Mets' Francisco Lindor will be out 'quite a bit' due to calf injury

NEW YORK — A day after getting one superstar back from a calf strain, the Mets put another one on the injured list with a calf strain. And the early expectation is that Francisco Lindor’s injury will force him to take more time, perhaps significantly more time, to return than Juan Soto’s.While the Mets have yet to provide a specific timeline for Lindor’s return or a grade of severity for his strain, manager Carlos Mendoza said the shortstop will be out “for quite a bit” and for longer than the 19 days Soto missed with his own calf strain.“Juan was kind of the best-case scenario,” Mendoza said of Soto’s Grade 1 strain. “I don’t think we’re dealing with the same thing here.”Advertisement