The Mets announced Tuesday that reliever Trevor May will be heading to the 15-day IL with right triceps inflammation.
Adonis Medina has been recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to take May's spot on the roster.
May told reporters following the Mets' 5-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Monday night that he's been pitching through an injury, which could be attributed to his less-than-stellar 2022 campaign.
"I’m not feeling 100 percent healthy. Trying to work through some stuff. Not really battling through it," May said. "It’s hard to compete when you’re just worried if something is going to hurt when you throw, to the point where I’m not very comfortable throwing my best pitches and taking too much time in between pitches to reset and try to get a little bit of energy to throw another one. By the end [of my outing] I was hoping that the ball was hit to someone. That’s no way to throw in a major league game."
Down 3-2 in the eighth inning, May was called upon to keep the game close. However, the 32-year-old gave up two runs in an inning of work, ballooning his ERA to 8.64.
"I don’t deserve it but my teammates definitely don’t deserve that. You have to keep the team in the game and it got away from us there," May said. "That’s as frustrating as anything in my life right now. ...It feels like I’m throwing at 80 percent most of the time."
Back in 2016, as a member of the Minnesota Twins, May suffered a stress fracture in his back that led to him missing significant time.
"I’ll do anything to get back to feeling like me. ...I need to know what to do to feel good again. ...I just want to go out there and go after guys. That’s all I want," he said.