Count members of the Mets clubhouse as followers of the AppleTV present “Ted Lasso.”
The Mets didn’t win the NL East this season, ending second behind the Atlanta Braves and clinching the primary NL wild card spot as a substitute. But you received’t discover anybody dwelling on the losses within the Mets’ clubhouse. They’re making an attempt to look forward and overlook in regards to the weekend sweep by the hands of the defending World Series champs as they host the Washington Nationals within the remaining three video games of the common season.
Or as famed fictional soccer coach Ted Lasso would say, they’re making an attempt to be goldfish.
“I’ve said it before this year, but you have to be like a goldfish, and you have to just forget the day before and move on,” Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo mentioned Tuesday afternoon earlier than the primary sport of a doubleheader at Citi Field. “You can undoubtedly be dragged down a path of like, ‘Oh, you guys failed, you didn’t win the division and also you let it slip out of your palms.’ Sure, you may say all these issues.
“But you can also say all these positive things about how we have a chance to be a 100-win team, how we are in the playoffs after a six-year drought and we’ve done a lot of really good things individually, too.”
The 100-win mark is a specific level of emphasis for this group. It’s a significant benchmark in baseball to start with, however for this explicit franchise, it marks a brand new begin of kinds. The Mets have solely had three seasons of 100 or extra wins in membership historical past with the newest coming in 1988.
There is not any sense of failure among the many group. They’ve been conserving it gentle and free since getting back from Atlanta. The clubhouse was largely consumed with a heated sport of pool earlier than the sport Tuesday and the environment was upbeat. The aim is simply to maneuver on and put themselves able to succeed through the postseason.
The inspiration they’re drawing from? The 2021 Braves.
“We still know it’s a long shot to win the division,” Nimmo mentioned. “But we’re in the playoffs and we have the chance to be a 100-win team. So there are a lot of good things that are still on the radar for us. We know that just getting into the playoffs gives you a chance. I mean, the Braves were a team that got hot last year.”
JAKE WILL WAIT
With the NL East race now over, the Mets is not going to use Jacob deGrom to pitch the common season finale on Wednesday. Manager Buck Showalter didn’t title a pitcher for Wednesday.
MINOR LEAGUE AWARDS
The membership introduced their minor league participant of the yr awards Tuesday, naming third baseman Brett Baty the participant of the yr and right-hander Dominic Hamel the pitcher of the yr. Infielder Jesus Baez and outfielder Dyron Campos have been named the Mets’ DSL advanced gamers of the Year whereas right-hander Wilson Esterlin obtained the pitcher of the yr award in the identical class.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com