Wednesday is Howie Rose's last Mets radio broadcast this season

Mets radio announcer Howe Rose will miss the rest of the season after working Wednesday’s game against the Marlins, he announced on Twitter Monday morning.

Rose said that "a personal medical issue" he has been dealing with this season would require surgery later this week, forcing him to "put this season in the books."

The news led to an outpouring of well wishes on social media from fans, friends and colleagues.

"It’s humbling, and it’s received with much love," Rose told Newsday in an interview.

Rose, 67, said his prognosis is good and that he intends to return to the job in time for next spring training.

While he did not go into detail about his condition, he said he has been dealing with it since March and had hoped to avoid surgery, but that doctors advised him he should "go in and get it done."

"Hopefully it’s one of those things where they do what they have to do and you recover and make whatever adjustments you have to make and move on," Rose said.

He missed a week of work in April because of his condition.

Would he have liked to finish the season?

"You can’t control that," he said. "The protocols we took were not interested in the baseball season. It was just a matter of, OK, we’re at this point now. It would not have been prudent on my part to put it off any longer than this week."

Ed Coleman is expected to be the primary fill-in for Rose alongside Wayne Randazzo, with Lee Mazzilli and Terry Collins also expected to make guest analyst appearances.

Rose said he considered the support he has received a validation of the nature of radio.

"For me the best-case scenario is to create that intimacy where that listener feels that that announcer is talking only to him or her," Rose said. "To see this outpouring is not only overwhelming, but really it’s reaffirming that the medium, which is radio, is still very viable."

By Neil Best

neil.best@newsday.com@sportswatch

Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.