Shortstop Francisco Lindor returned to Progressive Discipline as a member of the New York Mets on Monday for the primary time for the reason that franchise now generally known as the Cleveland Guardians traded him to the Mets after the 2020 season.
Lindor supplied a humorous and direct reply when requested what he missed most about being with Cleveland.
“Successful,” Lindor mentioned, as shared by Tom Withers of the Related Press. “There’s nothing higher than successful. I do know we didn’t end the last word purpose. We didn’t shut it out, however simply the experiences of successful and pouring champagne on one another and creating recollections that approach with teammates, their households, our complete complete household, entrance workplace.”
Lindor earned 4 All-Star nods with Cleveland from 2015 by means of the 2020 marketing campaign and was a part of the squad that confronted the Chicago Cubs within the 2016 World Sequence. Cleveland held a 3-1 sequence lead earlier than the Cubs rallied again to say the franchise’s first World Sequence title since 1908.
Lindor by no means returned to baseball’s greatest stage with Cleveland and has since performed in simply three postseason video games with the Mets after he signed a 10-year contract extension that might be price as much as $341M forward of the 2021 marketing campaign.
He received his third profession Silver Slugger Award for his play final season, however Mets proprietor Steve Cohen signed off on a summer season hearth sale in July 2023 when the membership was struggling to persistently win video games.
New York fell to 21-26 for the continuing season following Monday’s 3-1 loss in Cleveland.
“I give it some thought rather a lot,” Lindor mentioned concerning the 2016 squad that completed one win shy of attaining its final purpose. “In all probability till I win one or possibly after I nonetheless give it some thought. I believe it’s, that’s simply a part of the journey.”
As for the first-place Guardians, they entered Tuesday’s sport versus New York at 31-17. Whereas issues are going poorly for each Lindor and the Mets forward of Memorial Day, he appears to don’t have any regrets about declining to signal an extension with Cleveland years in the past.
“It was only a matter of us coming to a very good (wage) quantity,” Lindor mentioned concerning the state of affairs. “However it’s a enterprise and I totally perceive their choice, and I’m comfortable they despatched me to New York.”
