The Mets have officially lost one of their lefty relief arms.
Génesis Cabrera was designated for assignment this weekend to make room for a fresh arm from Triple-A.
After clearing waivers and being outrighted back to the minors, the southpaw elected to once again hit the open market as a free agent.
Cabrera signed with the Mets this offseason on a minor league deal, and he was impressive during spring training but didn’t land a spot on the team coming out of camp.
With the big-league club dealing with injuries, though, he was called upon to provide some help out of the bullpen and he threw relatively well — pitching to a 3.52 ERA and 1.30 WHIP across seven appearances.
New York currently has José Castillo and Brandon Waddell as their only southpaws, with AJ Minter sidelined for the remainder of the season and Brooks Raley still working his way back from Tommy John surgery.
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