New York – In the Citi Field team store, there is no evidence of the recent and noisy past.
Among an endless sea of Blue and Orange Mets Brick-A-Brack, there are no shreds of grimace purple. Not an OMG t-shirt in sight. Nothing about the pumpkin in the playoffs of Pete Alonso. No manifest references to the 2024 dishes, this noisy thrill tour of a ball club that broke expectations and reorganized a franchise.
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Last year's outfit was a whirlwind, a wagon, a factory of memes, a statistical improbability. On May 30, the dishes were 10 games in less than 0,500 and a reflection after the fact, a punchline. Then a summer from Dreamland changed everything. On October 9, the dishes won a place in the NLC by eliminating the phillies in front of 44,000. Based along the way, a corn from abundance of bits took root, becoming an inextricable part of history, as great as the action itself.
But the 2025 dishes, in order to author a new story, have chosen to leave the past. So far, so good: the club is currently tied for the best baseball record.
“The only thing that concerned me and that we were talking about a lot internally,” said Data Baseball President David Stearns on Monday, “was that we did not want to fall into the trap of trying to recreate in 2024. It was going to be different.”
Slugger Jesse Winker, a favorite of high passion fans, expressed the same more colorful feeling when questioning about this subject to spring training.
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“If you hang on to the same S ***, there would be no progress,” he said. “Like, imagine if we still lived how we lived during the Second World War. The F *** would we do? ”
This state of mind firmly holds through the New York clubhouse, despite the amount of continuity in the depth table of the dishes.
Of the 26 players included on the list of NLCs in 2024 in New York, only six – Jose Iglesias, Harrison Bader, JD Martinez, Luis Severino, Jose Quintana and Phil Maton – are no longer with the organization. Stearns and the Front Office have chosen to bring four crucial pieces from last year's team – Winker, the first basic player Pete Alonso, the Ryne Stanek lift and the starting launcher Sean Manaea – in the free agency. Iglesias, whose bizarre climb to Latin pop celebrity has become a rallying cry, is the most culturally notable departure.
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But despite the feeling of familiarity, the 2025 group consciously tries to create its own energy.
“You absolutely cannot try to copy and stick this feeling because it is not authentic,” Stanek told Yahoo Sports during spring training. “It would be false. A large part of it was only pure chaos, random stuff that occurred. The grimace thing, Iggy being a pop star with a concert in the inner field – a large part of this was really cool for the moment, but if you were trying to do it again, it would be cheap.”
Star-COURT Francisco Lindor, the team's de facto captainechoes this feeling.
“(Establishing a new identity) is definitively important,” he said in February. “Each team has its own, so we will see what type of identity we end up training.”
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The signing of the SURERSTAR JUAN SOTO SUPERSTAR ALLOWER to a record contract of $ 765 million which alters the paradigm was the first sign that 2025 would begin an entirely different era of dishes. But this feeling of reinvention is not limited to locker room. It is clear that the Mets Marketing Department has chosen to minimize specific patterns of 2024, including OMG imagery linked to the successful song of Iglesias.
The OMG signs made by hand of last season, which featured in good place during the matches, were preserved but are no longer totems at stake. We live in the temple of the reputation of Citi dishes; The other was sent to Cooperstown to be registered in the national baseball renowned temple. The dishes commemorate the old while kissing the new one.
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Almost a month after the start of the new season, the decision to turn the page seems wise. The 16-7 record record is tied with Los Angeles and San Diego for the best in baseball. New York pitch staff have a team era of 2.43, The lowest note in the league. Alonso has the highest MLB ops for an unnamed player Aaron Judge. Lindor, traditionally a slow starter, has already taken a tours of five long balls. The dishes are 10-1 at home. They won five in a row. To put it simply, there is a good swirling atmosphere in the stadium.
Consequently, attendance at the CITI terrain is increasing – one ton. Compared to this point in 2024, the dishes attracted 14,530 more fans per game. It is an amazing bump, also linked to a disappointing 2023 season which had no fans buying tickets in April 2024. But this time, people are energized and pack the place: 35,430 forts for a Monday evening, lively against the philliesFor example.
It is a testimony to the excitement mentioned by the team of last year, as well as the arrival of Soto and the continuous superstom of Lindor. The experience of the day of the Citi Field match continues to impress, with catchy light shows and the largest video card in the sport. In addition, the team wins. If this continues, no one will grasp the absence of grimace.
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Life continues, just like dishes.
“Everything we are currently a part is like a giant, giant, giant and giant directory,” said Winker poetically. “The first year took place in 62. We are now in '25, and this is just a big seated directory. Go watch your old high school directory. Each year was something different, right? Maybe your basketball team has won a year.
“That's all that is – a big ass birthday.”
