Carlos Mendoza Admits Mets Losses Are ‘All the Same’: Is the Manager About to Lose His Job?
The New York Mets are 22-32 and trending in the wrong direction. Manager Carlos Mendoza has run out of new ways to describe how bad it has been.
The Mets dropped Monday’s home game to the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 at Citi Field. That made it four losses in five games, including a sweep at the hands of the Miami Marlins. The Mets are in last place in the NL East. FanGraphs gives them just a 16.6 percent chance to make the playoffs.
“They’re all frustrating, especially when you’re not playing well,” Mendoza told reporters via SNY. “They’re all the same, to be honest with you. It sucks.”
The Starting Pitching Is Broken
Monday’s game went off the rails almost immediately. Nolan McLean, the Mets starter, allowed seven earned runs on five hits in just 3.1 innings. Cincinnati put up the first seven runs of the night before New York’s bats even noticed there was a game happening.
The Mets did not push a run across until the sixth inning. By then the game was decided. This is the problem in a nutshell. The starting rotation is leaving the bullpen exposed, and the lineup is not capable of digging out of multi-run holes the way it did in 2024.
This roster was supposed to be a contender. Steve Cohen spent the money. Juan Soto is on the books for the next decade-plus. Pete Alonso is doing his job. The bullpen has been the lone bright spot. The rotation is in disarray, and the lineup outside of Soto and Alonso has produced almost nothing.
Mendoza’s Seat Is Warming Up Again
The Mets gave Mendoza a vote of confidence back in April when reports said the team had no plans to fire him. That was when New York was hovering around .500 and the slump felt temporary.
The slump is no longer temporary. The Mets are 10 games under .500 with two-thirds of the season still to play. The window for turnaround is shrinking. If they fall another six games back of the Phillies before the All-Star break, the front office will have to consider a change just to send a message to the clubhouse.
Mendoza is not the reason this roster is underperforming, but the manager is always the easiest piece to move when the season is on fire.
What Comes Next
The Mets need a hot streak in the next 30 games or this season is going to spiral into selloff territory at the deadline. That would be a disaster for a franchise that was supposed to be contending for a World Series.
Cohen is not going to sit through another quiet July. If the Mets are still last in the NL East at the All-Star break, expect real changes. The manager, the pitching coach, and at least one veteran on the roster could all be on the move.
Mendoza’s honest answer about the losses being “all the same” is going to be one of the defining quotes of this Mets season. The only thing that can change the narrative is winning. And winning has been hard to find.
A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
