NEW YORK -- Mets outfielder Yoenis Céspedes underwent surgery on Thursday to repair multiple fractures in his right ankle, the Mets announced after their 6-4 win over the Nationals at Citi Field. He will not return this season.

Cespedes missed the first seven weeks of this year rehabbing from multiple heel surgeries, then broke his ankle in a “violent fall” on his ranch in Florida on Saturday, according to general manager Brodie Van Wagenen. The earliest Cespedes can return is Opening Day 2020, at which point he will be 34 years old, and 21 months removed from his last professional game. He is under contract through the end of next season, though the Mets are recouping a significant portion of that $110 million deal via insurance.

Neither Van Wagenen nor others close to Cespedes would comment on the nature of his fall, except to say that it occurred during a non-baseball activity -- not as a result of riding or caring for the horses he owns on that property. When asked if Cespedes was in any way in violation of his contract, Van Wagenen declined comment.

“We haven’t even thought about implications to a contract,” said Van Wagenen, the lead agent who negotiated Cespedes’ four-year, $110 million deal before becoming the Mets’ GM. “Our focus right now is on the player’s health.”

Since signing his contract, Cespedes has appeared in just 119 games, missing significant time due to hamstring and hip injuries, and eventually to the heel surgeries he underwent last August and October. Cespedes was in the process of recovering from those operations -- he recently began a jogging program and had been swinging a bat -- when he suffered his fall. The Mets’ hope was that he would have been able to return at some point in the second half.

So continues Cespedes’ turbulent Mets tenure, which he began as one of the most productive Trade Deadline acquisitions in Major League history in 2015. Bashing 17 home runs down the stretch that year to lead the Mets to the playoffs, Cespedes re-signed on a three-year, $75 million contract that winter. He opted out after a single season, then re-signed again after that, this time on a four-year, $110 million contract with a full no-trade clause.

The Mets also invested in an insurance policy on that contract, using it to recoup some portion of his salary. But chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon has said that the team counts Cespedes’ entire contract as part of its payroll, regardless of how much the Mets recoup.

When healthy, Cespedes has produced, batting .282 with 26 homers and an .869 OPS the past two seasons. The Mets can only hope he can still be a productive player for them in 2020.