{"id":124484,"date":"2025-12-02T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=124484"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:55:58","slug":"met-clubhouse-alert-it-has-been-revealed-that-the-new-york-mets-may-have-experienced-some-clubhouse-issues-during-the-2025-season-internal-sources-indicate-that-tension-and-disagreements-affected-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=124484","title":{"rendered":"MET CLUBHOUSE ALERT: It has been revealed that the New York Mets may have experienced some clubhouse issues during the 2025 season. Internal sources indicate that tension and disagreements affected the team\u2019s morale. Today, a key reminder about what makes a good team great and a bad team weak has been shared. And now, the big question: what will the Mets learn from this season to come back stronger..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<h5><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Francisco Lindor<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff McNeil<\/strong> were once again at odds during the 2025 season, and Lindor apparently lost his grip on the clubhouse as well (NY Post)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kodai Senga<\/strong> would like to stay with the Mets and not be traded (Athletic)<\/li>\n<li>The Mets, Phillies, Reds, and Red Sox are among those \u201cin the mix\u201d for <strong>Kyle Schwarber\u2019s<\/strong> free agency (ESPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Marlins expect RHP <strong>Sandy Alcantara <\/strong>to be with them on Opening Day, and they\u2019ve expressed interest in signing RHP <strong>Pete Fairbanks<\/strong> (Fish On First)<\/li>\n<li>The Yankees are prioritizing bringing back <strong>Cody Bellinger<\/strong> over signing <strong>Kyle Tucker <\/strong>(NY Post)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyle Tucker <\/strong>is expected to get a contract in excess of ten years and $300 million, but his market could take a lot of time to evolve (ESPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 23 games so far this winter, <strong>Luisangel Acu\u00f1a <\/strong>is hitting .276\/.427\/.553 with five doubles, two triples, four home runs and 16 RBI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.justmets.net\/subscribe?utm_source=subscribe-widget&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=0&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Upgrade to a paid subscription!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\">Upgrade to a paid subscription!<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!_S3r!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89868a5f-6b3a-4c4e-a31c-2b4f2a19db2a_2156x1437.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Normally, I try not to dig too deep into the drama and gossip of a major league clubhouse. I am a firm believer that what happens in the office should stay in the office, and that room is a private space for rostered players on any given team.<\/p>\n<p>But there comes a time over the course of a bad year for the Mets that this becomes a talking point whether it\u2019s true, false or otherwise. And on this occasion, I will stand by my customary response but also offer some reminders and general perspective on workplace culture.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Mets, there\u2019s a report in Friday\u2019s New York Post about the Mets clubhouse once again being a problem, which in turn makes everyone think that because there might have been or was in fact a problem in the room, that was the reason the Mets ended up flopping in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>First off, in sports, I do believe that chemistry matters, especially in team sports and especially in team sports when all 26 players can factor into the daily outcome either positively or negatively. That\u2019s how baseball is. It\u2019s important for players to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates, it\u2019s important for players to gel, and it\u2019s important for there to be symbiotic baseball relationships as that generally creates team-wide success.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all of that, we are talking strictly about baseball relations. The clubhouse is not a wedding, it is not a bar mitzvah, it is not a New Year\u2019s Eve party-scape. It is a workplace for professional players to act professionally. It is not necessary for players to pal around in that room in order to be successful. They can if they choose, of course. But it is not necessary for all of the players to like each other, be friends with each other, go to everyone\u2019s wedding or kid birthday parties, or even get along on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>These people spend <em>a lot<\/em> of time with each other over the course of a seven or eight-month season which includes spring training, a 180-day season and hopefully the playoffs, which the Mets miss more often than not.<\/p>\n<p>Now, do the Mets miss the playoffs because of bad clubhouses?<\/p>\n<p>No, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>They miss the playoffs a lot because they don\u2019t have a lot of good players more often than not.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets didn\u2019t miss the playoffs in 2025 because <strong>Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto,<\/strong> and\/or <strong>Jeff McNeil<\/strong> did or didn\u2019t get along, or had a disagreement, or were or weren\u2019t friends when they left the ballpark. They didn\u2019t miss the playoffs because Lindor might have been annoyed at a poor throw from McNeil, or a booted ball by McNeil, or because Lindor might not have been happy at the result of a play not made somewhere along the line through hundreds of plays over the course of a 162-game season.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nope. Rather, the Mets didn\u2019t make the playoffs because their pitching was flat out awful after June 12. There were too many plays not made, too many errors, too much lackadaisical play on the field, including but not limited to Lindor\u2019s mistakes, which at times cost them an out, cost them at least one run, and cost them a game. On more than one, two, three, ten, or twenty occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Lindor knows as well as anyone that it\u2019s a long season. Things happen on the field, and things happen off the field. And I have news for everyone who is soaking up this narrative: things like that happened with the Dodgers too, and they won the World Series, albeit by the skin of their teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Think about your own work situation for a second. How many people have annoyed you? How many people have done something which you didn\u2019t think was right, didn\u2019t think was professional, and thought was a barrier? Right or wrong, we all have been in that boat. It\u2019s just part of being in a workplace with the same people every single day, week after week, month after month, and year after year. It doesn\u2019t mean you and the people around you can\u2019t be successful as long as you are good at what you do, are prepared and engaged, and want to cultivate a successful workplace.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t at all mean that chemistry isn\u2019t relevant. It is. It very much is. I think part of why the Mets wanted to inject <strong>Marcus Semien<\/strong> into the fabric of the team &#8211; aside from the upgrade he brings to the right side of the field defensively &#8211; is because he is known as a strong but positive clubhouse presence, and it\u2019s clear this team might\u2019ve drifted from their purpose this past season. But that chemistry is not usually created or destroyed because players have a workplace disagreement. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to attribute individual issues in the room to the entirety of poor play on the field all the time. We don\u2019t truly know what goes on behind closed doors with a professional sports team. We probably know up to five percent, and even that might be a generous estimate.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t mean the report is wrong, either. But the issues that may or may not have existed in the clubhouse also don\u2019t entirely explain why the Mets went bad in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, good teams boil down to having good players; bad teams boil down to having bad players. And the 2025 Mets had too many bad players at premium positions, which is why they fell apart. Whether or not Lindor, McNeil, Soto, <strong>Pete Alonso<\/strong>, Carlos Mendoza, or anyone on the coaching staff liked each other or got along personally are distant and secondary situations.<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8211; minus Soto, these are mostly the same people that got to within two wins of the World Series just 13 months ago. And that clubhouse was supposedly great, wasn\u2019t it? Yeah, it was missing <strong>JD Mart\u00ednez, Harrison Bader, <\/strong>and <strong>Jos\u00e9 Iglesias,<\/strong> but again, their absences in 2025 did not make the Mets one of the worst teams in baseball over the season\u2019s final 90 games. But their subtractions coupled with the front office\u2019s clear inability to replace them properly might have something to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny &#8211; when teams are good, the clubhouse always seems to be good. When teams are bad, the clubhouse is usually bad.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s all true, but it starts with the talent, coaching, and athletic preparation. It always has and always will. And quite frankly, all of that being absent is what led to the Mets going bad.<\/p>\n<p>If people want the Mets to be better, they need better players. Those players don\u2019t need to be friends, go to each other\u2019s weddings, or go to their kids\u2019 birthday parties. They need to be good players who connect athletically.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8211; people love the drama. It\u2019s why everyone with the team gets asked about the clubhouse and locker room all the time. It draws eyes and ears.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all a distraction, and none of that is baseball.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Orioles signed RHP <strong>Ryan Helsley <\/strong>to a two-year, $28 million contract with an opt-out after 2026 (ESPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets reportedly had some clubhouse rifts over the course of the 2025 season. 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