"Mets Should Have Insisted Noah Syndergaard Have MRI" - David Lennon

It's a shame that Noah Syndergaard could miss three months and possibly more of what began as a very promising season because of the partial tear in a lat muscle revealed by Monday's MRI. It would be a crime, however, if the Mets don't learn from the series of missteps that led to his taking the mound Sunday at Nationals Park. "It wouldn't be far-fetched," said Leesa Galatz, MD, system chair of the orthopaedics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galatz said biceps tendinitis often is diagnosed first because it's more common, whereas a strain or tear of the lat muscle occurs much less frequently. The symptoms can vary in severity, but with the two areas linked together during a pitcher's throwing motion, it seems a stretch to say they are completely independent of each other.

- Leesa Galatz, MD, Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, System Chair, Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai Health System

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