Mets reliever Reed Garrett has Tommy John surgery, expected to miss 2026 season
New York Mets relief pitcher Reed Garrett. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Yet another Mets pitcher is expected to miss the 2026 season.
Reliever Reed Garrett underwent Tommy John surgery Wednesday, the team announced Thursday afternoon. Garrett, about to enter his first season of arbitration, is under team control through 2028.
The righthander joins a slew of other Mets pitchers who underwent the procedure this year. Tylor Megill, who is under team control for two more years but could be non-tendered this offseason, Frankie Montas, Dedniel Nunez and Danny Young also had Tommy John surgery. Nunez and Young had the surgery early enough in the season to have an outside chance of pitching next year.
Garrett hit the injured list twice in the span of a month with a right elbow sprain and was shut down for good in September. He coasted through the first part of the season, not allowing an earned run in his first 13 appearances and posting a 0.68 ERA through his first 27 games. That shifted dramatically in his last 28 games, in which he pitched to a 6.92 ERA.
“He continues to have a hard time recovering after every time he’s pitched,” manager Carlos Mendoza said on Sept. 18. “And then last night, we got him hot, and as he was getting loose in the bullpen, he shut it down. We got a call from [bullpen coach Jose Rosado] to the dugout saying that he couldn’t go anymore.”
Garrett, entering his age-33 season, is 12-11 with a 4.10 ERA in three years with the Mets.
Laura Albanese is a reporter, feature writer and columnist covering local professional sports teams; she began at Newsday in 2007 as an intern.
