{"id":434679,"date":"2025-12-09T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:17:12","slug":"carlos-mendoza-doesnt-believe-mets-had-locker-room-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434679\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Mendoza doesn&#8217;t believe Mets had locker room problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Carlos Mendoza pushed back Monday against the notion a fractured Mets clubhouse was part of the team\u2019s undoing last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a professional clubhouse,\u201d the Mets manager said at the Winter Meetings. \u201cGuys respected each other. Guys enjoyed being around each other. We just didn\u2019t play well in the field, and that translated into whatever people call vibe, team chemistry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Post recently reported that Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/28\/sports\/revealed-second-lindor-mcneil-battle-soto-relationship-underscore-mets-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had a heated confrontation in June<\/a> over a play that wasn\u2019t made.<\/p>\n<p>A source also described the relationship between Lindor and Juan Soto as chilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into what happens in the clubhouse; obviously, it stays there,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cThe past few weeks, it feels like we were fighting pretty much every day. Nobody talked about our clubhouse when we got to the second week of June with the best record in baseball. We have the best clubhouse. And then we start losing and everybody is talking about, oh, some of the issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37878056\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/new-york-mets-manager-carlos-117008375.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Mendoza speaks to the media at the winter meetings on Dec. 8, 2025. \" class=\"wp-image-37878056\"  \/>Carlos Mendoza speaks to the media at the winter meetings on Dec. 8, 2025.  IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza\u2019s bullpen management recently was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/20\/sports\/adam-ottavino-goes-off-on-carlos-mendzoas-mets-bullpen-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized by former Mets reliever Adam Ottavino<\/a>, who suggested the team didn\u2019t do enough to keep arms healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Mendoza on Monday said precautions were taken.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were probably one of the teams that protected the bullpen guys better than anybody,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cYou are talking about we were able to do that with so little length that we were getting from the starters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this is a Mets issue. I think this is an industry that this year, we were dealing with a lot of injuries. But I\u2019m comfortable with the process too. When you are talking about guys, who\u2019s available, there\u2019s so many people, so many conversations that happen throughout the day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kai Correa\u2019s addition as bench coach has Mendoza optimistic the team will show improvement defensively, through game planning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a guy known around the industry as one of the best defensive coaches in the league,\u201d Mendoza said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Correa previously served as a bench coach with the Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Carlos Mendoza pushed back Monday against the notion a fractured Mets clubhouse was part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[27639,3690,3693,1266,1305,3687,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-434679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-carlos-mendoza","9":"tag-jeff-mcneil","10":"tag-juan-soto","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-pete-alonso","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115687447068275493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434679","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=434679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}