After all these years, all the discussion, all the consternation, all the top-10-round picks, all the bullpen conversions, all the flame-outs, all the injuries... Duane Underwood is going to be the one Theo draft pick that sticks in our rotation.
Did they mention inflammation in his shoulder or something? How do you go from a pitcher complaining about shoulder pain to a lat strain? That's weird. Syndergaard tore his lat muscle IIRC so that's why he missed so much time, but you are correct about how tricky lat injuries can be. Yeah. I didn't mean to compare it to Syndergaard, but was only meaning to show that lat injuries aren't good and a lot of pitchers that break down have suffered lat injuries. And it's a hard thing to diagnose correctly. It often ends up worse than imagined.
They could be toying with the 10-day DL, too, though. But if you head over to Mets Refugees, I'm sure they've heard something similar about 30 times. Lat strains are often thought to be minor when that turns out not to be the case, and those things can linger, too.