It’s a familiar refrain. At this point, it’s almost a “fill-in-the-blank”. Insert any one of the Mets’ leading players and the injury of your choice into the following sentence: “______ suffered from a _______ and has been placed on the disabled list.” Just this season, Todd Frazier, Yoenis Céspedes, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Jeurys Familia and several others have all found themselves missing time due to various maladies.



For years, it seems, the Mets have struggled with injuries, and failed to reach their full potential because of them – but how many of these injuries have been pure misfortune, and how many have resulted from the Mets’ own organizational structure?



We can visualize the Mets’ continued injury struggles in several different ways. In terms of money spent on players on the disabled list, the Mets have regularly been one of the worst teams in the league – Spotrac.com tracks how...