Amid a nine-game losing streak, the New York Mets have placed designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list with a right wrist contusion, the team announced on Saturday.Polanco, 32, sustained the injury during Tuesday’s 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He batted 0-for-4 in the game with two strikeouts. “It’s a wrist contusion, like a bone bruise,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters before Saturday’s game with the Chicago Cubs.

The Mets don't have a timetable for when Jorge Polanco will return from the 10-day IL pic.twitter.com/Af3qnr5vZQ— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) April 18, 2026"When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn't,” Mendoza continued. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took [Tuesday] night… It just got worse the following day.”Polanco has also been dealing with bursitis in his left Achilles tendon, but that condition was improving, according to Mendoza. That injury has contributed to the veteran’s slow start to the 2026 season after signing a two-year, $40 million deal with the Mets.

He’s played in 14 of the team’s 20 games.In 61 plate appearances, Polanco has a .179/.246/.286 slash line with three doubles, one home run and two RBI. Though it’s early in the season, that production is far below the 26 homers, 30 doubles and 78 RBI he compiled last year for the Seattle Mariners, batting .265/.326/.495 in 524 PAs. To take Polanco’s spot on the major-league roster, catcher Hayden Senger was called up from Triple-A Syracuse.

In 12 games this season, he has five home runs and 11 RBI to go with a .257/.316/.714 slash line. Mendoza told reporters he wanted Senger as another right-handed catcher that can allow him to use Luis Torrens as a pinch-hitter or put Francisco Alvarez at DH. The Mets have lost nine consecutive games going into Saturday’s matinee, the team’s longest losing streak since 11 straight defeats in 2004. At 7-13, the Mets are currently last in the National League East, 1.5 games behind the fourth-place Philadelphia Phillies.