Mets Facing Backlash After Francisco Lindor Announcement
Mets Facing Backlash After Francisco Lindor Announcement originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor is amid another productive season. Now 31 years old, Lindor is in his 11th MLB campaign, and well on his way to a fifth All-Star Game selection. Entering Monday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lindor ranks first among National League shortstops in OPS (.845) and home runs (13).
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On Sunday, Lindor hit his 261st career home run, which surpassed New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter on the all-time list for shortstops. Where controversy arose was with the Mets' announcement that he now ranks fourth all-time in this category among players at his position.
This official list includes players who spent 60% of their career games at shortstop. But as many fans pointed out, both Alex Rodriguez and Ernie Banks have more career home runs than Lindor in games they played shortstop, which some feel should be the criteria for this list.
While this has been a topic of debate, even the Mets' official post on X received a community note that explained both Rodriguez and Banks hit more homers than Lindor while playing shortstop.
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"To clarify, Lindor has the 4th-most home runs all-time by a career primary shortstop (minimum 60% starts at the position)," the community note read. "Alex Rodriguez & Ernie Banks hit more homeruns at shortstop but do not meet the primary position criteria."
While New York's announcement was accurate by the primary position criteria, it has still been facing backlash from fans over that technicality.
"leaving the best shortstop of all time off this list is comedy, respect A-Rod," said one.
"I HATE to be that guy," one began. "But this isn't even close to being right. Cal is right, missing AROD and Banks. Hanley isn't top 5 either. What are we doing man?"
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"Ernie Banks?" one asked.
"Lmao take this down it's completely wrong," said another.
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12)© Lucas Boland-Imagn Images
Several other comments shared this opinion.
"You can't revise baseball history the way you do NBA history," said one. "History is a big component to the game of baseball."
"Yea, I am with you on this one. It makes more sense to only count HRs as a SS," replied another.
"That's an artificial made up threshold to satisfy the stat," claimed one. "It's HRs hit while playing the position."
Related: Mets Star Francisco Lindor Sends 7-Word Message Before Dodgers Game
Related: Shohei Ohtani Sends 6-Word Message After Sad News on Monday
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
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