{"id":195850,"date":"2025-09-03T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:03:15","slug":"jesse-winkers-season-with-mets-all-but-over-after-injury-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195850\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Winker&#8217;s season with Mets all but over after injury setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 Jesse Winker\u2019s season likely won\u2019t have another act.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets outfielder, who last week began a minor league rehab assignment with Single-A St. Lucie, has been shut down from baseball activities because of lower back discomfort, according to manager Carlos Mendoza, and is unlikely to return this year.<\/p>\n<p>Winker, 32, re-signed with the Mets last offseason on a one-year contract worth $7.5 million. In 81 plate appearances over 26 games he produced a .229\/.309\/.400 slash line with one homer and 10 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Winker was placed on the injured list on May 6 with an oblique strain. He returned July 8 and had just three plate appearances before he was placed on the IL with back discomfort.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41046832;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37004389\" width=\"832\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/atlanta-braves-vs-new-york-107151574.jpg\" alt=\"Jessie Winker of the New York Mets in the dugout.\" class=\"wp-image-37004389\"  \/>Jessie Winker is unlikely to play again for the Mets this season. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>His latest rehab assignment consisted of two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe missed that bat,\u201d Mendoza said when asked about Winker\u2019s absence. \u201cGuys will continue to step up and get opportunities. At this point it sucks for Wink, but he\u2019s got to get [his back] right. We have got to keep going here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 Jesse Winker\u2019s season likely won\u2019t have another act. The Mets outfielder, who last week began a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27640,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-195850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jesse-winker","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115138383333568786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}