PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida, USA (AP) — In his bid to improve after a difficult first campaign with the New York Mets, Francisco Lindor has a plan to rediscover the pace of his game.
“Life was a little quicker for me last year,” said the shortstop on Tuesday during spring training. “I did my best, but I just wasn't as productive as I wanted.”
Traded to New York from Cleveland with Venezuelan pitcher Carlos Carrasco in January 2021, the Puerto Rican star said he wants to welcome his new home and that it will bring him back.
However, the boos rang out at Citi Field after a batting average of 1.182 through April. He scored.204 in May and.160 in August to finish with the lowest percentage of his seven-year career: ,230.
“I didn't feel like I had a drop, I wasn't hitting the ball and obviously the numbers weren't there. It felt like I was having a good day, but I was irregular,” Lindor acknowledged.
Lindor's 10-year, $341 million contract with the Mets kicks off this season. He played last year with a one-year deal and 22.3 million.
In his second year with the Mets, he said he liked the style of new manager Buck Showalter. He claimed it reminded him of “Tito,” referring to Terry Francona of Cleveland.
Showalter gave Francona a simple tip to the Puerto Rican baseball player, who was elected four times in the All-Star Game.
“I'm not the type to say these phrases, like Mark Twain's. You read them once and they become sentences on the wall,” said Showalter. “But if I had to put one, it would be 'better play'.”
Lindor says he's planning on it.
“I think this year — I know it this year — everything I did in the preseason with my training was to make sure I kept my exercise program separate, was with my wife and baby, and recovered,” he warned. “Last year it all mixed up.”
Part of the mission to leave behind last season was to overcome the May 7 altercation with teammate Jeff McNeil in the tunnel leading to the clubhouse at Citi Field.
When the Mets returned to the dugout after the start of the seventh, several players, including Michael Conforto and Dominic Smith, raced to separate them. Lindor was visibly upset by the second baseman's play in a defensive change and the tension could have traced back to a series played two weeks earlier at Wrigley Field.
“McNeil and I have been doing well since then,” Lindor said. “We continue to play as hard as we can. In the end, we are two competitors who want to win and do what it takes to win.”
A two-time winner of the Golden Glove, Lindor does not regret having agreed to wear blue and orange for a decade.
“I felt like I was successful last year,” he said. “We have to get to the playoffs. We were there and over the last month and a half, I haven't been able to help the team enough to make it to the playoffs.”
“I'm still 10 years older.”
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