Let’s start with Francisco Lindor, who both plays and speaks like the ideal face of a team:
“I’m not going through the motions no matter what,” the Mets shortstop said Monday night. “I’m a professional baseball player. I’ve gotta go out there and give it my best, day in and day out. I owe it to the fans. I owe it to my teammates. I owe it to this organization, and I owe it to myself. So I will go every day and give everything I got.”
Let’s turn to Kodai Senga, who has been excellent in his first season in Major League Baseball and has made 22 starts after starting 23 games in Japan last year.
“It’s been a tough year for us, but I don’t think [the trade deadline sell-off] changes anything for myself,” Senga said through an interpreter recently. “I just need to go get to work every day.”
