This Week in Mets Quotes: Mets love playing at Citi, Pete loves New York City

Lots of interesting, funny, idiotic, and insightful things were said by the Mets—and about them—recently. Here are some of our favorites.

Your 2025 New York Mets: There’s a lot of room for growth, but overall, it’s been…good.

“There’s a lot of room for growth, but overall, it’s been — I felt pretty good. And I think today was good — just like you said, you’re experiencing something new and having to deal with those things. But for me, a lot of it’s been relying on the people I have around me. … So in that regard, it hasn’t been all on me — I’ve been able to trust people around me, and I think it’s been a group effort.” -Clay Holmes [MLB]

While the Mets went 3-4 this week…

“It’s not always going to be like that. It’s not as easy as they’re making it look. It’s hard to hit at this level, but it’s good to see them performing.” -Carlos Mendoza [New York Daily News]

…their run differential was +16, and in all the losses, they were one big hit away from a win.

“We always feel like we’re gonna come back. We felt like we were rolling in the ninth, but even before the inning started, we thought we were gonna do it.” -Mark Vientos [New York Post]

It’s generally not a good sign when you have these many quotes with these many words from your setup guy; but, to give credit where it’s due, Ryne Stanek is accountable post-game.

“It doesn’t feel good that the last three times have not gone well results-wise. But I can’t look at one pitch I didn’t execute over the last three games. … They couldn’t have thrown the ball in a better spot. It sucks.” -Ryne Stanek [New York Post]

“You just go back to work. I mean, that’s the job. You go out there — I mean, they get paid to play ball, too. So like, you go out there and you execute your game plan and, yeah, a couple balls fall or squeak through or whatever happens like that — that’s out of your control. You go out there and you execute and you move on, go to the next day and execute the next day.” -Ryne Stanek [MLB]

“Obviously it’s tough, didn’t go the way I wanted. The tough part is you go out there and execute pitches, and I felt like I executed a lot of pitches. … The only thing I control is executing pitches, and I felt like I did an all right job of that.” -Ryne Stanek [MLB]

Carlos Mendoza prior to Juan Soto having a 2 HR game.

“We went through a stretch where he was hitting a lot of balls on the ground, even at 108 [mph], but it was ground balls. I see him now with some more line drives. We saw it against the Nationals. Yesterday, there was a couple of balls, one to center, one to left, against a lefty. There are some good signs.” -Carlos Mendoza [New York Daily News]

“He’ll be alright.” -Carlos Mendoza [New York Daily News]

Parkman does his little shimmy at the plate. Drives the women here in Cleveland crazy!

“It’s going to come out one day. It just depends — I just gotta feel it.” -Juan Soto [New York Times]

/Oprah voice/ You get a catcher with a broken hand, you get a 33-year-old utility guy…

“We’ve got Alvy, we’ve got Jeff, and you can feel the impact and how deep it makes our lineup.” -Carlos Mendoza [New York Daily News]

…but, seriously, I have my doubts, but if McNeil can be somewhat cromulent in CF, his ROS ZiPS of 105 wRC+ will play real well.

“I talked to them, and they told me to be ready for anything and I’ll continue to get reps out there, and feel more and more comfortable up there and see what happens.” -Jeff McNeil [MLB]

The Conversation was not easy, but The Decision def was.

“(The conversation was) not an easy one. Especially with the way both of [Baty and Acuna] played.” -Carlos Mendoza [NJ]

Everyone cannot emphasize enough that they did not think this was a home run off the bat.

“I got really inside the ball there, and the ball was able to kind of straighten out and it didn’t tail off [foul]… I didn’t know it was a home run off the bat. I saw that there was somebody at first, so I had to bust it out of the box there.” -Francisco Alvarez [MLB]

“When he’s able to hit a ball out like that, pretty impressive. I didn’t think — off the bat, I didn’t think that ball was going to go. And it just kept going. He’s got the ability to use the whole field and drive the ball with authority, and that’s what makes him a special player.” -Carlos Mendoza [MLB]

36k fans on a Thursday, May 1 day game. The tide is turning.

“It’s always electric here, man. We love playing here. I can speak for everybody on that.” -Tyrone Taylor [MLB]

Love Nimmo, but with five years after this one on his contract, really would be nice for him to start putting it together.

“We started seeing the Nimmo that we all know. Pretty good player, and it was good to see him go out there and have that type of performance.” -Carlos Mendoza [MLB]

The difference between Nimmo reacting to being told he tied the Mets franchise record for RBIs in a game…

“You have an idea. There’s definitely a part of you that is keeping track, especially when [first-base coach Antoan Richardson] came up after the double — the last time I got on base — and he was like, ‘Well, nine RBIs, that’s got to be a career high, right?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, that definitely is.’ … I think before this, my career high was like five, and that was an amazing day as well.” -Brandon Nimmo [MLB]

“It was told to me right after the game. And I had no idea. … I was thinking, ‘Oh man, it’d be really cool to get double-digit RBIs in a day,’ when I was coming up before Swaggy [Mark Vientos] hit the three-run homer. And I was like, ‘Oh man, yeah, this would be sweet if I could get a couple more out of it.’” -Brandon Nimmo [MLB]

“It’s been a little bit frustrating and you never know, days like today might happen — obviously, tying a franchise record in RBIs, that obviously doesn’t happen every day. But even just getting balls in the air, hitting balls hard — it doesn’t always work out like that. So really just enjoyed today. -Brandon Nimmo [MLB]

…versus Pete being told he’s getting closer to the Mets all time home run record.

“Oh, sick. That’s awesome. Hell yeah. We’ve had such a tremendous amount of guys come through this organization who were just absolute ballers. To be on that list, that’s really cool.” -Pete Alonso [MLB]

Just solid life advice too.

“One of the biggest things that I’ve learned is just, if you try to suppress that feeling, or if you try to, like, pretend that you’re not nervous or have a little bit of anxiety, or — everybody has a little bit of doubt — if you acknowledge it and say, ‘All right, I know that you’re there, but like, I am going to execute and I’m going to succeed.’” -Reed Garrett [MLB]

Sandy Alderson must be fuming with the way the Mets’ defense is playing.

“I’ve never seen anything like that.” -David Peterson [MLB]

“I shocked myself a little bit [adding that pitcher David Peterson hugged him three times in thanks for the effort.]” -Tyrone Taylor [MLB]

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