Interviews from earlier this month had Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes 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 an interpreter on Monday. "The MVP thing, that's obviously a goal, but that's not really what I go out there in mind with."

"What I go out in mind with is helping the team win," Cespedes said. "The team comes first. I like to prepare and will continue to prepare as if it [the MVP] is one of my goals. But the team comes first, then [MVP]. If that comes, great. If not, so be it."

"We know we can win a World Series," he said.