulk of playing time in left field if Soto is sidelined, with Taylor providing some platoon cover apart from his usual fourth-outfielder duties.\u00a0 Jorge Polanco<\/a> has been limited mostly to DH duty due to his bothersome left Achilles, so Mark Vientos<\/a> (who is also off to a hot start in limited playing time) would see more action at first base if Baty is needed more regularly in left field.<\/p>\n

Soto\u2019s durability is an underrated aspect of his standing as one of baseball\u2019s best players.\u00a0 Over the 2021-25 seasons, Soto played in 783 of a possible 810 games, and he hasn\u2019t been on the injured list since 2021 (when he missed two weeks with a left shoulder strain).\u00a0 The MRI results will determine whether or not this streak of good health will continue, though even if the tests are negative, the Mets could opt to give Soto a 10-day IL stint just as a precaution in order to let him fully heal up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:53PM: Soto told SNY and other media that the MRI revealed \u201cjust a minor strain\u201d in his right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7842,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-565150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-juan-soto","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}