Freddy Peralta, now with the Tampa Bay Rays, addresses questions about why his time with the New York Mets did not work out. In comments reported by multiple outlets, Peralta says he cannot identify a single root cause for his Mets results, but he rejects the explanation that the pressure of pitching in New York is what buried his performance.
The reports frame his remarks as an attempt to clarify his own assessment of the transition from the Mets to a new organization. While the specific “pressure in New York” theory is directly discounted, neither outlet provides evidence that Peralta’s current role, workload, coaching, or underlying mechanics are the only factor behind his earlier struggles. Instead, the focus is on his uncertainty about what went wrong in New York and his preference not to attribute it to location-based pressure alone.
Both sources present the same core point: Peralta is skeptical of a narrative that his Mets failure was primarily driven by external pressure, and he does not offer a definitive alternative explanation. The coverage highlights his fresh start with the Rays and his reluctance to simplify complex performance factors into a single storyline.
