NEW YORK -- Francisco Lindor underwent a right elbow operation after the completion of the 2025 regular season, the Mets announced Wednesday, but the shortstop is expected to make a full recovery before the start of Spring Training.
The surgery, a right elbow debridement, came two years after Lindor underwent a procedure to remove bone spurs from the same elbow.
Despite numerous injuries over the past three years, Lindor has remained one of baseball’s modern iron men, averaging 157 games per season in those campaigns. He appeared in all but two games in 2025, leading the Majors with 732 plate appearances. The only games Lindor missed came at the beginning of June, when he broke his right pinky toe after being hit on the foot by a slider from the Dodgers’ Tony Gonsolin.
Any lingering discomfort from that injury did not appear to impact Lindor’s on-field performance. Despite a midseason slump, he posted an .812 OPS and reached the 30-30 mark for the second time in his career, recording 31 home runs and 31 stolen bases. Lindor also made his first All-Star team with the Mets and, earlier on Wednesday, was named a Silver Slugger finalist.
Since arriving in Queens, Lindor has developed a reputation for not only playing through pain, but thriving in spite of it. In 2022, he missed only one game after accidentally slamming a finger in a hotel door and fracturing it. A year later, Lindor played the entire season with bone spurs in his right elbow, which began causing discomfort the first week of Spring Training.
Lindor also battled lower back discomfort down the stretch in 2024, missing around two weeks before returning to lead the Mets to within two games of the NL pennant.
Lindor, who will turn 32 next month, has six seasons and $204.6 million remaining on the 10-year, $341 million contract he signed in 2021.