Mets Lose Jenrry Mejia for Season, Likely Jason Bay as Well

The Mets only have a few weeks left of what has been another frustrating season riddled with injuries, and it looks as though there are two more names they can add to the list of players they'll be without as it winds down. It doesn't look as though either the team's top free-agent acquisition or their top pitching prospect will be playing any more baseball in 2010.

Jason Bay has been out since suffering a concussion in July against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, and while the team hasn't officially said that Bay's season is over, he himself admits that the chances of him playing again this year are "highly unlikely."

"There's been a few things where you run a little bit too hard and your body is kind of like, 'Let's slow down a little bit,' but no setbacks," Bay told ESPN New York. "There's really nothing that you can do to set it back. It's more just: You do things and you feel good, you do a little bit more. And if you don't feel good, you wait. You just keep piling it up."

As for Jenrry Mejia, the Mets are a bit more concrete on where he stands. Mejia suffered what the team called a "rhomboid strain of the right shoulder blade" which is the way a doctor says he's hurt a muscle near his right shoulder blade.

It's the second time this season the 20-year-old prospect has been shelved due to a strain, suffering what the Mets called a strain in his rotator cuff that kept him out for six weeks in June.

Whatever the case is, Mejia's 2010 season is over as the Mets plan on shutting him down until this latest strain is fully healed.