Mets' Luis Rojas on Steve Cohen's criticism: 'We all gotta be held accountable'

It's been less than two full weeks since a report emerged that New York Mets manager Luis Rojas was not in danger of losing his job even though his club had fallen from first to third place in the National League East standings. Things have only gotten worse for the Amazins since, as they've recently lost five straight games and, per ESPN stats, have scored the third-fewest runs (450) of any team this season. 

Mets owner Steve Cohen raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he took to Twitter to voice his displeasure over the team's lack of offensive production. "It’s hard to understand how professional hitters can be this unproductive," he tweeted. "The best teams have a more disciplined approach. The slugging and OPS numbers don’t lie." 

According to Danny Abriano of SNY, Rojas told reporters ahead of Wednesday's matchup at the San Francisco Giants that he hadn't spoken with Cohen about the tweet and added "there's no panic button here" even though the Mets have fallen to 59-60 and are four-and-a-half games behind the first-place Atlanta Braves in the division standings. 

"We all gotta be held accountable for the team's performance," Rojas said. "And I think the players are very vulnerable. They come here and say that they're frustrated. Some of them feel that they're underperforming and they're working really hard. We're all in this, so it doesn't single out one player, it doesn't single out one coach. At the end of the day, we gotta win games.

"Some areas right now are performing better than others, but we're all being held accountable for the team's performance at the end of the day. We don't feel like a single person is being attacked. We're all being accountable here. We just feel like we gotta work, be cross-functional, give ideas and think of different things so we can find the approach that we know that we can do and we've been working hard to get to." 

It's likely too late into the campaign for the Mets to make any managerial change, but Rojas' seat will only get warmer if his club continues to fall further back in the standings before Labor Day weekend.