{"id":320486,"date":"2025-11-29T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:33:07","slug":"report-lindor-verbally-attacked-mets-teammate-mcneil-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320486\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Lindor verbally attacked Mets teammate McNeil in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor verbally attacked teammate Jeff McNeil following a defensive lapse that contributed to the team&#8217;s seventh straight loss June 20 against the Philadelphia Phillies, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/28\/sports\/revealed-second-lindor-mcneil-battle-soto-relationship-underscore-mets-issues\/?sr_share=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost_sports&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_social_handle_id=589269098&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social_post_id=610498589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Post&#8217;s Mike Puma<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A play didn&#8217;t get made and that pissed (Lindor) off,&#8221; a source who was nearby the confrontation told Puma.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly led to a tense standoff between the two, although there&#8217;s no evidence to show it escalated into a physical altercation. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Lindor and McNeil have had their differences in five seasons as Mets teammates. Lindor reportedly grabbed McNeil by the throat and pinned him against a wall in the tunnel behind the Mets dugout in 2021 after the two middle infielders argued about a defensive play that wasn&#8217;t made. The incident was infamously played off as a disagreement over whether McNeil saw a rat or a racoon in the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The days of Lindor and McNeil making up the Mets&#8217; middle infield is likely over, though. New York recently acquired two-time Gold Glove second baseman Marcus Semien from the Texas Rangers in exchange for outfielder Brandon Nimmo. The deal is expected to move McNeil to the outfield on a full-time basis if he remains with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil has two years left on his contract with a club option for 2027. He hit .243 with 12 home runs and 54 RBIs last season.<\/p>\n<p>Lindor has six more seasons left on his contract and finished top 10 in NL MVP voting for the fourth consecutive campaign in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor verbally attacked teammate Jeff McNeil following a defensive lapse that contributed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-320486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}