Mets president David Stearns talks team’s struggles, Carlos Mendoza's performance
Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns sat down with the media on Friday in Chicago to address the struggles of the Mets, including the team's complete lack of offensive production and the job performance of manager Carlos Mendoza.
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What's your view of what's going on right now with the team?
Yeah, we, we haven't played good baseball for the last week, for sure.
had a tough time scoring runs.
It's a combination of we're not hitting great, we also ran into some good pitching.
and we need to play better a-and I, and I think we will.
I'm very confident we will.
and it can start today.
What is it that gives you the confidence beyond, you know, obviously being, being confident in the roster you assembled?
Yeah.
Is there anything that you're seeing underlying that, that makes you feel good about where this team still is heading?
Look, I We believe in our players and, and fundamentally, we believe we have good players who are preparing in the best way possible, who are working hard, and in my experience, generally, when you have good players who care about the right things, which our players do, it leads to, it leads to good results, and we haven't seen that.
certainly over the last seven to 10 days, we haven't seen that.
We've still got a long season to go, and I'm confident that we will see it.
How happy are you with the job that Carlos Mendoza has done?
I think Mendy's doing a very good job.
I, I, I think Mendy is putting players in positions to succeed.
and we need to go out and play better.
