REPORT: Mets Clubhouse Drama REVEALED?, Lindor & McNeil’s Feud, Soto & Lindor’s Relationship

REPORT: Mets Clubhouse Drama REVEALED?, Lindor & McNeil’s Feud, Soto & Lindor’s Relationship

How we doing everybody? It’s Wardy here and as you guys can see we’re back at it with our second video on the platform today. That being November 28th, 2025 Black Friday edition here on Wyam. Everybody, first was our video a couple hours ago on Frammer Valdez on the Mets potentially landing him on a $200 million contract. Yeah, check out that video. Sure you guys have interest after watching this one because folks, new reports have come out just over the past couple hours at the time of this video dropping. What are these reports? They have everything to do with the Mets so-called clubhouse drama that we saw transpire over the past season. What did this drama entail exactly? Oh, you know, another altercation, another back and forth instance between guys like Jeff McNeel and of course Francis Scolindor begs the question to what degree and how much of an issue is it actually for McNeel who it goes without saying is going to be traded this off season. It doesn’t just stop there with Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeel as it also talks about Lindor’s chilly current relationship with one Juan Sodto and how that may have of course factored into the Mets woes this past season. A lot of breakdown in this one, not only where the reporting stems from, but how much of this is nonsense versus how much of this is actually worthwhile of having the conversation is what we’re going to get into everybody. So, hit that like and subscribe button on your win. Let me know your initial thoughts, reactions, and analysis the comments down below to the following topic today, which is the so-called Mets drama in their clubhouse from the 2025 regular season. Shout out to our amazing sponsor at Segeek that has you covered for all of your ticketing needs. Simply utilize my promo code wardy10. That way you too get 10% off your next ticket purchase. 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I’ve definitely been tapped in on everything that Mike’s been reporting on this offseason. Same thing with guys like Joel Sherman and John Haymon just to name a few. But Puma came out with this piece and stated the following revealed Francisco Endor Chevol battled again and Met shorts stops Chile uh rapport with Juan Sto helped doom the 2025 season. bold words. I will say that much. And let me just start off by saying everybody, I have a lot to say on this and there’s not going to be a whole lot I necessarily have an agreement on. And there’s a lot of this that is again standard when we evaluate clubhouse issues, when we evaluate ups and downs in a season. So nothing that I’m about to relay to you is groundbreaking news. You should not take it as such. If you do, I think the job is being done where they’re getting the clicks that they’re looking for, but you know, you’re also having an overreaction is something that I firmly do not believe is worthy of it. This is again certainly something that I think many fans are going to have interest in wanting to have discourse and talk about, but it suggests that this is something that’s at all groundbreaking that we have ourselves a massive issue. Now, far from it, and you’ll understand the key context as to why that is here in just the next couple seconds. But let me tell a story real quick. Not too long ago, but I can’t give you a firm date for obvious reasons. I was relayed information that I found fascinating in regards to the relationship of Francisco andor and Juan Sodto. Now, you may ask yourself, Wardy, why have you not voiced this publicly? And the reason why I haven’t is because there hasn’t really been a reason to do so. Now, there is. And because of that, it feels worthy to have this conversation. What was relay to me is that a former New York Met, and I do not know who this player was that was a part of the organization over the past season in 2025, who left the organization to then be a part of another organization. I can’t confirm if this was because of a trade or because of the player being cut, whatever the case may be. They weren’t with the Mets for the entire season. and the new team that they ultimately joined the clubhouse in. They did not at all hold back from voicing I not only their displeasure to a degree regarding the organization but specifically on the front of Juan Sto and Francisco’s lack of a relationship. Now what was relayed to me is to kind of take it to a degree with a grain of salt because the Blair was speaking in a spiteful manner as someone who did not feel that he got you know necessarily the best treatment in certain aspects in the organization. Now, I can’t expand on that at all beyond that because one, I’m going to hurt the connection I have that relay the information and two, it’s not my right to do so. I’m not a newsbreaker, but when I know that there’s key contexts I’ve heard throughout the industry that compare with this conversation, I think it’s important to have that. So, I’m not overly shocked to hear that Francisco and Juan Sto don’t necessarily have the best relationship currently. And that is what Mike Puma goes on to state in this piece. But the context is so unbelievably important, I can’t begin to tell you. All this states is that according to a clubhouse source for Mike Puma that they had a quote unquote chile relationship and what exactly is defined as a chilly relationship? This is what it is defined as according to this said source and I quote, “So is very business-like, all business, no fluff. He wants to come to the yard and work his tail off and win games. He’s not in a fashion or any of the other stuff that Lindor finds himself of interest in. It’s just two different personalities. So, mind you, that is the only key quote that we have from this entire piece for the most part in regards to them having a quote unquote chilly relationship. So, once Sodto would just enter the fold in the New York Mets in his first year here on that $765 million contract, you mean to tell me that he isn’t best friends with Francisco and you mean to tell me that they’re not having slumber parties at night? Like actually, who could fathom such a thing? It’s almost like Juan Stoodto is well on his way to be a shorefire Hall of Fame player first ballot. Not because of his connections and relationships with other players in this market, but rather the fact that he has handled himself unbelievably well. And since he came up as a prospect at the age of 19 or so with the Washington Nationals, he has worried about himself far more than anyone else. Now, does that mean that he’s completely disregarded his teammates? No. But the point stands. when you were a superstar elite level of a talent of Janoto that is a level above Francisco Lindor as much as we love Lindor this is apples and oranges Lindor is the better overall player when evaluating defense but when looking at a generational type talent of a bat that is doing things that no guy has done with the exception of Barry Bonds and Mick Manel among a very few others and over the past number of decades it’s telling that you know Juan stood is not wired like anyone else on the Mets roster nor has he probably been wired like any other player that he’s really been a part of since making his major league debut. This kid won the World Series in like his first year and a half in the bigs. And not only did he do that, he turned out a 400 plus million dollar extension in his early 20s from the Washington Nationals to bet on himself and to maximize a return twice as good on a contract within a full valuation of $800 million total if it’s opted in for the final decade of the contract by the Mets. Four more million dollars per year on the 51 mil initial average annual value. So, Juan Sodto again is a guy that carries himself very different from a lot of other players. And Sodto has made it abundantly clear that he is exactly that. He’s going to show up, do his job, and then go home. There’s reasons as to why Juan Sto is not the guy that you see him in the GQ magazine like you would see Lindor or you’re going to see Lindor doing all these other really fun miscellaneous excursions outside of being a baseball player. And there’s nothing wrong with that either. That goes without saying. It’s very normal and okay for again star level players to have an extroverted personality especially in a big market like New York where sponsor deals are literally salivating out the mouth to of course ink with you. There’s a lot of good reason to be the kind of player and personality that Lindor is. But for Sodto, he has the largest contract in North American sports history. It’s okay if he doesn’t have as extrovert of a personality. It’s okay if he doesn’t necessarily want to do all the things that Lindor finds himself loving and doing. And what I just find hilarious about all this is that there is literally nothing to state truthfully that they have a chilly relationship in the context of that hurting the Mets this past season. Because here’s the bottom line. The New York Mets did not make playoffs this past year because of a rotation that was unbelievably injured and was horrendous when they were fairly healthy. That’s the nature of the beast here. Their offense could have hit a liquid runners in scoring position until they got close to the month of August. And who was the Mets’s most clutch hitter from that point on for the remainder of the season? Wasn’t Francisco Lindor, wasn’t Pete Alonzo, it was Juan Sto by a good margin for a good stretch of the season down the stretch. So Juan Sodto understands his role. Lindor understands his role, but the one thing that they do not necessarily see eye to eye on, I mean, not that maybe Lindor feels that he’s undoubtedly the sole leader of this organization. I don’t believe he believes that at all, but the universal belief around the league is that Lindor is the captain of the team. But what have we found out this year? And this is what Puma goes on to highlight in the article, which again I think reaches a moot point, other than the fact that maybe Lindor isn’t as coveted as a leader in the clubhouse, the way that the fans, myself included, view, the way that the players view. Because not only did we see Adam Oino speak on his own live stream over the past week and a half, right before Nemo got traded, funny enough, that Nemo’s a prideful player and he didn’t necessarily enjoy the remarks constantly made about Lindor being the captain of the Mets. Why was that? probably because NMO felt like he also was a voice in the clubhouse, a leader, and someone who’s been here longer than anyone else. Understandably so, to feel the way that he did. Now, Juan Sodto, when speaking in the New York Post and the media throughout the season, he said that in his eyes, undoubtedly, Stley Marte is the real deal. He is the captain of this New York Mets team. Now, common sense tells you if you know a thing or two about Juan Sto and Sterling Marte’s relationship, this should not surprise you. Yet for those who have not done their good share of background of understanding how the startup of this relationship happened, they will come out and look at this as groundbreaking news like, “Oh my god, Lindor has no respect.” Far from it. Strawy Marte took Wanoto under his wing as soon as he came in the major leagues. They built a very good rapporting relationship right away. And obviously this goes in hand with the fact that both of them are Dominican type players. So naturally, you’re going to have a little bit of a immediate connection there because you don’t necessarily have any laps in communication when it comes to, you know, say when Sodto was first entering the leagues and maybe didn’t have as much strength in his English as he does now. Even though I will say in STO’s case, I’ve never really known him as someone that has had issues with saying the English language. The way that Alvarez has went from a player that didn’t really know a lick to now being able to comfortably handle media sessions at times and talk to fans, which is all great stuff. But the point I’m trying to make is that Marte is his uncle essentially like his unofficial uncle. He’s took him under his wing since he first entered the league there for the Washington Nationals. They’ve had a very good relationship for a number of years now. And this goes well beyond stood ever having a deep relationship with Francisco Endor. So no one should be surprised that these remarks are made in the fashion of, oh, who do I think is a captain of this team? It’s the oldest veteran here in our offense and the guy who I’ve looked up to since I entered the league. a man who I have a great relationship with and star-studded strongly Marte perfectly fine to have that kind of opinion and it’s also perfectly fine that Francisco Lindor Juan stood aren’t like I don’t know how else to say it I’m going to say jokingly butt buddies like why do they need to be bffs in order to have success it just doesn’t make sense to me was Juan stood best friends with everyone on that Washington Nationals roster when he won the World Series with them a year and a half into his major league debut no he was just getting his career started and he filled the shoes of Bryce Harper unbelievably unbelievably well. The first year Harper lands in Philadelphia and he states in his opening presser, “I can’t wait to bring a championship back to DC,” which he slipped and did not mean to say. Fitting that he technically did do that cuz Juan Sto brought a championship that same year in 2019. But the point stands had an abundance amount of personal individual success in his career and it’s been because of he himself more than anything else. That’s how he’s carried himself and that’s why we have heard some confliction of reporting during his time in San Diego when looking at the various personalities and egos because Sodto is not wired the way that Manny Machado is. Nor is he wired at all like Fernando Tatis Jr. is. You could argue that Nando is far more immature from what we’ve seen in the public eye at this point. You could also see that Manny has also been someone that’s been far far more hotheaded than Sodto who is relatively speaking that everything we’ve seen this point has stayed pretty even killed as a player throughout his entire career. Sodto is not one that finds himself in drama much and if he does it’s because of nonsense like this for the sake of having the conversation just to have the conversation. Now here are the facts. Juan Sodo and Francisco Lindor don’t have a tumultuous relationship nor were they the key factors to the Mets lack of success this past year. You want to know why? Lindor and Sodto were two of the most important players in this Mets lab this year with the exception of Petonzo too. Why at all would you think that oh they are the glaring problem here? But this is the problem that we have in society today where again when we and I understand Mike’s thought process here is that he gets relayed information he wants to of course talk about it right away. I don’t have an well with that. What I personally have a gripe of with as someone who is trying to balance being a fan while also being a talking head you know a commentator in the space that is having the interconnections that work for the New York Post sports as well. This is where I kind of find myself at a crossroads because I understand both sides of the coin. I understand the media point of view trying to get this piece out and trying to amplify that oh we were relayed information that’s important to know and from the fan point of view saying that this is kind of a nothing burger and we’re really just having the conversation when it isn’t necessarily warranted but if there’s any way to really get more benefit of the doubt to Puma here it is with the following cuz this conversation was not solely about Juan stood and Francisco Londor it was also about Francisco and Jeff McNeel and that is the bigger highlight I would like to make in today’s video The Sodto stuff is just a nothing burger. All I care about is that Lindor and Sodto don’t constantly butt heads when it comes to overall team decision-making that players have the heavy hand in. If that becomes apparent over the next year or two, then we’ll have that discussion. But that isn’t the case now. So, I don’t really have anything to worry about, nor should you. Regarding McNeel, it’s a different discussion. You know, Francisco Endor when he choked out Chef McNeel in the tunnel in 2021 at during a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I remember it like it was yesterday. Uh, fast forward four years later or so, it didn’t get that bad, but an altercation happened again. And what happened on June 20th of this year, the New York Mets were getting curb stomped in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. And in that game, Chev McNeel misplayed a ball that supposedly made Francisco and Door really pissed off. After that happened, they had themselves a heated exchange and a standoff basically with one another. Now, there’s nothing that’s reported really beyond that. It’s just the fact that they again had a very heated exchange because of it. Um, and let’s see here. A play didn’t get made and that pistol door off a source who was nearby. The confrontation said there’s no indication the latest known incident between the two turned physical like what we saw back in 2021. Um, and then we saw, you know, Lindor started to angrily verbally verbally attack McNeel and this led to a tense standoff between the two players. And this was in the heart of the Mets having lost their seventh straight game that night. And this was only 10 days removed from the start of the end of the Mets season because remember June 20th is 10 days removed from June 10th. Around June 10th, June 13th area is when Kodi Singo went down with his injury. Then we saw Tyler McIll go down. Then we saw Griffin Kenny go down. If you guys remember the timeline, that was the beginning of the end of the Mets year. From that point on, from right around midJune on, the Mets were 13 to 15 games below 500 for the remainder of the season. So it sucks. And they also were horrendous on the road this year. Around 13 games below 500. Loor famously did not step up on the road at all this year. He was downright horrendous. He batted around the Mendoza line with a just over 600 OPS and north of 30% below league average as an average batter on at home. He was north of 30% above league average. He was awesome with north of a,000 ops. Bang around to 300. Lot to love. But as soon as he does that my girl or his family in the stands, it appears he wasn’t able to lock in the same. I don’t say that all rudely to Lindor because I love him and I don’t blame him for being heavily, you know, influenced when he’s at home with a roaring Cityfield crowd that came out in a record numbers this year, but you need to show up on the road when the team needs you as well. And Lindor was not able to do that. So, there’s something to be said about Francisco Endor’s name finding himself more in negative light lately as a leader than a positive one. But you also also have to understand a lot of times there are narratives that are pushed at times, but I’m not saying that that’s solely what Puma is trying to do here. So, please don’t misquote me for saying that. But there’s something to be said about the media specifically, whoever they might be, having a narrative to push for the sake of again trying to draw a longer conversation as something that didn’t need to be discussed to begin with. And I feel that to a degree we find ourselves falling in that category with this. But what is notable is the Jeb McNeel interaction because Francisco Lindor isn’t going anywhere. And even if Lindor has an attitude issue to a degree that maybe we’re unaware of, he has an attitude issue because he expects excellence constantly. And Lindor has an expectation as a player that trumps what we have seen Jeff McNeel have an expectation of a player as. And this is not to slight McNeel, but they aren’t wired the same. And where I admire Lindor most as a leader, as someone who really cares himself well, is that he shows up to the best of his ability every single day, even when things don’t go right. The one thing that I appreciate about Lindor is that for the most part and what has not been an easy thing for him as the unsung captain you could argue for this team depending on who you talk to just not stood obviously is that no matter win lose or draw no matter his hot streaks or cold streaks he does his best to stay even killed to be playful and to be his best individual self until really the past calendar year or so Chevrod mightily in that regard to carry himself at all well when he wouldn’t perform well. a very emotional talent that you would see feed off of those emotions when he would be in a rut. He wouldn’t know how to hide those emotions. And there’s something to be said about the professionalism that Lindor brings both on and off the field in that regard. And someone who is again one of the leaders of this clubhouse, there’s a reason why Jeff McNeel is likely man to be traded this off seasonason where Lindor ain’t go ain’t going anywhere anytime soon. So, for those who have been constantly doubting the belief that McNeil could be dealt this off seasonason, let this just be another example added to the various examples as to why Jeff being dealt this off seasonason is as close to a lock as it’s ever been at this point in his career. He’s entering his age 34 season. He has two years left on his contract at over $30 million total, but it’s really a one-year contract because there’s a 2027 15.5 mil club option, which no guarantee whatever team would have him at the time would opt him in as he’d be then entering his age 35 season. He is a versatile talent that stole his value. Had two wars season this past year, 11% above league as a batter. There are appealing aspects to Jeff McNeel for teams, but for the Mets here, he just acquired a star second baseman defensively that we saw in Marcus Simeon. You also have an abundance of riches of infield talent right now, both good and bad. When looking at defense of Mark Vento, Brett Batty, Ronny Re, Lu Helunia, top prospect Jet Williams. You have too many options right now to say that, oh, Jeff McNeel has an opportunity to succeed with the team right now. It goes without saying, but for McNeel and for the Mets, this ship should sail. The Mets need more of a culture ship shift in this clubhouse and I think parting ways with Jeff will most certainly be a part of in their eyes hopefully a remedy for better as we move into 2026. What are the type of clubhouse uh people the Mets bring in outside Simeon has yet to be seen but Marcus Simeon was one of the few official captains in baseball there for the Texas Rangers that helped lead them to a World Series championship two years ago. So Simeon even with having the bat fall off the past couple years and last year had a lot to do with him playing through injury. You can still say that the culture that he’s likely to bring is nothing going to be nothing short of a positive one and holding people accountable constantly. Not that McNeel is a night and day difference, but there’s a reason why we have talked about Jeff McNeel’s supposed character issues or flaws over the years. Now, for me, the reason why I think that again, this is still more of a nothing burger is what? You’re shocked that Jeff McNeel and Francisco don’t have a great relationship. You’re shocked that they’re not calling each other late at night to remind themselves, you know, you hang up for first. No, you hang up first. Like, what are we doing here? They never had a tight relationship, nor are they probably ever going to. And that’s okay. The same way that’s okay for players to argue and have interactions and have altercations. Every single effing team in baseball has this happen every single season. That is a lone thing that bothered me about this piece coming out because again, why are we talking about something that’s common sense, something that happens to literally every single team as if it’s something that is this groundbreaking thing? It’s far from it. As a matter of fact, I can tell you in confidence as someone who knows a lot of people in the industry, not just for the Mets, but various organizations that a lot of happens and a lot of stuff happens that stays in-house my French too that you never even hear of. But that’s okay because it doesn’t need to all be aired out. You know, unless you have Adamino ready to spill the tea for you yet again in a multi-ourong live stream on his YouTube channel, you’re not going to have a lot of guys going out of their way to air this stuff out because there’s usually a rightful reason not to do so. Um, I think there’s something to be said about clubhouse culture, but keeping things in house. And even if I find myself more on the scene in the future in the space where I may have more of the luxury to actually be more on the reporting side than someone who’s just a talking head, even in those scenarios, the last thing that I’m going to be focused on doing is trying to, you know, stir something in a direction very far off from reality. So, that is where I have the balance. I understand the media point of view with this. I understand wanting to drive clicks and wanting to amplify fairly new news at least to them that they’ve been relayed that they know people have a lot of discourse on. I completely understand that the same way that I’m making a video on it because I know a lot of you guys are going to have reactions in discourse to it in the comments down below. All these things can be true at the same time while also saying from a fan perspective. Yeah, you know what? Every team does this stuff. We know McNeel don’t love each other as is. Who really cares? We know Jeff’s likely going to be traded and part of the reason is why is because of not his play but because of wanting a culture shift and different dynamic in this clubhouse hopefully for the better. Same thing with Juan Sodto and Francisco in the sense that really our one our lone line that we have is that Juan Sodto doesn’t like to, you know, get all dalled up the way that Lindor does each single day. That maybe he doesn’t want to wear Gucci today, even though Sodto quietly wears really expensive clothes because he’s the most wealthy player on the Mets right now. Think about it. Stood’s on a contract over double Francisco and door. So, if there’s anything to be said about maybe them not having the tightest relationship, there could be to a degree maybe pride on Lindor’s end that maybe doesn’t view that Sodto is that much better of a player than him. Again, I don’t want to spitball when I genuinely don’t know. So, I’ll shut up on that front. But the point I’m trying to say is even if that were to be the case, it’s kind of valid. You know, like Lindor is a very good player and even though he is in sodto status, he is a guy that’s been in these MVP conversations over the past couple years for the Mets. So, you know, when you see a guy get such a groundbreaking contract and out of your team and he’s going to now be the face of the team, whether you liked it or not, naturally, I can understand if there’s an adjustment period. And from everything that have been relayed, and this is something I’ve been waiting to say for the end of the show here, is that from how the relationship started to begin this season with Juan Sodo, Francisco Andor to how it ended was only something that gradually got better from everything that I’ve been told. So again, even if it’s a chilly relationship, who gives a rats, you know what? They don’t need to be BFFs. They just need to be professionals to help this team win a championship, not be toxic in the clubhouse, understand each other, hold each other accountable, and have the emphasis on expect on expecting nothing short of perfectness, if that’s even the word. If not, I apologize. Needing the best out of these guys each day and accepting nothing short of failure. That’s all this comes down to. and all we want to see is this team win. And the more this team wins, the more we’re not going to care about stuff like this. So, Mets fans, thank you again for watching. Let me know all your thoughts in the comments down below on this topic today. I definitely want to hear from you guys. And regardless of the fact that this video is dropping just short of midnight here on the East Coast, I thank you all so much for taking the time to watch as it first drops within the first 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, whatever the case may be. Know that I appreciate you. I’ll see you all back here for more Mets content on the platform. Until then, have a great rest of your night, day, evening, whenever you’re watching this. And as always, no matter what, let’s go Mets. Peace out, everybody. Have a great one.

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