The Jed Lowrie experiment with the New York Mets is seemingly over. Most Mets fans would probably say it never began in the first place.
The 36-year-old, who has reportedly been dealing with "PCL laxity" and seen sporting a massive knee brace throughout 2020, has returned home to Houston and won't play this season, per Tim Healey of Newsday.
It's the end of a once-promising tenure that began with Lowrie putting pen to paper on a two-year contract with the Mets in January 2019. He appeared in only nine games and tallied seven at-bats with zero hits as he attempted to recover from mysterious lower-body problems during his debut season. He then missed Opening Day this past July and, subsequently, every other day because of a sore knee.
Assuming the Mets complete a full pandemic-shortened campaign through the rest of this month, Lowrie will begin October having been out of action for 213 of a possible 222 games.
Few, if anybody, expect the Mets to offer Lowrie a new deal in the offseason.
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