{"id":322773,"date":"2021-08-12T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-gm-zack-scott-doubles-down-on-mets-player-accountability\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:35:03","slug":"mets-gm-zack-scott-doubles-down-on-mets-player-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-gm-zack-scott-doubles-down-on-mets-player-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets GM Zack Scott doubles down on Mets player accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets GM Zack Scott doubles down on Mets player accountability<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Mets started what promised to be an endless day in a hole that felt much bigger than the second-inning deficit they carried into Citi Field courtesy of Tuesday night\u2019s surprise storm.<\/p>\n

In the first and only act of a doubleheader that called for them to finish nine innings in Game<\/a> 1 and play seven in a Game 2 that would be postponed by rain, the Mets had to overcome Washington leads of 3-1, 4-1 and 7-4 to win, ultimately, on Brandon Drury\u2019s pinch-hit bloop in the eighth.<\/p>\n

They also had to overcome a challenge more forbidding than anything the woeful, strip<\/a>ped-down Nationals could muster: Zack Scott\u2019s decision to air out his players for failing to do more to help themselves and their team.<\/p>\n

Out of left field, off the top rope, the Mets\u2019 acting GM delivered his Zack attack Tuesday after his team had lost seven of eight, had played what he called \u201cunacceptably bad\u201d baseball and had landed \u2014 with a dramatic thud \u2014 in third place. Maybe he was sick and tired of Pete Alonso\u2019s talent for whistling past the graveyard and for insisting the sky was blue while being pelted by rain. Maybe he got nudged by an angry and embarrassed boss, Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n

Or maybe Scott, a guy who had been around a lot of postseason winning in his years in Boston, simply realized the Mets\u2019 training and prep habits were the methods of losers. So he called a press conference to say that when it came to the Mets\u2019 many soft-tissue injuries, the players, in some cases, were responsible for their place on the injured list. \u201cMost of the time, to be honest,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s compliance issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Come again?<\/p>\n

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\u201cActually following the plan,\u201d Scott said. \u201cBecause these are all individuals and control their own bodies and sometimes they\u2019re not as compliant as they should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The acting GM had clearly devolved into the acting-up GM. Scott mentioned the players\u2019 need to listen to the staffers who are constantly on them to properly hydrate. \u201cAt some point you gotta take that responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not just going to stick a needle in someone to hydrate them because they\u2019re not doing it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you were scoring Scott\u2019s jabs at home, it was hard to keep up. Once upon a time, in his opening press conference as Giants coach, Tom Coughlin unfortunately described his new team\u2019s many injuries as \u201ca cancer\u201d and a \u201cmental thing\u201d that he could correct. But in 35 years of covering sports in New York, I don\u2019t recall another GM blaming players for injuries the way Scott did.<\/p>\n