Pedro Martinez sounds like he knows more about the NY Mets than he’s saying

Pedro Martinez has been a critique of the New York Mets this year, just not in the way we’re used to in 2026. He isn’t obnoxious about it. When Martinez spoke about the Mets in early April, there was something heartfelt about his plea to the team.

Martinez’s point wasn’t much different back then than it was after beating the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 to end June. Firing up several Mets tweets, Martinez had a lot to say about team chemistry and how to play the game.

Those were his four messages and each one managed to say a little more about what he believes. Selfless baseball is what Martinez desires. When he sees the Mets, he sees individuals and not a team.

It’s not an uncommon complaint about this year’s squad. An easy observation to make, Martinez’s final tweet about the team turning it around is where I get lost. Is this a reference to 2026 alone or the franchise as a whole? Which pieces do they need added anyway?

The Mets seemed to do everything Pedro Martinez wanted them to do this offseason and it still didn’t work

Salvaging the 2026 season with new additions is an act of chasing after your own tail. What kinds of changes could the Mets potentially make at this point, while subtracting what hasn’t worked, to make things work? We’ll have to assume Martinez means turning the whole system around.

When he spoke in April, Martinez believed the coaching turnover was a big part of why the team was flailing. They’ve already changed the manager. The other coaches will get the year as nearly all are in season number one.

Without offering specific names, Martinez leaves out the most important part of the questions we need to ask, “Who?”

By all accounts, the Mets were swapping locker room leaders when they traded Brandon Nimmo for Marcus Semien. Bo Bichette is a popular player with fans and teammates. Jorge Polanco is irrelevant, but Freddy Peralta appeared to fit right in with the team in spring training. 

All of the pieces seemed to fit well. Luis Robert Jr., someone almost as irrelevant this year as Polanco, was already friends with Juan Soto. Maybe it all comes back to him and his alleged poor relationship with Francisco Lindor.

Eric Chavez sharing how Juan Soto would exit the dugout to be alone with an assistant GM early in 2025 was one of the more highly discussed points from his podcast than anything else. He tried to claim the onus goes on management when in actuality it made Soto look bad.

Martinez isn’t wrong about a lot of what he says. The Mets do lack an identity and personality. Leadership, on the other hand, was the one thing we were told in the preseason they had in abundance. Apparently not if that’s a constant those “in the know” keep referencing.

What Martinez had to say about the Mets matters only because of who he is. One of the all-time greats who experienced several different locker room formations and with multiple organizations, he should be able to sniff out something rotten. He didn’t go full Chavez on us and name names. It does sound like he’s holding back some of his feelings. Does he know more than he’s saying?

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