Yoenis Cespedes‘s heels led to season-ending surgery:
He will undergo two heel surgeries, the team announced Wednesday. Cespedes is expected to miss eight to 10 months as he recovers, although there is a possibility his rehab time will be longer.
Assistant general manager John Ricco also revealed Cespedes will undergo the first surgery and then two to three months later, he will have the second to allow time to partially recover from the first. Ricco also said the Mets have an insurance policy on Cespedes’ contract, but the team has not had the chance to revise it’s baseball operations yet.
So with his injuries that occurred already, the Mets could lose a year and a half of Cespedes’s four year contract.
I really don’t understand the staggered surgeries. Maybe for the average Joe it’s a matter of being able to get around on crutches, but you’d think cutting 2-3 months off recovery time would be worth enough that the Mets would find ways to make simultaneous surgery work.