Jed Lowrie likely done with Mets after playing just nine games

The Jed Lowrie experiment with the New York Mets is seemingly over. Most Mets fans would probably say it never began in the first place. 

The 36-year-old, who has reportedly been dealing with "PCL laxity" and seen sporting a massive knee brace throughout 2020, has returned home to Houston and won't play this season, per Tim Healey of Newsday.

It's the end of a once-promising tenure that began with Lowrie putting pen to paper on a two-year contract with the Mets in January 2019. He appeared in only nine games and tallied seven at-bats with zero hits as he attempted to recover from mysterious lower-body problems during his debut season. He then missed Opening Day this past July and, subsequently, every other day because of a sore knee.  

Assuming the Mets complete a full pandemic-shortened campaign through the rest of this month, Lowrie will begin October having been out of action for 213 of a possible 222 games. 

Few, if anybody, expect the Mets to offer Lowrie a new deal in the offseason.