Taylor gave the Mets life with his ninth inning home run and continues to play a tremendous defensive center field for them. Despite a poor .592 OPS on the season, he has a hit in his last three games and has started 14 of the 17 games since Jose Siri went on the injured list. The Mets have been trying Jeff McNeil in center field a bit to keep Luisangel Acuña in the lineup more often, but it’s clear that they’re sacrificing defense if so. Taylor steals enough bases with regular playing time to be borderline viable in very deep leagues.

Taylor, now the Mets’ regular center fielder with Jose Siri injured, is batting .188/.224/.266 in 67 plate appearances, and he’s not quite playing Siri-level defense in the process. It’s hard to see the Mets really getting away with using Jeff McNeil out there, but maybe they’ll instead start Luisangel Acuña some in center with McNeil back Friday. Acuña has yet to play the position in the majors, but he did start 31 games there in Triple-A last year.

Taylor will get a break after starting the first two games. Jose Siri is getting the start against Spencer Arrighetti and the Houston bullpen.

The Mets announced those operations for Taylor on Friday, and also said that the average timeline for return for both operations was around two months. That should put the outfielder back in plenty of time for spring training, but obviously a complication with either injury could see that timeline change.