Robinson Cano made his long-awaited return to the Mets on Tuesday after a mysterious absence.

“Robinson Cano is here,’’ manager Luis Rojas said during a Zoom call when asked whether the second baseman had any chance of being ready in time for the team’s opener scheduled for July 24 against the Braves in Queens.

The Mets have an organizational policy during spring training 2.0 of not commenting on players’ absences and have noted players are not always required to be at the stadium for every workout. Cano has yet to address the media since the Mets restarted camp in Queens.

Cano later took part in practice at Citi Field, though the team decided not to play him in Tuesday night’s intrasquad game.

Rojas added there’s no precise plan for how they will get the 37-year-old ready for the abbreviated season.

“We’ll go day by day,’’ Rojas said. “He looks great. He came in great shape.”

But Cano has a lot to make up for to be ready to go with less than two weeks remaining before Opening Day. Rojas said Cano will progress based on what he is able to do when he starts working more.

“Obviously, what we see with him [Tuesday] will dictate a lot of that,’’ Rojas said. “He’s gonna go through practice. We’re not thinking of having him play in the intrasquad game right away. He looked in great shape in the clubhouse.”

Rojas wasn’t ready to put a date on when he thought Cano would be ready for a game, but he was missing from camp for over a week and last played in a simulated game on July 6.

“The progression is either to go from a couple of days or a little longer,’’ Rojas said. “Our performance staff has a great eye for that. We’ll have a feel from the feedback we get [Tuesday].”

Teams will open the season with a 30-man roster for the first two weeks before it goes down to 28 for the following two weeks and then 26 for the remainder of the year.

Dom Smith said he saw Cano in the clubhouse Tuesday.

“It was heartening and fun,’’ Smith said. “He’s a big part of our team, a big part of our clubhouse and a big part of what we want to do,’’ Smith said. “He’s helped so many of our young guys with the mental side of the game. To have him is definitely an uplift for us. It’s great to have him here, working hard and ready to get back to work.”

Even before Cano was out, there was the question of how much he’d be able to play second base and if he’d see action at DH.

The Mets have a handful of candidates to serve as DH, including Cano, Smith and Yoenis Cespedes — and the team also wants to use the spot to give other players a rest while keeping their bats in the lineup, meaning Pete Alonso, Michael Conforto and others.

Cano got off to a brutal start in 2019 after coming over from Seattle in a trade with Edwin Diaz that cost the Mets promising prospects Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn.

A similar beginning at the outset of a 60-game schedule would be difficult to overcome.