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Speaker 1: Season to do list for the Mets draftneck Mark been

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Speaker 1: in the game for a long time. Check out the

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel if you don't already, but then also Mets up.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Mets specifically here Mark, good to

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Speaker 1: see you, my friend, and lay out the off season

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Speaker 1: to do list. What's one, two, and three for the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me on. Guys, excited to talk

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Speaker 2: about the Mets. Kind of cheat a little bit. I

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Speaker 2: put number one as resigned Pete Alonzo and Edwin Diaz.

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Speaker 2: Number two trade for an a starting pitcher. Number three

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Speaker 2: we got to find an outfield or whether it's in

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's dive into each of these. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to start with the heartbreaker question at the top

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Speaker 1: because Buck Showalter, former manager of the Mets, recently asked

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Speaker 1: us yesterday this question when he was a guest on

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Speaker 1: the show. Mark, you can only keep Pete Alonso or

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Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz. Forget about the money, right, Let's say Pete

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Speaker 1: is getting one twenty and Diaz is getting ninety five whatever, Right,

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Speaker 1: the money shouldn't matter a ton when you're thinking about

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Speaker 1: this team. You can only pick one, Which one do

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Speaker 1: you need for next year?

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Speaker 2: I think it's pet Alonso as much as Edwin Diaz

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Speaker 2: is arguably the best closer in baseball. I think you

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Speaker 2: can still build a strong bullpen without having the best

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Speaker 2: closer in baseball where it's really tough to find the

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Speaker 2: offensive production that Pete Alonso has at the first base position.

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Speaker 2: I know, defensively he's got his shortcomings, but thirty five

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Speaker 2: nine hundred, driving in one hundred and ten hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty runs a season, what Pete brings to the plate,

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Speaker 2: it's really difficult to find in baseball, and you usually

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Speaker 2: have to pay a lot so to be able to

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Speaker 2: I just I don't know how the Mets would really

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to that point, do they have an internal option

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Speaker 3: if Pete doesn't come back? And what's kind of the

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Speaker 3: knock around Pete Alonzo. All he's ever done has been

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Speaker 3: a productive first baseman. He gets forty homers, drives in

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Speaker 3: a home one hundred RBIs every year, He's a multiple

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Speaker 3: home run derby champion. He loves the city of New York.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you were listening earlier, he has no

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Speaker 3: kind of there's no negativity when it comes to him

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Speaker 3: I love Pete, but it feels like, what's the knock

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Speaker 3: and giving him what he you know, kind of deserves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for Mets fans they would agree with

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Speaker 2: no matter what it takes. But I think from the

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Speaker 2: the value might not be there for a guy who's

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Speaker 2: ultimately going to end up becoming a DH because his

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Speaker 2: But there is an easy fix there. The problem for

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Speaker 2: look at OAA, that's where he loses all his defensive value.

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Speaker 2: And that's really from Pete being very aggressive at the position,

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Speaker 2: one knock I'd have on him. I think Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 3: Should have got should have went out and got Ron

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna be on the trade market more.

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Speaker 4: Nemo he gone outfield. They need another outfielder. Man, what

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Speaker 4: do you think they're going to do with that situation

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really excited, really excited for Carson Benge. And I

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Speaker 2: But benj is someone who's a top ten maybe at

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Speaker 2: Flew through the system last year out of Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 2: Looks really really promising, and it looks like he can

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Speaker 2: they go with Cody Bellinger in the corner. He's a

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Speaker 2: him to in a pinch, but he's great in left field,

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Speaker 2: you could dh Pete some days put Cody Bellinger at

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Speaker 4: So give me your start now field, right now, if

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be Cody Bellinger in left. I

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Speaker 4: So my boy, Jeff McNeill, I haven't heard a word

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just don't think he can mash. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I like Jeff as a player. I've been banging the

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Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil drum a little bit harder than some Mets fans,

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Speaker 2: but does feel like with the acquisition of Simeon, with

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Speaker 2: because mcnil's played great second base and outfield as well

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Speaker 2: seems like this organization might be moving on from him,

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Speaker 5: Me, I'm a fan of Jeff.

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Speaker 2: We've been very friendly in the past, but I think

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Speaker 3: Speaking of platoons third base Mark Fianto's Brett Baty, I

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Speaker 3: don't see a scenario where you can have him both.

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Speaker 3: I think you got to allow one to play one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in a perfect world they would love

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Speaker 2: even with Pete Alonso on it, and that's being a

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to take this to a conversation that

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Speaker 1: actually we just covered makeup, clubhouse chemistry, all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. A lot of times it can get pretty overblown.

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Speaker 1: I thought you guys did a great job covering the

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Speaker 1: New York Post article the other day. I listened to

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Speaker 1: that when I texted you guys about it, we talked

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Speaker 1: dialed in on the team on an everyday basis, Like

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Speaker 1: lind Orn, So, I don't care if one loves one color,

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Speaker 1: I don't give a crap. Right, they both put up

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Speaker 1: great numbers. That's not the reason why the Mets didn't

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs this year. And buckshow Artler I'll allude

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Speaker 1: to again, was on yesterday we asked him about it.

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Speaker 1: He's like, they didn't make the playoffs because they didn't

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Speaker 1: You know, have you guys ever done an episode by

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Speaker 5: It's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys for letting me on. You could

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Speaker 2: follow the Mets Stuff podcast over on YouTube. We're on

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Speaker 2: all social media talking about the Mets offseason every single

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Speaker 2: time there's any bit of news and uh, you can

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Speaker 2: check me out Draftneckmark too if you want to hear

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Speaker 2: more baseball. Appreciate you guys for coming on. Kevin, nice

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Speaker 2: to meet you, Todd. Thanks guys,