Drew Smith is expected to miss all or most of this season while recovering from his second Tommy John surgery, but the right-hander should be ready for 2026.

At the very beginning of a new season, Mets relievers Drew Smith and Adbert Alzolay already subscribe to that old autumnal maxim: Wait till next year. They are lingering in the background of Mets spring training,

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Reliever Drew Smith can earn up to $3.75 million over two seasons in his contract with the New York Mets if his 2026 club option is exercised and he pitches

Pete Alonso and the New York Mets finalized their $54 million US, two-year contract on Wednesday as spring training opened in Florida with the team's first formal workout for pitchers and catchers.

Since winning the NL batting title in 2022, McNeil has struggled at the plate, hitting .270 in 2023 and .238 in 2024.

It was a long and arduous process, but even in the midst of rehabbing from a second Tommy John surgery, Drew Smith is glad to be back home with the New York Met

Smith shared those details Monday morning, his first day back at Mets spring training, having returned on a one-year, $1 million contract. He is unlikely to pitch in 2025 as he recovers from his second Tommy John surgery,

However, he isn't expected to pitch until very late in the season, if at all, after undergoing a Tommy John and internal brace hybrid procedure in July, so New York will move him to the 60-day IL to free up a roster spot.

The Mets’ athletic trainers and medical personnel prescribe Alzolay’s workload every day, every step of the way, but Smith has lived the experience — from 2019, when he had his first elbow ligament replacement, and recently, having resumed throwing a few weeks ago.

Drew Smith is expected to miss all or most of this season while recovering from his second Tommy John surgery, but the right-hander should be ready for 2026.

Mets pitcher Drew Smith (33) gets out of the eighth inning when the New York Mets played the San Diego Padres Sunday, June 16, 2024 at Citi Field in Queens, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post Smith, the longest-tenured Mets pitcher (he arrived in the 2017 trade ...