Yoenis Cespedes made it clear that he won’t be talking to the media this year. He was approached by the media at his locker on Monday which was the first day of the Mets full-squad workout. He declined to speak to the media about his offseason, his health, since recovering from double-heel surgery and the wild boar that he encountered on his property which led to his ankle fracture. He had told the Mets originally that he stepped in a hole. It caused him to suffer a severe incentive-laced pay cut which led to an amended contract of a six million base salary.
When the media tried to get Cespedes to talk, He said, “Not today, not tomorrow, not at all this year.”
When the media asked him, “Why,” “Because I don’t want to,” he replied. When asked if he had an obligation to talk to his fans, he changed his tune a little bit and said, “Maybe I’ll talk to my fans”
The fans are waiting to hear from him. He walked away immediately after speaking to the Mets reporters for the first time since last February.
I thought Cespedes would look forward to speak to the media since he predicted that he would hit fifty home runs in 2020 a couple of months ago. He has posted videos that show him hitting, running, throwing, catching and working out in the weight room.
He has been at camp since the onset of when pitchers and catchers reported. He is determined to do well since he lost thirty million dollars. He is hoping to acquire a few incentives. If he doesn’t begin the season on the disabled list his salary will increase to eleven million and plate appearances could add another nine million to his salary.
Some teams have been calling the Mets to acquire Cespedes, but the Mets are not immediately trying to work out a trade to attach a prospect to a deal in exchange for a team taking Cespedes salary off of their hands since he is coming off a serious injury. They would rather wait and see how he does through spring training, then maybe they will try to trade him.
Mets Manager Luis Rojas was happy that Cespedes joined the guys to do some activity and make it
through the day. The focus on Cespedes is going to be that he’s going through the day to be able to
progress into playing at some point. Nobody knows how he will perform in 2020, however the Mets are hoping that Cespedes will show some of the power he demonstrated back in 2016
Every time I hear a story about Cespedes, the song lyrics, "The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow (come what may)" cycle through my head.
ReplyDeleteGod, I wish we would dump this clubhouse cancer.
ReplyDeleteCespedes took Rick Porcello deep today in BP.
ReplyDeleteThat confirms my cynicism about having decided to pay Rick Porcello money to pitch for the Mets.
ReplyDeleteMack, let's dump Cespedes after 40 and 100!
ReplyDeleteWonder how his teammates feel about Cespedes.
ReplyDeleteWe tend to forget he took paddles to the lifeless corpse of the Mets team in 2015 and led it into the WS. Maybe, just maybe, he will be huge again.
Have you seen the video? He's huge already. No boar is going to make bacon out of him again.
ReplyDeleteTed Williams never spoke to the press too. Not everyone wants to be president I guess.
ReplyDeletePersonally speaking here, I just want a good, cohesive, fun, and undaunted baseball team, one who has a real life shot at the brass ring. The interviews, the statistical/analytical summaries of how each player performed that game (as if we are all blind or something), the press scoops, television host/critics who never once played the game or took a single snap, it just matters not at all to me. I simply find it all a little too puff the magic dragonian for me to concern myself with. A way for others to perhaps parasite off the sport I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIt's the game that counts. That's the real story here.
tom, hopefully he will be huge again.
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