Your 2025 New York Mets: Some things aren’t bouncing our way.
“Some things aren’t bouncing our way. For a period of time we were able to overcome and have a few things bounce our way and we could have our pitching staff keep us in games where we were able to do one or two runs. Right now, they are doing a great job of keeping us in striking distance, but we’re just not having the big hit come through in that situation.” -Brandon Nimmo [New York Post]
For the first time this season, The Vibes are down.
“I messed it up. I just made an awful throw. That whole inning, this game, it’s on me. After that throw, the momentum got out of hand.” -Pete Alonso [MLB]
“We’re not getting the job done with runners in scoring position. At times I feel like we’re taking real good pitches to hit, being passive, and then at times chasing.” -Carlos Mendoza [New York Post]
“I clipped it just about as good as I can get it. And with those circumstances I really did my job there … you feel like you won the at-bat.” -Brandon Nimmo [New York Post]
“This was a long time to go without losing three in a row. Last year it was the first three games, right?” -Brandon Nimmo [New York Post]
While dropping two series, we got to enjoy Juan Soto “hustle/traitor” discourse…
“[Soto removed his helmet and waved it to a ballpark full of fans raining vitriol down upon him.]
“He knew that was coming.” -Carlos Mendoza [MLB]
“I was ready for it.” -Juan Soto [MLB]
“You’ve got to embrace it. At the end of day, whatever they give you, it is what it is. You’ve got to be a professional. You’ve got to take it as a man. I was just enjoying the moment.” -Juan Soto [MLB]
“It’s just another game. It’s really uncomfortable that we didn’t get the win. I don’t focus on the fans. We’ve got to focus on the game, being a professional and trying to win the game.” -Juan Soto [MLB]
Mendoza said he wasn’t going to get into what conversation, if any, he had with Soto. Said Soto cares very much and is frustrated with his play. They’ll “continue to coach him, continue to teach him, continue to support him.”
— Laura Albanese (@AlbaneseLaura) May 20, 2025
…and we’re talking about a guy with a 129 wRC+ through two months like he’s already had a terrible first year…
“In the grand scheme of things, people have tendencies to look at a long-term contract in a one-year span. But it’s a long-term contract. It’s going to play out. He’s going to be one of the greatest Mets to play in this organization. To play 15 years here, he’s going to throw up some crazy numbers.” -Francisco Lindor [MLB]
“I learned how to stay the course and live in the moment and not live so much with the exterior noises and then rely on the people that were here to help me continue to get better.” -Francisco Lindor [MLB]
…in addition to our usual updates of This Week in Tylor Megill/Brett Baty.
“Four walks in an inning, that ain’t gonna cut it. I’m putting myself in bad situations by falling behind. That’s the main thing, just getting ahead of hitters.” -Tylor Megill [New York Times]
“Left on left is super tough. [Baty’s] getting consistent opportunity, and that’s pretty much what I see.” -Mark Vientos [New York Post]
“I’m just trying to come in and be a good player for the New York Mets, and just hit the ball hard, play good defense and try to help the team win,” -Brett Baty [New York Post]
On the positive side, Pete Alonso had the Quote of the Year.
“[Pete Alonso on the possibility of playing the Yankees in October] That’d probably be the best postseason matchup ever because you don’t have to go on the road. … You don’t have to deal with the great wall of traffic going out of JFK. You don’t have to wait on the tarmac. … Any chance we can avoid the Van Wyck, that’d be great.” -Pete Alonso [Twitter]
And easy to forget it was fun when Diaz struck out Judge in one of the two wins this week.
“The biggest key was Edwin’s conviction.” -Francisco Alvarez [New York Times]
Really great interview by Steve Serby with Kodai Senga
“Q: Why do you think the best is yet to come?
A: I think what’s important is I’m constantly striving to be the best. I don’t know if I’ll ever get there, I don’t know if I’ll ever be content with where I am, but I’m always striving to be the best. It’s not like I’m putting up super-dominant numbers, it’s not like I’m striking everybody out and not letting anybody on base. There’s a lot of work to be done, so I’m constantly striving to get there.” -Kodai Senga [New York Post]
“Q: What do you hope or want Mets fans to say about you?
A: It brings me a lot of joy that the fans and the organization as a whole had made the ghost fork a really big thing. It’s an honor to have anything named after you, not very many people have anything like that. If Mets fans made the ghost fork a thing and made it big so if they can remember it and remember me — they don’t have to remember my name — but if they think, “Oh, there was that one cool Japanese pitcher,” that’s exactly who it was for, that’s plenty.” –Kodai Senga [New York Post] Steve Serby