Francisco Lindor’s answer about the NY Mets sweeping the Marlins feels different

The New York Mets won a unique one on Wednesday, sealing a 3-game sweep over the MIami Marlins in their ballpark. Anyone who has followed Mets history will know the significance. The Mets have a tendency of seeing their season slip away late in the year at the hands of the fish.

The script flipped this week. Three losses to the Mets dropped the Marlins to 6.5 games away from a Wild Card spot. It was never going to be easy for them to make it to the postseason, but these losses seemed to be the penultimate nail in their season. Had the results been reversed, the Marlins would have had momentum heading into the final two and a half weeks.

Francisco Lindor was asked about the level of satisfaction that came with sweeping the Marlins. This wasn’t some random question. When the Marlins won game 162 in Miami last season, it eliminated the Mets from having a spot in the playoffs. They behaved as if they slayed a dragon or earned themselves a place in the postseason. Lindor took a much more humble approach, but something still seems off.

This sounds like Francisco Lindor has changed his tune on every Mets game mattering

Lindor looks and sounds exhausted. Based on the body language, you’d think the Mets lost. Plenty of times in the past Lindor has been the ra-ra win-win guy and in this instance, he doesn’t seem to know what to feel.

That’s all right. The Mets winning games right now does become more costly for the team overall. Rising in the standings will only hurt their draft placement more. They are currently in the 7th slot which is really the 17th because they'll drop 10 places due to spending over the luxury tax. Several teams are only a game or two better.

Lindor has never been the kind of guy to make a notation of what the greater good for the Mets is in the draft. As different of a vibe as this is, it’s not the first time in recent days where he has been more neutral than anything else.

After Freddy Peralta beat the Mets, Lindor denied the idea that the ex-teammate was any better.

This stoic version of Lindor is probably somewhat a result of being asked a little too much about his relationship with Juan Soto and whether or not he’ll waive his no-trade clause this winter. It’s almost as if he doesn’t want to give the media anything to run with. Had he shown a lot more pride in sweeping the Marlins, the “what does it matter?” folks would have ammunition. His more neutral stance is more blah. Perhaps this is the result of missing a large portion of the season, underperforming for a chunk of it, and forgetting what it’s like to play games with something on the line.

July 31 was around the last time, at least on the SNY Mets X timeline, where Lindor was overly confident in the Mets.

Reality must’ve hit shortly after as the Mets began to play well in August and all for nothing.

Lindor is wrong about one thing. Sweeping the Marlins should matter. He doesn’t say it, but do we really believe he wasn’t thrilled with a little bit of payback? I have a hard time believing someone as competitive as him wasn’t dancing a little inside.

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