Francisco Lindor’s ‘Café con Lindor’ returns for Season 2

Francisco Lindor’s Café con Lindor is back for a second season, premiering Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 12 p.m. ET with Puerto Rican Latin music star Eladio Carrión as the first guest.

The New York Mets shortstop and Major League Baseball launched the monthly content series in July 2025 as the baseball-flavored answer to Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, with Lindor interviewing guests about their lives and careers in local cafes.

“For me, Café con Lindor, it’s about the circle you create,” Lindor is quoted as saying in the pilot episode. “Coffee is an amazing time to have conversations, to just talk about anything, to be quite honest. It just brings people together. It makes that circle tighter.”

Set in local coffee shops around the country, the series has since brought in Action Bronson, Donovan Mitchell, rapper and musician Young Miko, and fashion designer KidSuper as guests across its first season, with each episode built around Lindor’s own love of coffee and conversation rather than a traditional interview format.

Season 2’s premiere with Eladio Carrión was filmed at Win Son in Brooklyn. In it, Lindor and Carrión have a spirited debate over which demands more, launching a baseball into the stands or commanding a stage in front of thousands, with Carrión insisting athletes shoulder the heavier burden. They also trade formative anecdotes from opposite corners of stardom, with Lindor recounting a childhood budget of $3 a day for school snacks, along with Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s grandmother cooking for the entire team back in their earlier playing days. Carrión, in turn, gets Lindor to break down an important hitting drill, while teasing that Lindor and Mookie Betts will get a namedrop in an upcoming song.

“We’re thrilled to bring back Café con Lindor for its second season, MLB vice president of player engagement and celebrity relations EJ Aguado said in a statement to Awful Announcing. “Partnering with Francisco, an incredible partner and phenomenal host, to help bring his vision to life has been a pleasure and a clear success. Season 1 generated 30M social views and 750K engagements across 4 episodes, demonstrating the strong appetite fans have for authentic, cross-cultural content that connects them with our athletes. This project is a reflection of our continuous effort to help our players build meaningful platforms off the field, while giving fans new ways to connect with them and their stories. We can’t wait for our fans to see what’s in store for season 2.”

Season 2’s episode count and full guest list haven’t been revealed, though MLB has billed the season as bringing in A-list names spanning sports, fashion, music, and business, continuing the format’s focus on the overlap between those worlds.

Between offseason elbow surgery, a broken hamate bone that required surgery — which cost him the opportunity to represent Puerto Rico at the World Baseball Classic — and a severe calf strain that sidelined him for more than two months, Lindor’s age-32 season has been anything but a walk in the park, or in this instance, a leisurely cup of coffee.

Coming into Wednesday, Lindor was slashing .243/.330/.437 with a .767 OPS. He has just 11 home runs and 30 RBIs in 279 plate appearances. And while the physical toll on his body offers a reasonable explanation for both his and the Mets’ shortcomings in 2026, public sentiment has begun curdling against the very man who single-handedly willed New York to a 2024 NLCS appearance.

But there’s still a human being underneath all the clamor, one Major League Baseball has been rying to introduce fans to in two different forums, whether it’s an MLB Network documentary tracing his path from leaving Puerto Rico for Montverde Academy at 12 years old, barely speaking English, all the way through his current stardom in New York, or the far lighter touch of Café con Lindor over a cafecito with a Latin chart-topping guest.