Austin Adams doesn't want his Mets celebration mockery to look as personal as it was

Austin Adams is having a decent year for the Oakland Athletics aside from hitting a league-leading 13 batters. He won’t reach his record of 24 set back in 2021 as a member of the San Diego Padres. Only relevant to New York Mets fans because he was with the team in spring training, sliding out of a jam in his appearance against his former ball club gave him enough cause for celebration.

This is the kind of infuriating thing a pitcher might do after closing out a big game. It’s what we’d have to expect from a pitcher on the Atlanta Braves or Philadelphia Phillies. Let’s even include the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres later this month.

Adams, who was traded for cash back in the spring, doesn’t fit the motif of the kind of guy who can boisterously showboat after a big strikeout. Everyone else seemed as confused, uncaring, and unchanged by his display.

Austin Adams seemed to take getting traded by the Mets personally

This one seems personal for sure. Adams signed a split contract in the offseason only to go from New York to Oakland before the year even began. From a possible contender to a ball club with no shot at making the postseason has to hit the system with a shock. Beyond the standings, his like from a geographical standpoint drastically altered, too. The split contract seemed to at least guarantee him a minor league deal which would’ve put him up in Syracuse.

Mets manager Carlos Mendoza was as surprised as anyone for Adams to get so animated.

Over in the visitor’s locker room, Athletics manager Mark Kotsay didn’t think it was that big of a deal and even seemed to encourage this type of behavior.

In the end, who really cares? Adams wasn’t booed like Paul Sewald was during his tenure to help create a villain when he succeeded elsewhere. As irrelevant as Sewald was in Mets history, Adams and his 7 spring training games is even further behind in the power rankings. Although his 5.68 ERA in 6.1 innings in the preseason helped drive him out of St. Lucie, the 12 strikeouts sure did hint at him being able to become a big contributor.

Adams seemed to backtrack after the game, ignoring what the NSFW lip readers ultimately determined he said as well.

Sentences that start with "Honestly" usually have some dishonesty in them.

Sports are emotional and Adams let his take over. Choreographed ahead of time or not, the real sting came when the final out of the game took place and the Mets had fewer runs than the Athletics. What happened in the fifth inning became unimportant. The Mets got clobbered and they need to come back with some emotion of their own on Wednesday.