{"id":411683,"date":"2025-11-29T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:16:15","slug":"exclusive-revealed-second-lindor-mcneil-battle-soto-relationship-underscore-mets-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411683\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Revealed: second Lindor-McNeil battle, Soto relationship underscore Mets issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil had a heated confrontation last season, just the latest friction between the teammates in what has been a turbulent Mets relationship.<\/p>\n<p>After a defensive lapse on June 20 in Philadelphia, an angry Lindor at some point began verbally attacking McNeil, according to a source, leading to what was described as a tense standoff between the two. The Mets lost their seventh straight that night \u2014 an initial stretch of futility that indicated maybe something was amiss with a team that had surged a season-high 21 games above .500 just over a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA play didn\u2019t get made and that pissed [Lindor] off,\u201d a source who was nearby the confrontation said.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication this latest known incident between the two turned physical. That is unlike in 2021, when an argument between the two sparked by a defensive letdown spilled over into the runway between the dugout and clubhouse. The Post later reported that Lindor grabbed McNeil by the throat and pinned him against a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil had a heated confrontation last season, just the latest friction between the teammates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6335,3689,3690,3693,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-411683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-francisco-lindor","11":"tag-jeff-mcneil","12":"tag-juan-soto","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-mets","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-sports-plus","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115630111873516223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}