ATLANTA — Francisco Lindor‘s lengthy nationwide nightmare may lastly be over quickly. The Mets‘ crew chief is at the moment the main Nationwide League vote-getter at shortstop in All-Star voting.
Monday evening, MLB launched the primary voting replace for the 2025 All-Star Sport, which can be held at Truist Park in Atlanta on July 15. The Mets have been well-represented, with Lindor, Pete Alonso and Juan Soto all receiving sufficient votes to place them within the top-5 at their respective positions. There have been a couple of surprises as properly, with catcher Francisco Alvarez opening up in third place, infielder/outfielder Jeff McNeil garnering the fourth-most votes at second base, and Starling Marte at the moment holding the fifth-most at DH.
Lindor incomes extra votes than the Dodgers’ Mookie Betts shouldn’t be stunning, however one way or the other the shortstop has been snubbed for the All-Star recreation yearly since he’s been with the Mets. Sluggish begins to his season doomed him from 2021-2024, however in every of these years, he had greater than turned it round by about mid-June, loads of time for followers to vote him into the Midsummer Traditional, and loads of time for the league to take discover as properly.
“It’s crazy that after everything that he’s done as a player here in this league that he hasn’t made an All-Star as a Met,” supervisor Carlos Mendoza stated Tuesday at Truist Park. “Watching how the voting goes and seeing that he’s main, I’m pleased with him…
“But he’s got to keep going.”
Lindor has compiled a 3.0 fWAR this season, tied for the Twelfth-best in baseball. In earlier years, the shortstop has been within the top-10 in each fWAR and bWAR and nonetheless hasn’t made it into the All-Star recreation. Final yr, he completed second behind Shohei Ohtani in NL MVP voting, and whereas sure, that got here properly after the All-Star break, Lindor was nonetheless an elite participant all through a lot of the primary half of the 2024 season.
The final time Lindor made an All-Star crew, it was in 2019 as a member of the Cleveland Guardians. His omission has confounded the Mets and plenty of others round baseball. Usually, when elite gamers go from a smaller market to an enormous one, they get extra consideration, not much less.
But when 2025 is the yr Lindor lastly will get again to the All-Star Sport, so be it.
“It’s an honor,” Mendoza stated. “We are all proud of him, but again, he’s got to finish the job.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brett Baty was out of the lineup Tuesday with groin soreness. The second/third baseman left Sunday’s recreation with groin tightness, however the Mets don’t imagine the harm to be severe. Baty traveled to Atlanta with the Mets and took part in baseball actions Tuesday, attempting to see how a lot he may deal with earlier than the crew made a willpower about whether or not or not he can be accessible off the bench towards the Braves.
Third baseman Mark Vientos (hamstring pressure) began a minor league rehab project Tuesday evening with Triple-A Syracuse, entering into the lineup as a DH. He’ll be off Wednesday, then play within the discipline Friday, working as much as enjoying back-to-back video games at third base. Place gamers have 20 days to finish minor league rehab assignments, however the Mets are hopeful Vientos will return earlier than his clock runs out.
Left-hander Sean Manaea will transfer from Low-A Brooklyn to Triple-A Syracuse for his subsequent rehab begin Friday. Proper-hander Frankie Montas will make what the Mets hope to be his last rehab begin Wednesday with Syracuse.
ON THE FARM
Two Mets prospects gained participant of the week awards of their respective leagues. Infielder/outfielder Jett Williams, the membership’s prime general prospect, was named the Double-A Jap League Participant of the Week after hitting .385 with a 1.428 OPS with two dwelling runs, eight RBI, three triples, three doubles, 4 walks and a stolen base in six video games towards Richmond.
Proper-hander Brendan Girton, of Excessive-A Brooklyn, was named the South Atlantic League’s Pitcher of the Week with 5 excellent innings and three strikeouts.
Low-A St. Lucie secured a playoff spot by clinching the Florida State League East Division on Sunday evening.
