Mets manager Luis Rojas didn't feel like Steve Cohen's tweet calling out the team's offense was a specific attack on any one player, and admitted that the lineup as a whole has to perform better in order to fight their way back towards first place.
"We all have to be held accountable for the team's performance," Rojas said before Wednesday's game against the MLB-best Giants. "I think the players are very vulnerable. They come here and say they're frustrated, some of them feel that they're underperforming and they're working really hard. We're all in this. It doesn't single out one player or one coach. At the end of the day, we have to win games."
Cohen tweeted about his befuddlement with the Mets offense, saying it was hard to grasp a lineup being so unproductive. Hitting coach Hugh Quattlebaum remained even-keeled when asked about Cohen's remarks, putting the focus on himself and the staff, and Rojas kept the focus on the team as a whole, stressing that everyone needed to be better following the Mets' fifth straight loss to fall below the .500 mark on the season.
"Some areas right now are performing better than others, but we're all being held accountable for the team's performance at the end of the day," Rojas said.
A major issue for New York has been a group of hitters performing well below their career norms, but nobody is being singled out. Everyone needs to be better in order to save the season from its current freefall, which hit a new low with Tuesday's loss and Cohen's public venting.
"We don't feel like a single person is being attacked," Rojas said. "We're all being accountable here. We just gotta work…think of different things we can do to find this approach that we know we can do and that we've been working hard to get to."
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