{"id":67843,"date":"2025-06-07T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=67843"},"modified":"2025-06-07T07:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T07:52:30","slug":"this-week-in-mets-quotes-mendoza-feels-like-mets-gave-the-dodgers-game-away-gary-cohen-is-a-consummate-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=67843","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Mets Quotes: Mendoza feels like Mets gave the Dodgers game away, Gary Cohen is a consummate professional"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"What's<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your 2025 <\/strong>New York Mets: We\u2019ll get hot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll get hot, and it\u2019s gonna be exciting when that happens.\u201d -Pete Alonso [MLB]<\/p>\n

If you said the Mets would split a 4 game series with the <\/strong>Dodgers at LA with a +4 Run Differential, obviously I\u2019d sign up, still the way it happens changes how you feel…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe ended up splitting the series, but it felt like we gave that one away. We were sloppy today. We didn\u2019t play well.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [New York Times]<\/p>\n

…but a reminder the Mets went 5-2 for the week with a +14 Run Differential and the lineup continues to tease what it would look like with everyone on hitting on full cylinders. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJust signs of good things to come.\u201d -Brandon Nimmo [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s three really good hitters at the top [of our lineup], and it\u2019s fun to see them going deep in the same game. We envisioned that. When you\u2019ve got those three at the top, it\u2019s pretty special.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s gonna be a time when they\u2019re all clicking and it\u2019s going to be crazy to watch Especially as pitchers, if we just keep giving them a chance, they\u2019re going to carry things for a little bit. So it was nice to see them all come together in one game and do that.\u201d -Clay Holmes [MLB]<\/p>\n

Nice to know that Juan Soto started a OF ritual to meet up at the top of the dugout after every defensive inning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a Juan thing.\u201d Tyrone Taylor [New York Times]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was something he brought in. I thought it was great. Every team has their own things that they bring in and try to do, and Juan made it a point right away that, that was something he wanted to do. It just brings that teamwork, that team chemistry of trying to get everyone to pull on the same end of the rope. It\u2019s another tool for doing that.\u201d -Brandon Nimmo [New York Times]<\/p>\n

Stupid sexy Schwarber.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Kyle Schwarber used to tell Soto all the time] \u201cAs outfielders, we all are back there and we should all have each other\u2019s backs.\u201d -Juan Soto [New York Times]<\/p>\n

\u201cI know we are a whole team but as outfielders, we have a lot of responsibilities back there, so if we can stick together more and more, even when guys do make an error or something, just pick them up, have a talk before going in to hit. It\u2019s huge for me. After Schwarber taught me that, I started doing it, and I feel like a lot of my teammates appreciate it.\u201d -Juan Soto [New York Times]<\/p>\n

This Week in looking on the bright side of a player with \u2018only\u2019 a 126 wRC+.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is only going to continue to climb. Everybody from the outside keeps saying, \u2018Where\u2019s Soto? Where\u2019s Soto?\u2019 We have seen it. He has had good at-bats weekly. I think today, the ball fell for him.\u201d -Francisco Lindor [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, I sit here and look at the numbers, [Soto\u2019s] going to get going here pretty soon. He\u2019s just gotta stay the course. If he keeps doing that, the numbers are going to be there at the end of the year.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [Fox Sports]<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it speaks to, one, [Soto] has had a lot of players on base ahead of him, and he\u2019s hit a lot of ground balls. And if you add that misfortune of hitting them right at other people, it\u2019s going to be a double play. So we\u2019re a third of the way through the season. He has 10 double plays. I would hammer the under on 30 double plays over the course of the season.\u201d -David Stearns [Fox Sports]<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it was harder to stop struggling mentally [during the 2021 season]. It was definitely a different challenge in my life. I ended up with a mental coach. I relied a lot more on my family. And that helped me a lot.\u201d -Francisco Lindor [Fox Sports]<\/p>\n

Full interview by Steve Serby and Luis Torrens is worth the read.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter you were hit in the groin by a foul tip on May 11, what did your wife tell you?\u201d –<\/strong>Steve Serby [New York Post]<\/p>\n

\u201c(Laugh) First thing she told me was, \u201cWe already have two kids.\u201d We\u2019re safe in that part. That one was not the first one, so we\u2019re used to when that happens.\u201d -Luis Torrens [New York Post]<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said you were going to change your protective cup.\u201d –<\/strong>Steve Serby [New York Post]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a cup that the MMA guys use. It\u2019s way better. This one has more of a mold and it kind of like forms for me personally to hold everything in.\u201d -Luis Torrens [New York Post]<\/p>\n

As I have been saying my whole life; NY > LA.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou see it with a lot of guys, just a change of scenery. I was in Southern California my whole life. It\u2019s nice to get out and experience something new.\u201d -Griffin Canning [New York Times]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had [KinaTrax], but I never saw it. I think the Angels have all the similar things. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a bad thing \u2014 sometimes they don\u2019t want guys to go down that rabbit hole, and worry about those kinds of things.\u201d -Griffin Canning [New York Times]<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch different. Obviously, [Canning\u2019s] healthy. The stuff is playing up. The velocity is up. There\u2019s a cutter, the slider is good, there\u2019s a changeup. He\u2019s a much better pitcher, more weapons than he\u2019s had in the past.\u201d -Dave Roberts [New York Times]<\/p>\n

If you needed more reason to root for Chris Suero.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBorn and raised. I take [the idea of being a \u2018project baby\u2019 from the Bronx] with pride. I\u2019m putting the city on my back for sure.\u201d -Chris Suero [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took quite some time [to make the decision to move to the Dominican Republic] being that I was going to leave my mom, I was going to leave my whole family, and I was still 15 years old. I was still a little kid. I hadn\u2019t really been exposed to anything like that, being away from home. So it was a tough decision for me and my family, but at the end of the day, we just wanted to do what was best for me and my career.\u201d -Chris Suero [MLB]<\/p>\n

If you needed more reason to root for Paul Blackburn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople I went to said they\u2019d never seen this in a baseball player and they didn\u2019t know how I\u2019d come back from it. I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d be able to pitch again. That [thought] was there. That was real. So when I went through the rehab process, I tried to be as positive as I could and focus on the day.\u201d -Paul Blackburn [New York Post]<\/p>\n

If you needed more reason to root for Ronny Mauricio.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ronny Mauricio has been working on his English, taking classes two times per week. It’s much improved.<\/p>\n

He discusses his return to the Majors (in both English and Spanish with interpreter Alan Suriel): pic.twitter.com\/xn8PaDzbmh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a whole, I feel like we\u2019ve pitched [Ohtani] really well.\u201d -Paul Blackburn [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to give in. [Ohtani] put a good swing on a fastball earlier in the game. He\u2019s a great fastball hitter, so I was leaning on my slider to get there and then just kind of showed him something different with the changeup 3-2.\u201d -Griffin Canning [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a secret sauce. There\u2019s a secret sauce to every hitter.\u201d -Tylor Megill [MLB]<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery team is going to have a plan, right? But it comes down to the players going out there and executing, and I feel like we\u2019ve done that. [Ohtani\u2019s] still a great hitter. It\u2019s not comfortable watching him over there at the plate. But so far, knock on wood, I feel like we\u2019ve done a good job.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [MLB]<\/p>\n

Gary Cohen: Consummate Professional<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gary Cohen: “By BlueChew. Chew it and do it.”<\/p>\n

Keith Hernandez: “What did you mean by that?”<\/p>\n

Gary Cohen: “I just read the copy here. I try to give it a good read. Try and give the advertiser everything that they paid for, Keith. And then it’s somebody else’s problem.” #MLB pic.twitter.com\/yWaarcYBQP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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