Craig Carton

I'm sorry, pardon me, Lindor.

I think there's part of that.

And I wonder, and I said this on Saturday, we talked about it a little bit, the only way this becomes an issue, and I look a lot at the relationship, because whatever happened with the other guys, they're gone.

They're gone, right?

So now you're talking about this team and the relationships Lindor has with this team.

And right now Soto's going to be here for the next 14 years, 13 years.

And if those two don't get along and it forms some sort of click where he's trying to be the leader because he's the best player on the team, Soto, and he's going to be here for 13 years.

But Lindor is hanging on to the idea that he's been the leader over the last five or six.

And you start getting a division on who's following who and who's listening to who.

That could become an issue.

But I think we're making a little bit much of a mental gap from a leader of the team in the first inning, which is hard to explain, and now putting all the problems of an offense that hasn't hit because he's the bottom line.

I'm keeping it very focused.

This isn't a story if they win the game 7-1.

It's a story because they've lost two out of three.

And because every run is critical and every mistake is critical because the offense has gone in the toilet since the opening day.

And they can't score with runners in scoring position, and that's what they were supposed to do.

That's what they led us to believe this team was more than capable of and what they did on opening day against Paul Skeens.

And since then, nothing.

If they're 5-1 like the Yankees, if they're 4-2 after winning that game 7-1, we're less focused on Lindor's failures and Lindor's shortcomings and mistakes on the base paths or in the field, and we're talking about how they won the first two series of the year.

Losing is the problem.