{"id":79988,"date":"2023-09-21T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-met-says-this-years-team-was-least-hardest-working-group-of-position-players-ive-ever-played-with-79988"},"modified":"2023-09-21T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:36:39","slug":"former-met-says-this-years-team-was-least-hardest-working-group-of-position-players-ive-ever-played-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-met-says-this-years-team-was-least-hardest-working-group-of-position-players-ive-ever-played-with-79988","title":{"rendered":"Former Met says this year&#8217;s team was &#8216;least-hardest working group of position players I\u2019ve ever played with&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Mets<\/a> are going to miss out on the postseason after winning 101 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Such a drop-off is almost unheard of in baseball, and it&#8217;s even worse when you remember there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three wild-card teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simply, nothing went right for the Mets, whether it was players not living up to the back of their baseball card or injuries depleting the squad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But one member of this year&#8217;s Mets says there was a problem with the team that has nothing to do with stats.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Pham signed a one-year deal with the Mets before this season began, but he was dealt to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> in August as the team was forced to become sellers \u2013 and it&#8217;s safe to say he&#8217;s pretty happy about that deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pham criticized the work ethic of the clubhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Pham told <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4854008\/2023\/09\/21\/mets-mlb-season-record-trajectory-performance\/#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic<\/a> that he went up to shortstop Francisco Lindor and said, &#8220;Out of all the teams I played on, this is the least-hardest working group of position players I\u2019ve ever played with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/brewers-pitcher-162-game-suspension-testing-positive-same-ped-second-time\"><strong>BREWERS PITCHER GETS 162-GAME SUSPENSION AFTER HE TESTS POSITIVE FOR SAME PED A SECOND TIME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pham added that Lindor thanked him shortly before he was traded &#8220;for teaching me how to work hard again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pham said that notion need not apply to Lindor, Brandon Nimmo or Pete Alonso \u2013 ironically, the latter&#8217;s name has circled around the rumor mill for several months. Nimmo, a homegrown Met, signed an eight-year, $162 million deal over the offseason to stay in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>There also have been rumors that the clubhouse had turned sour \u2013 one Met told the New York Post that Justin Verlander was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/justin-verlander-addresses-mets-diva-rumors-allegedly-ticked-off-max-scherzer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;diva&#8221; and &#8220;detached&#8221;<\/a> from the rest of the team. 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