New York Mets' second baseman Brett Baty discussed his recent play Wednesday after a loss to the Miami Marlins.

Mets manager Carlos Mandoza announced the injury news on on Tuesday that McNeil is expected to begin a rehab assignment soon after recovering from a strained oblique suffered in Spring Training ( via SNY ).

The Marlins aren’t a team as much as a baseball laboratory conceived to test-drive a bunch of players and tradition-bucking theories from how to prepare pitchers in between starts to when to play their infield in. They also will play 162 games because the rules mandate that.