{"id":275540,"date":"2021-06-15T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/former-mets-trainer-ray-ramirez-reacts-to-fan-criticism-over-injuries\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:30:00","slug":"former-mets-trainer-ray-ramirez-reacts-to-fan-criticism-over-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/former-mets-trainer-ray-ramirez-reacts-to-fan-criticism-over-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"#Former Mets trainer Ray Ramirez reacts to fan criticism over injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Former Mets trainer Ray Ramirez reacts to fan criticism over injuries<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ray Ramirez wants you to know that the injuries were not his fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez, who served as the Mets\u2019 head athletic trainer between 2004-17, emerged as a popular scapegoat for fans\u2019 frustration. His notoriety among fans increased along with the number of injured players.<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade after leaving the franchise, Ramirez has a message for the fanbase that ridiculed him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that the fans get frustrated, cause they want to see their stars healthy, playing, producing and to have the team win and succeed,\u201d Ramirez said on Monday to The Post\u2019s \u201cAmazin\u2019 But True\u201d podcast. \u201cBut the trainer is doing everything in his power, everything in the staff\u2019s power to get the players on the field as quickly as possible so that they can do what they do best.<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/amazin-but-true\/formermetstrainerrayramirezspeaksoutagainstcriticism?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re just the guy running on the field, so the fans have that perception of the guy that\u2019s carrying the player off the field as being the bad guy. You get used to it. You don\u2019t like it, but you get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, Ramirez\u2019s role as head athletic trainer encompassed far more than just aiding injured players off the field. Each day, he would wake up at 6 a.m. and leave his home in Sea Cliff, NY to meet players at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Once there, he would assist the players and hospital staffers with MRI exams, consultations and X-Rays before heading to Citi Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once at the ballpark, Ramirez would meet with the rest of his medical staff, including strength and conditioning coaches, massage therapists, and mental skills coaches. The group debriefed not only the health of the team\u2019s 25-man roster but the entire minor league system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" alt=\"Ray Ramirez responds to criticism he received during his tenure with the Mets.\" class=\"wp-image-18531765 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ramirez.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ramirez.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ramirez.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ramirez.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Ramirez.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ray Ramirez responds to criticism he received during his tenure with the Mets. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s constant communication going on,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cThe role of the head trainer was to oversee all of that. So you\u2019ve got a lot of fires to put out. So you don\u2019t have time to worry about the fans or what the paper says or what <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> says, or anything like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As hard as Ramirez tried to shut out the noise and ignore the clamoring for him to lose his job, the boos, in particular, grew unavoidable. During introductions on Opening Day in 2015, the Citi Field faithful often greeted Ramirez with ire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few friends would text me once in a while, \u2018Hey, they\u2019re talking smack to you,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018We got no control over that. They don\u2019t really know.\u2019 And when they don\u2019t know, there\u2019s nothing you can do about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"\/>Ramirez no longer works baseball and is instead employed with the military in South Korea as a part of a preventive care program for F-16 pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his message to Mets fans is especially pertinent, considering the rash of injuries that the team has endured this season. Ramirez hopes fans treat the current training staff \u2014 led by head athletic trainer Brian Chicklo \u2014 differently than they treated him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport your trainers and your medical staff as much as you do the team,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cThey work just as hard as the players to do as good a job as the players do. They take a lot of pride in it. They put a lot of hours in there. 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