Mets Player Meter: Pitchers, September 14-27

The first major pitching injury to emerge was when Robert Stock was placed on the injured list on September 16 with numbness in his fingers—not an encouraging sign as he made his way back from thoracic outlet syndrome surgery. Xzavion Curry was forced into last minute service and started in Stock's place against the Orioles. Unfortunately it did not go well for him. He was knocked around for six runs on six hits—four of them home runs. It was, put simply, a clunker. Curry was immediately sent back down to Triple-A after the game and eventually designated for assignment and outrighted to the FCL Mets.

Both Jefry Yan and Jack Weisenburger lifted heavy loads in that game, pitching three innings apiece in relief in the lopsided loss. Both of them did their jobs; Yan pitched three hitless innings with three strikeouts and Weisenburger gave up a run and struck out five. Weisenburger appeared in two other games—once in the Phillies series and once in the Rangers series—and was not scored upon in either appearance. Yan was much more heavily used to mixed results. He earned the win on Beltran Day with 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Christian Scott , who made his final start of the season in that game before hitting the injured list himself with knee inflammation. Scott fell just short of being the pitcher of record, giving up three runs on six hits in 4 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts. Yan allowed an RBI single to Alec Bohn in the fifth and that run was charged to Scott, but Yan stopped the bleeding there and the Mets took the lead in the bottom of the frame. Yan came right back out the next day and pitched a scoreless inning—following Weisenburger's 1 1/3 scoreless frames—in the Mets' 7-2 loss to the Phillies in the series finale. Yan's final two appearances were unfortunately not as successful. He gave up a solo homer in the sixth to Corey Seager in the series finale against the Rangers and allowed two more baserunners after that, necessitating being bailed out of the jam before completing an inning. He then served as the opener in the very messy bullpen game in Washington DC and was charged with two runs on three hits in 1 2/3 innings of work.

At the same time that Stock was placed on the IL, Daniel Duarte was as well due to a hamstring strain, which unfortunately brought his 2026 season—which was a pleasant surprise—to an end. Yan was promoted in Duarte's stead. It seemed like Yan's season was over when he was optioned back down to the minors after being the first in line of the bullpen disaster in the series opener in DC, but he ended the season on the big league roster because Jonathan Pintaro was placed on the injured list on the season's final day with an illness and Yan replaced him. Pintaro's designation being changed to the red cross at the 11th hour makes the meter look a little better because he struggled in the season's final stretch, especially in the final series against the Nationals. But perhaps the illness played a role in that poor performance. Pintaro appeared twice in the Orioles series on back-to-back days and though he had a scoreless outing in his first appearance, he took the loss in the infamous second game of that series for giving up the inside the park home run in the eleventh.