Mets, comfortable with unexpected rotation and new receiver
Carlos Mendoza, Mets Manager, is widely pleased with his roster to start the 2025 MLB season
Although the New York Mets will start the 2025 season with an unexpected rotation of pitchers and a new receiver, the Venezuelan Carlos Mendoza He is extremely pleased by the roster he handles in his second season as a major league manager.
The Mets will begin the long calendar of the major leagues visiting the Houston Astros, on Thursday, in the Minute Maid Park, now appointed Daikin Park. Then they will play two matches against the Miami Marlins in Florida, before inaugurating the season at home, against the Toronto Blue Jays, on April 4.
With the lesions of left -handed Sean Manaea and Dominican Law Frankie Montás, two acquisitions of the free agency that were designed to command the staff of opening launchers, and the receiver Francisco Álvarez, New York will start the campaign with the rights Clay Holmes, Tylor Megill, Griffin Canning and Kodai Senga and the left -handed Torrens behind the plate.
“It is unfortunate that they are Manaea and Frankie Montás would fall early on training. Unfortunate for them, but at the same time opportunities are opened to others,” Mendoza told Digital AM850 On Monday, before the last pre -season shock, against the New York Yankees.
“We always talk about the depth we had as a team and felt quite comfortable with our rotation,” Mendoza said. “Megill has made incredible adjustments, Clay Holmes in his transition, Senga is healthy, Peterson comes from a season where he took a step forward and Canning Griffin making adjustments. We feel comfortable,” he added.
Holmes, who is making the transition from reliever to a starter, obtained the honor of starting the inaugural game, after a spectacular spring performance, during which he had an effectiveness of 1.93 and fanned 23 hitters in 19.1 innings in five participations.
“I feel proud of him. He was the first to report to spring training, in the second week of January, and the work plan that our pitching coaches put together,” Mendoza said about Holmes, who has not started a game in six years.
“We saw the results in exhibition games, although now you have to do it in real games, but we are confident that all those adjustments it has made and the way it has been prepared has put yourself in a good position to succeed,” he said.
The good news for Mendoza and the Mets is that Manaea (right -handed side) and Álvarez (operated hand) are scheduled to debut in the last week of April, while Montás (back/shoulder) is fulfilling a protocol to return between May and June.
“Knowing that Manaea is not far away and that Montás will return at some point makes us feel comfortable,” said Mendoza. “There is no panic. It is unfortunate that Álvarez will be hurt, but we know that Torrens and his substitute will do the job,” he added.
On the offensive, the Mets, who arrived at the National League Championship series last season, have few holes.
Dominican gardener Juan Soto, signed in a 15 -year historical contract and $ 765 million dollars, joined a group that includes the sensational Puerto Rican Torpedo Francisco Lindor, who was second in the vote of the most valuable player of the National League in 2024, the initialist Pete Alonso, the previous Mark winds and the gardeners Brandon Nimmo, Starling Marte, Jose Siri and Jesse Winker, among others.
If everything goes well, Queens’s team will have a great opportunity to find its first division title since 2015, when they played their fifth and final world series.
“The negative gusts will arrive alone, but we learned that we must be consistent, trust the processes, trust the staff. I like to be consistent, be real, to be honest with the players, the only difference is that this year I already know the organization and I do not have to be knowing eight or ten people every day,” Mendoza said.
