PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) — New York Mets cleanup hitter Yoenis Cespedes was glad to come clean: He wants the ring.
Sure, an MVP trophy would be great. But winning a World Series championship would be better.
Interviews from earlier this month had the Cuban slugger angling for the MVP as his primary goal. That’s not his focus, he said.
“I want to clear that up because I know that was mentioned from a few interviews,” Cespedes said through a translator Monday. “The MVP thing, that’s obviously a goal, but that’s not really what I go out there in mind with.