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New York dishes were 45-24 at a time and had the best record in baseball, but finished the season at 83-79 and missed the playoffs.
The MVP of the American League, Mo Vaughn, discussed with PK Press Club Digital of the collapse of the dishes and the place where it went wrong. Vaughn explained how the series of the National League of the Team League is taking place in 2024 could have played a factor.
“They went as far as the league championship series last year. They knew how to do it. They knew how to get there. And what is going on is that you spend a lot of energy at this point. Now you are reset. You have another season, but you are not so sharp,” Vianghi told PK Press Club.
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Pete Alonso de New York Mets brings his belongings into the canoe after the dishes lost against the Miami Marlins in a baseball match in Miami, Florida, September 28, 2025. (AP photo / Lynne Sladky)
“You are not also on the point, you are not as special because it just takes this concentration. You know, if you have the opportunity to get there, you will turn it on.
If the dishes had won only one match, they would have had a better record than the Reds of Cincinnati and made the playoffs. Vaughn said that the dishes did not have the “refined concentration” to get there.
“They only have to recognize themselves, to reconfigure their brains,” said Vaughn. “And it is not that you do not take it seriously. I want fans to understand. It is not as if someone was of Sucelgag or that anyone who was not harder. He just needed this refined concentration to go to the playoffs.”
Vaughn said dishes will have new mentality for spring training next season.
“I think that now what will happen is that they will go back to spring training. And they had this year when they did not arrive. They will think about the year they have succeeded, and now they will face everything that matters,” said Vaughn.
“When all counts, that’s when you get the best baseball that is played. But they will learn it, they will get there. They are too talented. They have too many guys. They have too many guys who know how to play.”
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Pete Alonso from New York Mets, on the left, is held with Francisco Lindor after flying with the bases loaded during the fifth round of a baseball match against the Marlins of Miami in Miami, Florida, September 28, 2025. (AP photo / Lynne Sladky)
Vaughn also praised Juan Soto for having had a first “brilliant” season with the food.
“There is a lot of media threshing to be the best paid player. You had all the yankee dishes. Why did he go, where did he go? Did he stay?
Vaughn mentioned how it would have been a while for Soto to adjust at the beginning of the year.
“You like a little in a small fog, you do not know where you are. But once he set foot on the ground, he was the best guy there. So he went out and had one, you know, had one, there were 40 circuits, 30 stolen, 30 stolen bases, a hundred walks, a hundred RBI.”
In 160 games, Soto had an average of the stick of .283 with 43 circuits, 105 products produced and 38 stolen bases, which led the National League. Soto’s basic percentage of 0.396 also led the National League.
The former Red Sox Mo Vaughn player goes to the launcher’s mound before the first ceremonial throw on the day of opening in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2022. All players wear (42) in honor of Jackie Robinson Day. (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)
Unfortunately for the dishes, it was not enough to propel them into the playoffs.
Vaughn played in major leagues for 12 seasons. He spent eight with the Boston Red Sox, two with the Angels then Anaheim and two with the dishes.
Triple All-Star had an average of the stick of .293 with 328 circuits and 1,064 products produced. He has a podcast entitled “The Mo Vaughn Podcast”, which made his debut in August. He interviewed the former MLB commissioner, Bud Selig, six times All-Star Kenny Lofton and many other former players.
