CINCINNATI — Wilson Ramos knows the score.
Not only the final results of the games he checks on daily to gauge the Mets’ NL wild-card chances, but also that if Noah Syndergaard has a preference throwing to catchers other than him it would be counterproductive to hold a grudge toward the right-hander.
“It’s not like I would be mad with my teammate or that situation,” Ramos told The Post before the Mets faced the Reds on Friday night. “I’m a professional and I love my job and I love what I’m doing, but sometimes you feel good pitching to this guy or that guy. That has happened before.”
Ramos was on the bench Wednesday at Colorado as manager Mickey Callaway placated Syndergaard by inserting Rene Rivera as the starting catcher. Syndergaard still struggled, allowing four earned runs over 5 ²/₃ innings in a game the Mets rallied to win in the ninth inning.
It closely mirrored Syndergaard’s previous two starts — with Ramos behind the plate — in which he allowed four earned runs over five innings.
Ramos said he hasn’t been informed if he will catch Syndergaard’s next scheduled start, Tuesday against the Marlins, but he will continue to support Callaway’s decisions.
“You don’t feel happy sometimes with that situation, but it happened and it is what it is,” Ramos said. “I’m here to help and here to win.”
Callaway was non-committal when asked if he would use a catcher other than Ramos for Syndergaard’s next start. The manager was so wed to Rivera on Wednesday he allowed the light-hitting catcher to bat in the sixth with the bases loaded and two outs in a game the Mets trailed by one run. Doing so allowed Rivera to remain in the game to catch Syndergaard in the sixth.
“Using players’ feedback, if it’s important to them it has to be factored in,” Callaway said, referring to Syndergaard. “So we’ll always factor those type of things in and we’ll always try to make decisions on who plays based on some of that and other things. If it’s important to the player it is going to be impactful in some degree, it’s just trying to figure out what the degree is.”
Ramos generally has not started more than four straight days, so based on that equation, Rivera or Tomas Nido could be behind the plate Tuesday for Syndergaard. But that’s also assuming Callaway doesn’t insert either backup to start before that.
Ramos is signed through next season, leaving it likely he will have to work with Syndergaard in 2020, provided the pitcher isn’t traded this winter. Ramos’ expectation is his working relationship with Syndergaard will improve, as he says it has with the other members of the Mets’ rotation.
“Right now I feel happy with all those guys, they have been throwing really good, the communication is really better than the beginning of the season,” Ramos said. “That made me very happy because next year I will feel closer to them, so right now we are showing everybody out there our communication is very good, so that will help us for next year be on the same page.”
The Mets began Friday trailing the Brewers by 3 ½ games for the second wild card, and that is where Ramos’ attention lies at the moment.
“Every day I get into my phone and look at all the games and see who won and loss and how close we are,” Ramos said. “It’s not easy to be in this position right now, but we’re still there. We need to play good baseball right now.”
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