Doctors of the Plague of the Mets are again on the lookout for Robinson Cano's return in IL

The latest series of updates on the quad injury that hit Mets second baseman Robinson Cano is so familiar that it's hard to absorb them without feeling an intense sense of déjà vu. Let me assure you that this is not news you have ever read, nor a memory of a bubbling past life on the surface of your consciousness. This is just the Mets, as always, being the Mets.

Cano suffered an injury to his left quad on May 22, which earned him a place on the 10-day IL. He missed 12 games and returned to training on June 5 when he had never been rehabilitated. In his first game in return, Cano had a bad pass trying to throw a ball to the ground. He spent the next few days in limbo, and no one in the organization was able to say precisely if Cano had injured his quad again, or if he would need to come back to IL. After the match on June 5, Cano told the press that he had only limped the first because he had did not want to "push". Before Friday's game against the Rockies, he said he felt totally good and able to play that night:

Cano did not play Friday or Saturday, and the team announced today that its quad was injured again on Wednesday and that it would be go back to the 10 day IL.

It is obvious that Cano was not ready to return to the game when the Mets reinstated him in training on Wednesday, and the big question is why they did not have it. first sent on a re-education mission for the minor leagues in order to start his fitness. In response to this question, the Mets Manager, Mickey Callaway, has offered this quote absolutely without reproach:

"He was not feeling the speed of the game the way he wanted to, it's something you really can not reproduce even on a re-education mission because the game is so different," said Callaway. Once you place him in a Major League game, there is always that risk, and we understand it. "

Honestly, it's getting harder and harder to remember the last time the Mets had a star player that they did not hurt with each injury. It's unfortunate that the doctors on the team finally put their hands on Pete Alonso and decide to treat some minor pains by hitting him several times with a tire iron.