The Mets announced on Sunday afternoon that catcher Francisco Alvarez has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse. Catcher Hayden ...

The 23-year-old Alvarez owns a .236/.319/.333 slash line with three homers and 11 RBIs on 35 games for the Mets this season.

The Mets optioned Alvarez to Triple-A Syracuse on Sunday. Alvarez went 2-for-5 with a solo homer and an additional run scored in Saturday's game at Philadelphia, but the Mets will still send him to ...

Francisco Alvarez needed the opportunity to work on his game and play every day, leading to the decision finalized by Mets brass Sunday. The struggling 23-year-old catcher was optioned to Triple-A ...

B oston Red Sox shortstop prospect Yoeilin Cespedes (hand) has been diagnosed with a broken hamate bone in his left hand, according to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe. The 18-year-old will likely ...

He tore a ligament in his left thumb last April ... which is on the lower outside edge of the hand. In hamate bone surgery, the bone is removed altogether, so hitters suffer from this problem ...

You can add catcher Francisco Alvarez to the growing list of players ruled out of the Mets’ Opening Day roster. On Sunday, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza revealed that Alvarez had fractured the ...

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. PORT ST. LUCIE — Francisco Alvarez was back in Mets camp ...

The catcher fractured the hamate bone in his left hand and will undergo surgery Monday that will sideline him for 6-8 weeks, according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Alvarez sustained the fracture on ...

Manager Carlos Mendoza revealed to reporters on Sunday that the 23-year-old catcher will undergo surgery to repair a broken left hamate bone (hand), which will force him to miss six to eight weeks.

An MRI revealed a hamate fracture in his left hand, a fairly common injury around baseball with a timeline of 6-8 weeks to return. Alvarez doesn’t want to wait that long. “Maybe six weeks ...

Yoeilin Cespedes, one of the top prospects in the Red Sox system, has a broken hamate bone in his left hand that will likely require surgery, interrupting what had been one of the standout ...