The rivalry between the New York Mets and the New York Yankees has lost interest in recent years, but with the recent affront after the choice of Juan Soto to leave the Bronx to play in Queens for a $765 million, 15-year contract is an ingredient that will spice up the Subway Series games in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.
Despite the expectation of seeing what Juan Soto will do when he faces his former team, one of his main partners in the Mets, Francisco Lindor, seems to downplay the importance of the duel for supremacy of the Big Apple, during his participation in WFAN Sports Radio.
“I feel like we’re in a really good position until we play against them and, you know, see what happens at the beginning of the year,” Lindor told WFAN Sports Radio about what he expects when he faces the Yankees again
Francisco Lindor downplays rivalry between Mets and Yankees
For the Puerto Rican shortstop, the comparison between the Mets and Yankees should be about who has more success in the 2025 season, and he recognized that they were outplayed in 2024, although they were close to repeating the 2000 World Series, but were eliminated by the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
“Obviously, they went further than us last year, but nobody really cares who cares and pays attention to what we did last year or the year before. We have to go out and get it done this year,” Lindor said.
According to data highlighted on the Essentially Sports website, Lindor’s opinion is not far-fetched if you look at the average attendance of the Subway Series in 2024, which was around 38,000 fans, far from the 45,000 spectators on average that were recorded in the early 2010s. In addition, television ratings have also been declining over the past five years, with a 15% drop in the combined audience of YES Network and SNY.
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