Francisco Lindor couldn't help but laugh when he was asked if he had a message for Mets fans who were booing him by the end of Tuesday night's loss to the Red Sox.
The man who is always smiling has stumbled out of the gate in his debut season with the Mets, and the Citi Field fans reached a new level of frustration on Tuesday, but the ever-positive Lindor tried to settle down the frustrated fanbase.
"To the fans, you guys are fun," Lindor said before Wednesday's game against Boston. "Thank you for coming out every day and supporting the team…I'll give you guys the results. To me, the result is winning. That's all I want."
Lindor's personal numbers are hardly up to par with his career standards, currently hitting .212 with just one home run, and the team performance isn't up to his standards either, which is what he cares about much more. The Mets are a .500 club, but Lindor is hoping for a World Series title. He doesn't care if that comes with him raking or slumping at the plate, but New York likely needs the former out of their star shortstop if they are to reach that kind of goal.
"I didn't come here to hit .350 and win MVP," Lindor said. "I came to New York to win, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to win."
Lindor is on a quiet four-game hitting streak, but he isn't putting up the kind of production he was in spring training, before he signed his 10-year, $341 million deal just before the season began. Mets fans were eager to cheer on their new face of the franchise, but through the first 18 games, Lindor hasn't given many opportunities for those cheers. So he's hearing boos instead.
"Right now, the fans think I'm not doing my part to win and they want to see results, and the results will come for sure," Lindor said. "Whatever happens at the end of the day, I just want to come out on top at the end of the year."
Lindor said he hasn't made any changes in his approach or preparation as a result of his slow start, instead leaning on a career's worth of production to outweigh what has been a small sample size. Still, it's the only sample size Mets fans know up to this point, but Lindor is confident that will change.
"I'm doing the exact same thing I've been doing my whole career…what I've done my career has worked," Lindor said. "Yeah, you have to make adjustments as a professional baseball player…it's going to work."
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