New York Mets starting pitcher Sean Manaea hit another setback in his efforts to join the team’s starting rotation for the 2025 season.
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza announced Tuesday that the veteran left-hander will be shut down for two weeks after he received a platelet-rich plasma injection to accelerate the healing of a right oblique strain. The team hoped that Manaea would join the starting rotation around the middle of April. However, this development has pushed his timetable back to at least late May.
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“He experienced some discomfort a couple of days ago while he was starting to ramp up,” Mendoza told reporters. “We took an MRI again, and it showed inflammation, so he got a PRP injection [on Monday].”
Manaea, 33, was shut down in late February due to the oblique strain. He resumed throwing March 10 and followed a typical spring training routine of six weeks to build up for the regular season. Now that timetable has likely been reset with Manaea shut down again.
“He’s gonna go two weeks of no throwing, and then we’ve got to start building him back up again,” Mendoza added. “We have to revisit and see where we’re at after that.”
