These Are The On a regular basis Cars Mets Players Drive

Meet the Mets! Meet the Mets! A pair weeks back, we checked out the surprisingly boring cars owned by current Yankees players, and now we have got footage of Mets players leaving Citi Field to prove which is the superior Recent York team. It is the Mets, in fact, but I’m not only saying that because I’m a Brooklyn resident with a Mets hat on my bedside table and a City Connect jersey in my closet — I’m also saying it because Mets players drive more interesting cars than those fancy American League players up within the Bronx. 

Instagram user baseball_kam99, who previously captured those Yankees players driving away from Yankee Stadium, also posted the Mets version of the player exit reel. It features pitchers Edwin Diaz and Clay Holmes, first baseman Pete Alonso, shortstop Francisco Lindor, and right fielder Juan Soto — presumably, all other players simply hopped on the 7 train to move home. We can have a subway series coming up this weekend, however the Mets have already won the automotive series. Let us take a look at what they won with. 

Edwin Diaz left Citi Field behind the wheel of a facelifted Lincoln Aviator, which suggests the automotive cannot be all that old. It isn’t a performance monster, however the Aviator is a good-looking vehicle for its segment — I’m a sucker for daytime running lights that poke into the middle of a automotive’s front end like that, the best way they do on the A90 Toyota Supra. 

Diaz’s Aviator is boring old black, which does dock the pitcher some points for not picking Lincoln’s weird muted blue-green hue, but at the least the dark shade makes the crossover’s vivid accents pop all of the more. It also makes the Aviator lettering down the side of the front fender more legible on a compressed Instagram video, which was immensely helpful in determining Diaz drove an Aviator or a Nautilus. They only look so similar on a vertical video, with half the screen taken up by a headshot. 

Pete Alonso, nevertheless, gets full points on color. His Range Rover is within the press color, that warm pale beige that nearly fades entirely to silver under direct light. I imagine a color like that’s absolute hell to maintain clean, but Alonso seems to administer — his automotive is sparkling within the Instagram clip. 

Seeing Alonso within the Range Rover really sells just how big the present generation of the crossover is. The primary baseman is 6’3″, however the Range Rover absolutely dwarfs him. He looks small inside, hidden behind that tall beltline and tucked away within the width of the inside. The Range Rover just looks downright cavernous, even with such a tall person in the driving force’s seat. It makes one wonder what that SUV must appear to be when someone of average height is sitting in it, or how high you’d have to position the seat simply to see out the edges properly. How do normal people look out the window before opening the door in a decent spot to make sure they don’t seem to be hitting anything?

Y’know what not one of the Yankees had of their Instagram reel? An EV! Francisco Lindor does, though, because he cares in regards to the future. Or perhaps simply because it’s cool-looking and smooth to drive. That is also a possibility, but I’ll keep believing that Lindor went for the electrical Escalade out of a desire to do right by the planet. A drop within the bucket that’s Queens, sure, but higher than nothing. 

It’s kind of tough to inform within the clip, but evidently Lindor’s Escalade IQ is finished up in Cadillac’s Sandstone color. It’s kind of more interesting than a plain white, with some added depth and heat, however it’s still pretty near that base shade — close enough that this will well be Vibrant White Tricoat. I’d imagine either one, and I also imagine that Instagram video compression is deeply frustrating.

It’s admittedly a bit of bit unclear whether the satin black Escalade-V within the clip actually belongs to Juan Soto or not, given the note within the video that “He wasn’t driving,” but a high-output Escalade actually appears to be a “famous athlete” kind of vehicle. Soto’s Escalade predates the narrow-eye facelift the SUV got last yr, so it is not as latest as among the others within the Citi Field car parking zone, but I’ve at all times been a fan of the pre-facelift aesthetic with the broader headlights. 

The satin black exterior, though, I’m pointedly not a fan of. Even in a brief, compressed video, Soto’s Escalade looks visibly smudged. Satin finishes are not possible to maintain smooth and clean — if a baseball player under the most costly contract in sports history cannot keep smudges off his automotive, nobody can. The limo tint, too, gets a thumbs down from me. Recent York is well-lit at night, sure, but even town that never sleeps gets too dark for windows like that. 

Clay Holmes, a fresh convert to the Mets after years on the Yankees, drives perhaps essentially the most pedestrian automotive of the bunch: A Mercedes-Benz GLE. It isn’t clear exactly which trim level he has, however it’s not an AMG — though it does have the AMG Line appearance package. This can be a automotive that might’ve fit right in with the remainder of the Yankees up within the Bronx, but down at Citi Field it appears like an understated alternative. Holmes is under a three-year contract, though, so there’s still time to get him into something more interesting. 

In truth, Clay, in case you need advice on what to get, be happy to ask. Write in to What Automotive Should You Buy, and the Recent York Jalops will get you sorted with a automotive befitting your station. Just be warned, the opposite two of us here in town are Yankees fans — their taste cannot at all times be trusted.