With the Boston Red Sox skipper Alex Cora stepping away from duties midseason, the spotlight has shifted to New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza.

His team has already dropped 19 games and is, for all practical purposes, out of the playoff race. The threat exists for him, too, but is he worried?

After the Alex Cora fiasco, Carlos Mendoza was forced to answer questions about his own future after the Mets yet again failed to win. However, despite the fall, Mendoza appeared not worried about his position, saying, “The only thing I'm worried about here is I got to get the guys going.”

He further added, “I get it. I get it. It s****, and I know the questions will continue to come up, but my job is to find a way to get the guys out of the funk. That's the bottom line.”

The Mets are crumbling; they’re now 10 games under .500 after dropping 15 of their last 17 games.

At 9-19, the team has tied with the Philadelphia Phillies for the worst record in baseball. And if you look at it, the Mets are in a far uglier slump than the Red Sox, who hammered 17 runs against the Baltimore Orioles and followed it up with a 5–3 win in their very next game.

The Mets have managed just 92 runs, the lowest in MLB so far, while posting a league-worst .625 OPS and a .226 batting average. Francisco Alvarez is the only qualified hitter on the roster with an OPS above .700.

“It's hard to explain when you have that many guys going through it at the same time," Mendoza said. "It's just not a good showing. Not good at-bats up and down. Get a guy here and there, but overall, it's not hitting the ball hard consistently, and it's hard to explain."

While he hasn’t explained his team’s struggles, Mendoza believes he has fallen short.

“I fell short,” said Carlos Mendoza about his 2026 slump

For Carlos, this 2026 stretch has been one of the toughest of his professional career, and considering the team also slumped in 2025, the disappointment is immense. Management is looking into the issues, but the skipper believes he failed to communicate.

“I take pride in being a good communicator. I feel like I fell short,” the Mets manager told The Athletic on Monday. “It’s not that I didn’t talk to players. To be really good at what we do, you have to communicate at an elite level, and I don’t think I did that last year at times. That’s the biggest thing for me.”

“You look back and whether it’s using the coaching staff, the medical staff, explaining a role to a player a little bit better — it’s not that I didn’t do it, but when you have high standards and high expectations, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.”

Regardless of whether the problem lies in communication or coaching, the Mets have to act before the season becomes a complete disaster.

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Written by

Suryakant Das

Edited by

Suyashdeep Sason