Mets manager Terry Collins talked to media before Game 2 of the World Series on Tuesday and said…
On Noah Syndergaard‘s comments…
“They are allowed to say whatever they want to say. I don’t muzzle anybody. You’ve got to be able to back it up and he backed it up.”
On what Juan Uribe brings to the Mets team…
“Well, numbers are very, very important and they’re very useful, but there are players who bring a presence to a team and numbers can’t describe it. The personalities, the overachieving, the energy sometimes some guys bring. And Juan Uribe is a guy who has done this before and had success doing it. He’s one of the guys that’s on that bench that I feel, certainly against the Royals, which is why we were really hoping he would be ready for the World Series, who has the innate ability to get to the barrel of the bat to a 97-mile-an-hour fastball. It’s hard to do. But he knows enough. He’s been around long enough to know, hey, I’ve got to start this thing early to get to it.
Last night he got a breaking ball over the plate. You can see he started to swing and then paused but got a base hit to the right field. But he’s not intimidated by what’s going on and I think that’s why it’s important.”
On using Jeurys Familia in the 9th, up six runs…
“Stay sharp for tonight is why I used him. The one thing, he hadn’t pitched in two nights. You don’t know when he’s going to get in again. So I wanted to make sure he got an inning last night. We talked before the game, he wanted to pitch an inning. The more he pitches, the sharper he is.
Yeah, it would have been very easy to pass him last night, not to have to use him. But we don’t have that many more games to play, and he’s a big, strong guy that has to pitch. So I thought one inning wouldn’t hurt him, and he didn’t use that many pitches so he’ll be ready tonight.”
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