Mets’ Francisco Lindor’s wife blasts husband's former teammate on comments about team’s lack of leadership

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The New York Mets have struggled early on, and a former big leaguer says he knows why.

"All of those veterans and no leadership," Jason Kipnis said earlier this week on "Foul Territory."

When one of the hosts of the show, fellow former big leaguer A.J. Pierzynski, asked whether Kipnis' former Cleveland teammate Francisco Lindor, the Mets' star shortstop, was a leader, Kipnis doubled down.

"I’m gonna repeat it again. All those veterans and no leadership," he said. "If everybody is a veteran there, you’re kinda just under the assumption that everybody is taking care of their business and going about the things the right way."

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Francisco Lindor, left, and Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians celebrate defeating the Minnesota Twins after a game Sept. 6, 2019, at Target Field in Minneapolis. (Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

Lindor was made aware of Kipnis' comments Friday and kept his opinions to himself.

"I haven't talked to him. That's how he feels. It is what it is. I don't really have much to say," Lindor said.

Lindor's wife had a lot to say.

"My husband is such a classy person, would never say what a bully Kipnis was in the clubhouse. Sounds like a true leader versus the opposite of a leader," Katia Lindor tweeted Friday.

Kipnis and Lindor manned the middle infield in Cleveland together from 2015 to 2019, making the 2016 World Series and helping set an American League record of 22 consecutive wins in 2017.

Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets hits a grand slam against the Oakland Athletics in the top of the second inning at RingCentral Coliseum April 14, 2023, in Oakland, Calif.