10 Things NY Mets’ Francisco Lindor Can’t Live Without

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New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor joins GQ Sports to reveal his 10 Essentials. The Puerto Rican baseball star breaks down his daily essentials: from his baseball bat (“I probably use 35-50 bats in a year”) to perfume (“if I tell you something I’m wearing, I’m lying to you”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as Baseball shortstop Francisco Lindor reveals 10 things he can’t live without.

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00:00Hey, what's going on, everybody?

00:01I'm Francisco Lindor, and these are my 10 essentials.

00:03♪♪

00:08A bat is definitely an essential.

00:10It's part of my daily job, but it's not because of that.

00:15It's...well, it is because of that.

00:18There's a bat in every corner in my house,

00:20whether it's in my closet, my daughter's room,

00:23and it's just, I feel like taking swings,

00:26and it just puts me in that state of mind of, like,

00:29there's always something that I can improve on.

00:31I envision pictures. I'm big into visualizing it.

00:33I just grab my bat around the house,

00:36and I work on my mechanics, and just getting better.

00:39I probably use 35 to 50 bats in a year.

00:43Not that I break that many, but over time,

00:46you just get tired of looking at the same one

00:49that's all beat up.

00:50You just get a new one.

00:51That's the perks of playing in the big leagues.

00:54Every year, I choose one or two colors,

00:56and I stick with them throughout the whole year,

00:59and this year's gonna be the orange

01:01with the flame temper handle,

01:03and I think it's just clean, classy,

01:05but also screams Francisco Lindor.

01:12These are my Lindor 2s.

01:15Me being a sneakerhead,

01:16I have my own line with New Balance.

01:19I want to be able to wear mine on and off the field,

01:22not just in the batting cages.

01:23I want to go everywhere with them,

01:25so I put a basketball sole on them

01:28so I can transition from one place to a different one.

01:31Just wanted to make it more lifestyle.

01:33Here, it says be consistent,

01:35which is something my dad have always told me,

01:38and then staying positive.

01:40This is definitely one of my essentials.

01:44This is one of my favorite watches,

01:46FP Yarn Vertical Tourbillon.

01:48Made out of gold, it's something that's hard to do.

01:52Extremely elegant, subtle, understated,

01:55something that I could wear to a lot of different places,

01:58and people don't really know what it is,

02:00and I love that.

02:01My accessories, I want them to be subtle, clean, simple,

02:04to be able to wear them in different places

02:06around the world.

02:07So the one I'm wearing is a Super Sonare AP,

02:11which is also a fantastic watch.

02:14It's black on black,

02:15and one of the coolest things of this watch

02:18is I can make it shine.

02:20So it tells me the time, I don't have to look at it,

02:23and I know exactly what time it is.

02:30My bicycles, they don't fit here,

02:32and I didn't wanna travel with them,

02:34so I couldn't bring them.

02:36Everyone that's really close to me knows I love cycling.

02:40It's something I picked up since I was a little kid

02:43with my brother, he was the one that taught me

02:44how to ride a bike.

02:45To be able to go for three, four hours, no headphones,

02:49and just look at the road,

02:51it's something that brings peace to me.

02:53You know, I have my Pinarello F12 Orange,

02:57and then I have my F-Dogma Pinarello as well.

02:59I'm a Pinarello guy.

03:01I dress up, I think I'm a professional cyclist.

03:04I'm nowhere near them,

03:06because every time I'm three hours in the saddle,

03:09I'm questioning myself, why am I doing this?

03:12I don't ride in New York.

03:14I ride back home in Florida,

03:16where the streets are a little bit better than New York,

03:19and the drivers are not as crazy.

03:21This is a product that I recently found,

03:26the K18 product.

03:28Since I bleach my hair and I do colors

03:30and all that crazy stuff,

03:31this helps with my breakage of my curls.

03:34And then now that I'm braiding my hair a lot,

03:37oil is very essential, you know,

03:39to keep the scalp hydrated

03:41and to make sure you don't get a lot of dandruff.

03:44I break into hair, I care about hair.

03:46I think it's part of people's DNA.

03:49It's literally my roots,

03:51literally will come through my hair.

03:56People know me as Mr. Smile.

03:58Some people know me as that.

03:59Some people know me as Paquito.

04:01I tell my wife, with my daughters,

04:04these are non-negotiables in the house.

04:06This is part of the non-negotiables.

04:08We gotta brush our teeth morning and night.

04:10There's nothing better than a clean mouth, you know?

04:13When you start brushing and you finish

04:15and you go anywhere, you feel so much more confident

04:18when your mouth don't stink.

04:24Another big essential in my life is Oakley glasses.

04:27This past year, I've been rocking

04:29a lot of the old school metal frames.

04:31And this is the Juliette and this is the MagForce.

04:35Sunglasses make me feel some type of way.

04:38You know, it's like sometimes I put them on

04:41and then it's just like, don't talk to me,

04:43I'm in my own world.

04:46I used to have a joke with my daughter

04:46that when I put the sunglasses on, I'm Miguel,

04:50and when I take them off, I'm Francisco.

04:53So when I have glasses on, I'm Miguel, don't talk to me,

04:57I'm not Francisco, don't call me Lindor.

04:58Same thing with my daughter.

04:59My daughter says she puts the glasses, she's Zoe,

05:02and when she takes the glasses off, she's Kalina.

05:04So yeah, it just makes you feel some type of way.

05:10This ring, I have the matching ring with my wife.

05:15This part symbolizes half her heart.

05:17She has the other one, and then this is,

05:19she has the matching one, red ruby.

05:22I initially bought them to do earrings,

05:25and then I had the idea of creating a ring

05:27that we can both have and match.

05:30This symbolizes the same thing.

05:32This is my Pola, my daughter, this is her birthstone,

05:35and I have different ones that I use.

05:37Once I got married, I started using the rings,

05:39and everything else, it just became more like accessories,

05:42like I'm big into accessories.

05:45Same thing with the necklace.

05:48The necklace symbolizes my family,

05:50the different color schemes I have, different birthstones.

05:53It has hearts, it's got squares, it's got circles.

05:56It symbolizes how life to me is,

05:58that not everything's the same, not everyone's the same,

06:01but you gotta treat them the same

06:03with the same amount of respect.

06:04This was made by Material Goods,

06:07close friends over there, Yoni, and he helped me with this.

06:10And somebody I look up to, Pharrell,

06:12he has something similar.

06:13Styles usually come from somebody,

06:16whether it was back in the 80s, or the 70s,

06:18or 90s, whatever era, you always look at people,

06:21and from there, you try to get something from that era,

06:24and you try to bring it back,

06:25and that's kinda how I do with my style.

06:30Perfume is very important.

06:31I feel like you don't wanna smell bad.

06:33I think it started with my mom growing up.

06:35She always had something spraying on herself,

06:38or in the car, or me, when I come up,

06:40I don't know, basal feel, and I smell.

06:42She was just spraying something on me.

06:44It just makes you feel fresh, and yeah,

06:50this is a good one.

06:52This is not the one that should be worn today,

06:55but I always lie.

06:57Whenever somebody asks me what I'm wearing, I lie.

07:00So if I tell you something that I'm wearing, it's not that.

07:04I'm lying to you.

07:05Just know that I'm lying to you,

07:07because I don't want you to smell like me.

07:08I might tell you three different things,

07:10and you're gonna go, and you're gonna grab them,

07:13you're gonna put them on,

07:13and you will never smell like me,

07:15because I will never give you what I'm wearing that day.

07:17Thank you, GQ, for watching.

07:19I appreciate it.

07:20I hope you guys liked it.

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