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Speaker 1: On this episode of the Mets Up Podcast, we go

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Speaker 1: over all the huge free agent moves from the Mets

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Speaker 1: over the past week, plus a full breakdown of our

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Speaker 1: new starting picture of Code I Sanga.

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Speaker 2: Could we be moving to a six man rotation? We're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about it, it might make sense. And did we

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Speaker 2: mention Brandon Nimo is back?

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Speaker 1: He's a Met for life.

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Speaker 2: This and so much more on the next episode of

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Speaker 2: the Mets Up Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Get Up, Get Up? What's Up? Mets fans?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of the Mets Up Podcast,

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Speaker 2: Episode number one fifty three.

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Speaker 1: We have so much to talk about.

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Speaker 2: In today's episode, you know, all the big moves that

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Speaker 2: the Mets have made, Brandon neimojse A Kingtan, David Robertson,

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Speaker 2: and Code I Sango. We're gonna talk about everything that

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Speaker 2: has gone on in the Mets world in the past week,

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Speaker 2: So make sure you guys stick around and listen. Of course,

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Speaker 2: if you're enjoying everything that you're seeing listening, whatever it is,

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Speaker 2: drop us a review, download and subscribe. James, how you doing, man,

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Speaker 2: it's bit a minute since we last spoke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm doing great. We just saw one

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Speaker 1: of the most unbelievable weeks of free agency in the

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Speaker 1: history of the team we both root for and podcasts for.

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Speaker 1: So I think it was a pretty good week overall.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Steve Cone seems to be changing the game a

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Speaker 2: little bit with how free agency is moving, because I mean,

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Speaker 2: you talked about a record breaking or a historic week

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Speaker 2: in terms of Mets free agency, just in terms of

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Speaker 2: baseball free agency, it felt like it was a pretty

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Speaker 2: unbelievable week in terms of the moves and the signings

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Speaker 2: and the trades that have been going on.

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Speaker 1: I knew things were different because I was heading out

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night. I'd just gotten off a train and

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Speaker 1: my friend and I were just going to the Delhi

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Speaker 1: podega again a sandwich, you know, get a drink and

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Speaker 1: ready for an evening, and I took out my phone

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Speaker 1: to start texting just in the middle of the store,

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Speaker 1: and the guy behind the grill just saw my phone

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Speaker 1: and he thought that the Mets up sticker was just

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Speaker 1: talk to my friend. Talk to my friend. He never

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Speaker 1: stopped talking about the Mets, and we taught me and

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Speaker 1: this random guy worked the counter at this deli. We

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Speaker 1: talked about the Mets for like twenty five minutes. My

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Speaker 1: friend was like, we have to leave. What are you

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Speaker 1: that had this was even before the Sanga signing, because

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Speaker 1: that was of course very late Saturday night, So you

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Speaker 1: just kind of felt like something different was in the

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Speaker 1: air after the last week in the Mets world, and

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Speaker 1: it was cool to see, like just see the feel

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Speaker 1: the energy at the time when baseball energies usually at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like the way to describe it, there's

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Speaker 2: a buzz. There's quite the buzz going on. Like we've

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Speaker 2: seen a lot of moves by other teams being made,

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Speaker 2: but the Mets are stealing a lot of headlines too,

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Speaker 2: Like the Brandon Nemo signing was awesome and will dive

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Speaker 1: He wanted to come and be with the Mets.

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Speaker 2: Like that's awesome to hear that stuff that in years

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Speaker 1: With players, we get David Robertson.

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Speaker 2: Who's a guy that a lot of fans really wanted

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Speaker 2: last year at the trade deadline, we bring in home

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Speaker 2: love what's going on. I love that we're spending money.

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Speaker 2: that's what we got. But the Mets are looking to

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Speaker 1: And I love that We've talked so much about the

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Speaker 1: it's it's shocking how many players this team has been

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Speaker 1: proud that we here with this organization, who has is

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Speaker 1: This is unbelievable. It's it's just a warm feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I means, let's talk about Code I Sanga first,

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Speaker 2: because I feel like, out of all the moves that

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Speaker 2: gonna say ninety nine point nine percent of Mets fans

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Speaker 2: you're not getting a lot of Code I Sang yet.

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Speaker 1: And we did break him down.

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Speaker 2: A little bit earlier when we were talking about our

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Speaker 1: Look like highway robbery in a case. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: Cubs last week. And while the Rodriguez I believe was

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Speaker 1: four for sixty with the Tigers last year. And you

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Speaker 1: while all the pictures we've mentioned probably have something that's

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Speaker 1: so all these other guys have very good pitches, but

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Speaker 2: Like ghostball is such a cool nickname for a pitch

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Speaker 2: that's so dope. Like I'm I'm so excited, it's so

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Speaker 1: And also just having a picture come over from the

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Speaker 1: But he's still throwing a ninety five ninety six ninety

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Speaker 1: It's not really a that's not really a pitch velosity

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Speaker 1: those guys, John Gray, McCullers at BARALDA. Rodriguez. Those are

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Speaker 1: that's incredible. And just at fifteen million dollars, if he

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Speaker 1: worth it. And then if you're able to actually hit

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Speaker 1: that upside. He's a guy who's been to drive Line

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Speaker 1: this winter. He said he really wanted to come to

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Speaker 1: the mess we're able to tell him. This guy really

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Speaker 1: could keep getting better, and that's kind of the best

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Speaker 2: He's a guy who looks like he wants to get

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Speaker 2: better too, Like you said, with all that data and

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Speaker 2: Japanese baseball. I don't want to say is like behind

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Speaker 1: You don't really see these big arms.

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Speaker 2: fact that he's like, no, I want to be a

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Speaker 2: better pitcher. We talked about with Verlander last episode being

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Speaker 2: that level as well, which is so refreshing, so awesome

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Speaker 2: to see because you know he had great success in

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Speaker 1: guy like high threes, low four z Ra. Yeah, similar

433
00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,040
Speaker 1: to what we've said about Carrasco, and he's just gonna

434
00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,160
Speaker 1: give you winnings. The Mets lost nine hundred innings from

435
00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,680
Speaker 1: their team when this offseason began, and Cantana is a

436
00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,720
Speaker 1: huge step to getting them back one hundred percent.

437
00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,440
Speaker 2: I also think it's really funny too that in terms

438
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,400
Speaker 2: of you know, the pitching, let's go to the bullpen side.

439
00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,680
Speaker 2: Now that David Robertson, the guy who Mets fans had

440
00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,080
Speaker 2: been screaming and moaning and going absolutely crazy about, finds

441
00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,720
Speaker 2: his way back to New York, this time with the

442
00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,960
Speaker 2: Mets on a one year, ten million dollar deal. I mean,

443
00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,640
Speaker 2: same ni moment as Nimo, Like Nimo happened, then David

444
00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,760
Speaker 2: Robertson happened all within like five minutes, which was really cool,

445
00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,400
Speaker 2: and I feel like, I mean, we know that Robertson's good.

446
00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,199
Speaker 2: We talked about him. He was a guy that we'd considered,

447
00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,320
Speaker 2: we wanted last year during the trade deadline.

448
00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:29,720
Speaker 1: We didn't want to give up something crazy.

449
00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,480
Speaker 2: But we kind of got the best of both worlds

450
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,160
Speaker 2: here because now we got him and we didn't give

451
00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,560
Speaker 2: anything up, which I think is also showing how the

452
00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,119
Speaker 2: Mets are thinking too. Mets still haven't given up like

453
00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,480
Speaker 2: any prospects really besides Peter crow Armstrong that one time.

454
00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely seems like that was a big priority

455
00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,760
Speaker 1: for this team. And also I think with Robertson, I

456
00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,359
Speaker 1: think it's very obvious now that they wanted someone with

457
00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,159
Speaker 1: a one year commitment. I didn't want to put that

458
00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,399
Speaker 1: bunch money on the books years past this because we

459
00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,560
Speaker 1: still are looking at two guys who were great for

460
00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,360
Speaker 1: this team last year, Seth Lugo and Adam and Vino

461
00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,000
Speaker 1: still sitting there on the free agent Mark as well

462
00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,840
Speaker 1: a lot of other pretty talented believers. But the fact

463
00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,159
Speaker 1: that you could probably get Robinson. I think he's a

464
00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,200
Speaker 1: thirty seven or thirty eight years old at this point.

465
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,200
Speaker 1: He's old. He was even just out of baseball what

466
00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:07,040
Speaker 1: like two years ago.

467
00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,320
Speaker 2: I was about to bring that up that he was

468
00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,159
Speaker 2: a guy who at one point thought his career was

469
00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,040
Speaker 2: kind of over and just kind of floating around trying

470
00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,080
Speaker 2: to find that next team. The Rays got a hold

471
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Speaker 2: of him, We're like, hold on, wait a second, will

472
00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,159
Speaker 2: fix you where the Rays? And now his career has

473
00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,160
Speaker 2: continued on to be great.

474
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 1: This guy was pitching in the Olympics in twenty twenty one.

475
00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,200
Speaker 1: Think about that. That's so crazy, the Olympics. These guy

476
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,280
Speaker 1: was pitching the Olympics that I was making ten million dollars.

477
00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 1: And the biggest thing about David Robinson coming this team

478
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,879
Speaker 1: is that he still has a super elite pitch, and

479
00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:35,639
Speaker 1: that's a knuckle curve that's always been a bread and

480
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,679
Speaker 1: butther since those early days, way back when he was

481
00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,520
Speaker 1: with the Yankees with his really high socks and those

482
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,040
Speaker 1: those thick, busting calves. But he also has a good

483
00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,360
Speaker 1: color that I think is the pitch that has come

484
00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,320
Speaker 1: on later I'll double check right now, and a slider

485
00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 1: that gets by, and him having three pitches coming out

486
00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,880
Speaker 1: of that spot in the bullpen, something that we saw

487
00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,760
Speaker 1: Said Lugo used last year. It's a really, really, really

488
00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,360
Speaker 1: good measure for a guy wh can get hitters out

489
00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,000
Speaker 1: on both sides of the plate. We all know how

490
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,880
Speaker 1: important that is now is a three battered minimum rule.

491
00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,840
Speaker 1: David Roberson getting out hitters on both sides of the

492
00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 1: play late in games. He's gonna be a massive part

493
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,480
Speaker 1: of the Mets success this year, one hundred percent.

494
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,320
Speaker 2: He definitely seems like he's gonna slot into that set

495
00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,760
Speaker 2: up eighthitning role pretty nicely. He was closing big games

496
00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 2: in the World Series. So if there was ever a

497
00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,840
Speaker 2: question of whether or not the guy can handle a

498
00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,800
Speaker 2: big moment, I think that's pretty pretty obvious what the

499
00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:16,480
Speaker 2: answer is gonna be.

500
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Speaker 1: He seems like.

501
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 2: He's ready, and he's pitched in New York before. I

502
00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,760
Speaker 2: think that's also really big too, because a lot of times,

503
00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,159
Speaker 2: I mean we saw it with Edwin Dias in his

504
00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,800
Speaker 2: first year. Pitching in New York isn't easy, especially in

505
00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 2: high pressure games. Like Edwin Diaz was pitching in games

506
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,080
Speaker 2: and the Mets were out of it ed people were

507
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,520
Speaker 2: losing their mind. Now the Mets are in it. The

508
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 2: pressure is on, but I think David Robertson's totally ready

509
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:34,080
Speaker 2: for it.

510
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,200
Speaker 1: I was wrong about the color. Dave always had, the

511
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 1: colors always been his most thrown pitched. The difference is

512
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,840
Speaker 1: that he's started throwing the slider few years ago and

513
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,240
Speaker 1: last year was throwing the slyly in the curveball more

514
00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 1: than years past. Okay, okay, got it, got it. Yeah,

515
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean he looked good.

516
00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,040
Speaker 2: He looked good, and obviously bullpenorms. We want him, we

517
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,879
Speaker 2: need him bring more in and the Mets seem to

518
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 2: be doing that. And then the last big move to

519
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,960
Speaker 2: talk about here is gonna be the Brandon Nemo one,

520
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 2: which hallelujah, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

521
00:19:59,400 --> 00:19:59,440
Speaker 3: You.

522
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,199
Speaker 2: Guys, if you've been listening to us, you know that

523
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 2: both me and James were like, number one guy the

524
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,359
Speaker 2: mess need to bring back this offseason, Brandon Neimo. You

525
00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 2: have to bring back Neimo, and they did on an

526
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,600
Speaker 2: eight year, one hundred and sixty two million dollar contract,

527
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 2: which yeah, I mean that feels like it could be

528
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 2: his absolute steal, especially with how Nimo played last year

529
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 2: and how good his defense is, how good he is

530
00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 2: is the plate. You're getting it all around, really good

531
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,359
Speaker 2: center fielder in his prime years for twenty million dollars

532
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,800
Speaker 2: a year, all day, sign me up.

533
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 1: This was the deal that when it got signed, you

534
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 1: were immediately able to tell who paid close attention to

535
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 1: Nimo and the metro of the course for his career

536
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 1: who didn't, because all the people are paying close tention

537
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,880
Speaker 1: were like, oh my god, Thank the Lord, the Mets

538
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 1: got Brandon Nemo back, like all our fears are averted,

539
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:40,919
Speaker 1: and all the people who don't pay at tettert like

540
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,120
Speaker 1: you gave eight years and twenty million dollars a year.

541
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: This guy has never even played one hundred and sixty

542
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: two games. He can't even do that. And then, like

543
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,680
Speaker 1: you do, look at some of Nimo, You're like, wow,

544
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 1: this guy hasn't even hit forty home runs the last

545
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 1: four years, which is kind of funny. Or he's hit

546
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,439
Speaker 1: eight twenty four, he's hit forty the home runs exactly.

547
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 1: There you go, good math, good math, there we go.

548
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you watch this guy day in

549
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: the day, you just see how hard he works. You

550
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: see everything he does to this team. You see how

551
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 1: important he is at the league off spot in this order.

552
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,400
Speaker 1: You see how much the game changes when he gets

553
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,639
Speaker 1: on base to start the game and sprints down to

554
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 1: first base. You see how much he's improved, especially defensively,

555
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: over the last few years. His just commitment to getting

556
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: better and better every single year. Guy who was still

557
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: baseball young because he didn't play high school baseball, he

558
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 1: didn't play college baseball. He has such an uneven, rocky development.

559
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 1: And see him come into his own as he's in

560
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 1: his physical prime and reaching free agency and the only

561
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: center fielder on the market. He had all leverage in

562
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 1: the world, him and Scott Boris, and this was a

563
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 1: great deal when the Mets had to make and one

564
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: we're just so over the moon that they did make.

565
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: He has a.

566
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 2: WRC plus over the last two seasons of one thirty

567
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,880
Speaker 2: five that is twentieth best in.

568
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball.

569
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 2: Twentieth best in Major League Baseball at WRC plus creating

570
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 2: runs for your offense.

571
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 1: He also plays a great center field.

572
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 2: I mean some of the names of guys that he's

573
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 2: ahead of, Nolan Aeronado, Xander Bogart's Trey Turner. I mean,

574
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 2: we're naming some really, really good play and we're getting

575
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 2: Brandon Nimo at twenty million dollars a year. Like I again,

576
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 2: I made it so well known that was the guy

577
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 2: I felt the Mets had to bring back, especially because

578
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 2: the drop in talent that would have happened if Brandon

579
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: Nimo wasn't our center fielder would have been huge.

580
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 1: That would have been really really.

581
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 2: Hard to replace, especially because you probably moved Martin to center,

582
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: and then you have that whole situation going on, like

583
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 2: Nimo and center for the next eight years is gonna

584
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 2: just it's gonna be great.

585
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fantastic. I'm so pumped. I'm sure he

586
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 1: won't be in center for the next eight years. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,

587
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 1: feel yeah yeah. The way the way Brandon was developing

588
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: this point in his career like this, he's on base skills,

589
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: his ability not to chase bad pitches, that is one

590
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: of the best skills that you have that ages. So

591
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: the fact that he has that now is probably not

592
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: gonna get worse. He could even get better. And then

593
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: the fact that he's a good defensive center fielder right

594
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: now and center will be able to be still a

595
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: plus center field defender over there in the corner as

596
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: his contract gets in the later years. It's I don't know.

597
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say this slam dunk because the eight

598
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: years is crazy, but like thinking about it like this,

599
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: this is it And we got Johnny stats coming in

600
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 1: here from the bullpen, little stat. Only five players have

601
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: a higher on base percentage than NEMO since the start

602
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: of allegedly John's favorite year twenty eighteen, his favorite.

603
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 3: Years twenty eight You know why it's my favorite year?

604
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: Oh Rangers, year you turn thirty?

605
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 3: No?

606
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: No, okay, well year he turned forty, he's what forty two? Now?

607
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 4: No, Mark, you call me out on this because we

608
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 4: have been debating a little behind the scenes about some

609
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 4: other baseball players have signed free agent contracts recently, and

610
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 4: I keep going back to twenty eighteen because it's a

611
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 4: nice it's a it's a meaty sample size, you know,

612
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 4: like those thick, busting calves. It's like that, except for

613
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 4: sample size. That's what you want, a five year sample.

614
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 4: So anyway, yeah, five guys in baseball have higher obps

615
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 4: than NEMO since that year.

616
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 3: Who are ok and the company?

617
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 4: The company we're about to mention really contextualizes twenty million

618
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 4: a year.

619
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Speaker 1: I got two real quick ones here, Trout move trout. Oh,

620
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: Mookie's another one.

621
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Speaker 4: Trout, yes, number one, Mookie bets no judge, judge, yes, okay.

622
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 4: Man Bregman is seven, right, Actually, Brandon Emo ahead of

623
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 4: Alex Bregman.

624
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: What about Jordan Alvarez? Probably not qualified?

625
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 4: No, he has qualified. He's ninth on this list. And

626
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 4: that's a good point. It is qualifiers. Jose Ramirez, No,

627
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 4: Jose Ramirez. Brandon Emo ahead of Jose Ramirez. He's ahead

628
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 4: of Goldman players here.

629
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'll.

630
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 3: Give you together. I'll give you the other three. If

631
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 3: you got Harper, Bryce Harper is one of them. Yes,

632
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 3: he's fourth on this list.

633
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: One more guest Schwarber.

634
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 3: Not Schwarber. Okay, who there's a pretty obvious one. You

635
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 3: guys are missing.

636
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: We're missing him, Yeah, obvious obvious. Oh so though, yes, you.

637
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 4: Guys just knocked him out on your last guesses. I

638
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 4: love that, yes, Freeman, But I mean that just goes

639
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 4: to show. Look, we we had been talking throughout the

640
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 4: whole process, like who do they replace him with? And

641
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 4: you know, Kevin Kiermeyer was a name that was thrown

642
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 4: around and mentioned Andrew Ben and Tendy. He have five

643
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 4: home runs last season.

644
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: There's only ten less thon Xander Boguards.

645
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 4: Not everything's a bad home runs, but yeah, I mean

646
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 4: you guy. You guys mentioned that, you guys said all

647
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 4: there is to say, and I think that when you

648
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 4: put that into context, that.

649
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: This guy is the elite of the elite and getting

650
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Speaker 3: on base.

651
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Speaker 4: It's it's just it was a great night in Mets world,

652
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Speaker 4: as you guys said, a fantastic.

653
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Speaker 2: Night, especially because it came out of nowhere, like just seemingly,

654
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the Mets signed Brandon Nemo like

655
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 2: there hadn't been a rumor, there hadn't been anything, and

656
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 2: especially with Judge being off the board already, you kind

657
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 2: of felt like Nimo was gonna take his time as

658
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 2: a Boris guy and eight for one sixty two, it

659
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: seemed like it seemed like the Mets called Him's like

660
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 2: yeah right, I'm in. Like actually, the opposite rumors, the

661
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 2: rumors going in the other direction that Mets see it

662
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 2: unlikely sign Brandon Nemo whould go to show you how

663
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 2: much you could really trust rumors this day and age.

664
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Speaker 1: Of baseball, but unbelievable. It's guys at ten percent walkerrate

665
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: every single year since twenty sixteen, his barrels per play,

666
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: the appearance keep getting better. Just he's so good. He's

667
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: so freaking good. And the two years in Brandonmo's career

668
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: where he's play at least one hundred and forty games,

669
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: he's earned at least four point a that four. If

670
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: you could do that three four, five times over the

671
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: life of this contract, it is unbelievably incredibly worth it.

672
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, I'm so excited. I mean, he's a

673
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: big dude too. Well.

674
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 2: When I met him on the field and did some

675
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 2: TikTok stuff with him, shook his hand, I was like,

676
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 2: this dude is so massive. I know it doesn't necessarily

677
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: look like it all the time on the field, but

678
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: he's like he's built like you'd be a star wide receiver.

679
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: He's just a big do big shoulders. Like the power

680
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 2: I think can definitely come, but it's also not really

681
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 2: his game, Like he made great he had great success

682
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 2: this year, like slapping the ball around the field, getting

683
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 2: on base, doing his thing.

684
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Speaker 1: If he decides to become a power guy, like, oh

685
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: my goodness, this could be crazy. I mean, even last

686
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 1: year with the year of the dead ball, sixteen home runs,

687
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: like it's not really anything to slash. That was the

688
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: second most of his entire career after multiple years. If

689
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: hitting eight literally eight three years in a row exactly

690
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: with a vastly different amount of different amount of games

691
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: being played six three, two, ten, that's that's a big

692
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: that's a big boy. And also you look at look

693
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 1: at the other outfielders in baseball over the last two years,

694
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: we've signed contracts in a similar range of aav of

695
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: Starling Marte, Kyle Schwarber, Nicostianos. I mean, I think in

696
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: terms of like everything a player does, I'm not saying

697
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: that Nimo's the best player in that list, but in

698
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: terms of doing both things really well, I don't know.

699
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I can't find another guy. And

700
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: this is five million less annually than George Springer and

701
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: their commitments end at about the same age. I'll say,

702
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: I'll say Nimo is the best guy out of that

703
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: list that you mentioned. I think he is.

704
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 2: I think pretty clearly, like I Schwarber has the power,

705
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 2: Castianos looked horrible last year, and Marte is really good.

706
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: But I just think Brandon Nimo's better.

707
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 2: I I mean me and you have been saying it,

708
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: James for a while, but brand Nimo's elite.

709
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying it.

710
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 2: It's weird to say at center field because you always

711
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 2: have Trout, But just because Mike Trout exists as one

712
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: of the best players of all time doesn't mean that

713
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 2: the other good players aren't elite as well. And brand

714
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: Nimo's one hundred percent elite.

715
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: He totally just it's the whole thing is about him

716
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: staying on the field, and you're only injury prone until

717
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: you're not. That's it, and.

718
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 4: There's more potential power there. I think with Nimo, he

719
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 4: is a guy who's very bad.

720
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 3: If his approach at the plate.

721
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 4: I remember there was a story about Joey Vado and

722
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: Brandon Nemo talking. I think it was twenty one when

723
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 4: the Reds came to City Field and the you know,

724
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 4: the the mindset of hey, swinging three to zero is

725
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: not the worst thing in the world, Like, yeah, obviously

726
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 4: you're in the driver's seat to draw a walk, but

727
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 4: you're getting it.

728
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 3: You're getting a strike at three, you know, like let

729
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: one rip.

730
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 4: Like you said, a big, a big framed guy played

731
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 4: football in high school, is a great football player. There

732
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 4: is more untapped power there. I think it's really the mindset,

733
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 4: the approach that Brandon Nemo takes it to the batter's

734
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 4: box with him. And it would not shock me if

735
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 4: as he continues to get older, you know, if he

736
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 4: tries to maybe sell out a little bit for some power.

737
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 4: Uh and that and that's a fine thing. And like

738
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 4: you guys said, how many good center fielders are there

739
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 4: in this sport right now?

740
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: Six?

741
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 4: Maybe it's there's such there's such a it's crazy because

742
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: it's such an important position. You look at defense and

743
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 4: center field and some of the teams that have gone

744
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 4: to the World Series in the last five years and

745
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 4: they they've been teams with good center fielders. And it's

746
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 4: just such a hard thing to find. And that's really

747
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 4: what made Brandon Nemo so valuable in this particular offseason,

748
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 4: and that's why he winds up getting an eight year deal.

749
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,239
Speaker 4: And I know the two of you were at We're

750
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 4: talking last week. I think Marky posed the question of James,

751
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 4: how many years do you think Brandon Nema winds up with?

752
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 3: No one said eight.

753
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 4: And it's something that we're learning this offseason is that

754
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 4: these teams are not worrying so much about twenty thirty.

755
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 4: Twenty thirty one, and James is smiling because it goes

756
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 4: in back to a conversation. But it's been a theme

757
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 4: all off season, and I don't think that it's going

758
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 4: to be a discontinued theme. Number One, it helps soften

759
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 4: the aav blow. You know the teams that are spending

760
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 4: right now, Padres, Phillies, Mets, maybe Yankees will see what

761
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 4: they do. What do they all have in common? They're

762
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 4: all kind of in win now mode. Yep, no one

763
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 4: is worrying about twenty thirty. That's number one and number

764
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 4: two again, no one has any idea what.

765
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: Baseball is gonna look like in twenty thirty.

766
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Speaker 4: We're probably gonna have another CBA negotiated, and I'm not

767
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 4: just saying that like the last one was five years.

768
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. I think about that.

769
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: I didn't think about the idea that baseball is going

770
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: is one going to be looking different by twenty thirty.

771
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 2: It's going to be much larger. I'm sure there might

772
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: even be expansion of off Like the.

773
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: League is going to be completely different.

774
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 2: So having your guy locked up for years that are

775
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: kind of like made.

776
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: Up right now. Who cares doesn't matter. And we also

777
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: just signed as a league like two massive streaming deals

778
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: last year. That's only going to become more prevalent. That

779
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: money is only getting deeper into these guys pockets over

780
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: the next few years. And I mean, it's true, it's

781
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: so a good point. I also think that with the

782
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: lack of the next option and the fact that you

783
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: don't want this to drag out because you want to

784
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: make sure you can like kind of use the rest

785
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: of the off season now to fill in the corners

786
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: of your roster, and now all the meats in place,

787
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: you know you got all your metia I getting out

788
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: good bread you want. If you let this drag out,

789
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: then you ended up missing, like you're you're screwed. Like

790
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: you have to be a little bit more aggressive early.

791
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: And we saw this with basically all these free agents

792
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: that MAT's Billy up with Steve Comer very aggressive early

793
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: to make sure they got their guys and then they

794
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: could let the rest fill itself. And I also think

795
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: another part of NIMO, we're talking about defense, talking about

796
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: how many good center fielders they actually are the Mets

797
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: have over like about ninety million dollars committed to two

798
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: pitchers who do not get any ground balls. You have

799
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: to have elite center field defense behind Max Scherz or

800
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, or that investment is not really worth what

801
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: you're paying. So to not have gotten him or like

802
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: an app strong defensive replacement would have been stupid. And

803
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: then if you get a big, strong defensive replacement you

804
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: can't hit, then you really need another hitter. And I

805
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: don't know where the other hitter was to come from

806
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: based on the way the market shaking out right now.

807
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: So this was just a move that simply had to happen.

808
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: And to one of John's points before, Brandon Nimmo has

809
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: now increased his swing rates. That means the percentage of

810
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: pitches he has swung on in one, two, three, four, five,

811
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: six consecutive years, he's been swinging more frequently. Saw this

812
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: year the first pitch swing jump up too, we've seen.

813
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: You know, some of that comes with Nimo's chase rate

814
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: rising too, but he still is one of the best

815
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: chase rates in all of baseball, even as it's rising.

816
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: A little bit selective aggression learning when he get learning

817
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: when he has a pitch to hit. How many times

818
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: in the last two years, where was there a pitching

819
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: change that happened late in the game and s and

820
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: one barely gets back to the game and there's a

821
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: ball sailing out to right field off brand Nemo's bad dude.

822
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: The Cardinals game, literally, like, that's the one that comes

823
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: right to mind, is the Cardinal game where all of

824
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: a sudden, the balls in the air.

825
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: And we're like, okay, the Mets are thin, they take

826
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: the lead. There's so many there's so many things that

827
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: brand Nemo is good at, and there's so many things

828
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: he's improving at, and there's just so many reasons why

829
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: he's going to be a very good player. That this was,

830
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: and you also saw just how robust his Marco was.

831
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: Every single team and their mother and on brand Nemo,

832
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: everybody wanted the piece of this guy. Like you, guys,

833
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: don't think that means that something good. No.

834
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: I also think it's really cool too that, like last

835
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: year we saw Brandon Nemo. I don't want to say

836
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: like necessarily be a leader more, but like be a

837
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 2: little bit more vocal right talking to the reporters and

838
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: pressed more, having you know more sound bites out there,

839
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: and one of the things he talked about is like,

840
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: Mets fans deserve this. I love playing for the Mets,

841
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: I love being here, and I feel like this. The

842
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: speed of which the contract was done, everything about this

843
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: just tells you that Brand Nemo was like, Oh, I

844
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: don't I don't want to leave.

845
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: I want to be a Met for the rest of

846
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: my life. I love it here.

847
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 2: Like everything about this is just it feels really good.

848
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: And I'm also really happy because I can now get

849
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: a Brandon Nemo jersey, one that I have wanted for

850
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: a while, and I know he's not going anywhere. When

851
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: this contract over, Brand Nema will have spent twenty years

852
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: in the Mets organization.

853
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: Wow, that's insane to think about. That's a lifetime. I mean,

854
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: that's like a full person growing up in the Mets organization.

855
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: That's like half of John's life right now in twenty years. Yeah, almost,

856
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: it's almost half of John's life. That's crazy.

857
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 4: You know, James, not to get too sidetracked from Brandon Nemo,

858
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: but you made a great analogy with the meat and

859
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: the bread, and I got me thinking, I need to

860
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: know when James Giano's going to the local Delhi. Well,

861
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 4: what it's on that perfect James Ciano sandwich. The listeners

862
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 4: need to know.

863
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: No bread because he's gluten free. That's d no. But

864
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Speaker 1: I have the time in my life where I was

865
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Speaker 1: a glutenist and I was really a really strong member

866
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: of the Delhi. My I don't know. My go to

867
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: deli sandwich has always been some some variation of a

868
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: sandwich that Mark and I grew up on. Okay, it

869
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: was called the Trinidad shout out her, she's in Westfield.

870
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: It was turkey, roast beef, lettuce, onions, tomato, Russian dressing.

871
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: It's a banger, okay.

872
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 4: All right, I mean those are those are kind of

873
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 4: mid meats. I think roast beef kind of made.

874
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: I like put together. I think they add a lot

875
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: to one another. Also, I mean I love a good

876
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: Italian always of course too. Those are probably the two

877
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: number ones.

878
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, A little gobb cool, never hurt anybody, you just

879
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: I like to just stack up the meats. No lettuce,

880
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 2: no tomato, no onions, no salt, pepper, whatever the anywhere

881
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 2: near a salad absolutely not. I just get meat, bread

882
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 2: and when I could eat cheese, some cheese on there,

883
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: which I'm desperately missing.

884
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: But shout out the old deli the Mark used to

885
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: live near. I'm not gonna say be cause I don't

886
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: want to docks him, but they made probably the best

887
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: raps in all of Queens. This would make unbelievable raps.

888
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: They had chicken cutlets, they had all kinds of toppings,

889
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: a great chipotle mayonnaise. Oh my god, many many a

890
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: day on the old Terrace were saved by a rap

891
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: from the from the deli. Whoever lives at Astoria, you

892
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: know what?

893
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 2: You know which one we're talking about, because if you've

894
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: been there and you go, that makes that makes a

895
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: good a good rap over?

896
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Are there multiple.

897
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: Locations that maybe?

898
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: I mean?

899
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 4: I'm you know, I'll ask you guys after because I'm

900
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 4: looking into a story right now and I'm trying to

901
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 4: really get the sense of like what's good, what's not?

902
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 4: You know, the good restaurants where I want to be.

903
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 3: So you piqued my interest.

904
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: Here we'll have John.

905
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 2: If you actually came out with us the night that

906
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: we won in the playoffs, you know you would have

907
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 2: been able to see a story a lot.

908
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 4: Sorry, it was two am and I had to be

909
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 4: back at the stadium at ten am the next.

910
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: Morning, forty year old man. Excuse again, coming. Here's a

911
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: good hint though, the name of this deli, there's probably

912
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: conservatively about fourteen fifteen thousand delis in New York City

913
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: with the exact same name. Well, we could say that

914
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: name Gourmet Deli. Yeah, it's the Gourmet Deli it Yeah,

915
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: then you could pinpoint me and Mark's old department by that,

916
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: which no one lives anymore. So good to look trying

917
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: to find us. Well, someone lives there, just not us. Yeah.

918
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 1: There's also one more move that the Mets made last

919
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: week that kind of got lost in the shuffle of

920
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: our record, I think in our posting the last episode,

921
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: and that was in the Rule five draft. We picked

922
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: up relief pitcher from the Yankees organization, Zach Green. So

923
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: him being picked, what was it were we had? What

924
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: conversation were we having?

925
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily remember what it was, but we were

926
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 2: talking with each other live while this was happening. And

927
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: you saw this and your reaction, you would have thought

928
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 2: that we just like we just signed Brandon Nimo.

929
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: You're like, the BET's got Zach Green.

930
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 2: It was like you were ecstatic, so I'm excited to

931
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 2: hear what you gotta say about him.

932
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I did some I had with some

933
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: notes on the Rule five draft last week that just

934
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: got kind of lost in the shuffle. But he had

935
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: either the highest or one of the highest drag guy

936
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: rates that were available in the Rule five draft, and

937
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: it was all at Triple A thirty three point three

938
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: percent strike gut rate. Last year in Triple A couple

939
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: of within eleven percent walk right, But that's why the

940
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: guy's available in the Rule five draft, one ninety nine

941
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: bating average against last year in Triple A. He was

942
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: a full time relief pitcher, but he was very commonly

943
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: used in multi ning azings. He had forty appearances in

944
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: about sixty innings, just to give you guys the sense

945
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: of what he has. And he has one of these

946
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: super funky, unique fastballs that comes from this kind of

947
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: low arms, but he still has the ride and a

948
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: little bit of cut on it. So because it comes

949
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: from that low armslot, the ride kind of looks more sinister,

950
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: I guess, I want to say. And it had very

951
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: high whiff rates, especially in terms of minor league swings

952
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: and misses for fastballs that were under ninety five miles

953
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: an hour, and then he throws the the new Yankee

954
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: Dodger patented sweeper pitch I mentioned before to give you

955
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: guys the jargon of it. It's thrown like a slitherer,

956
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: but it has a fancy term called gyro spin, which

957
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: means that the way the ball actually spins in the

958
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: air is different than the way the ball spins off

959
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: the fingers. That's the best I could way I can

960
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: describe it, because it's well above my pay grade. But

961
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: those two pitches get tons of whiffs. He also mixes

962
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: it in a change up and a color that aren't as good,

963
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: but they're both passable. And since we took him in

964
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: the Rule five draft, that means we have to give

965
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: him back unless he spends the entire year on our

966
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: twenty six man roster. So the Mets picked Zach Green,

967
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't exactly have the most roster spots

968
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 1: available up for grabs right now, with a full intention

969
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: of him being in their bullpen for the entire year,

970
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: and I think there's a good chance that he becomes

971
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: at least a medium leverage be team reliever.

972
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: For us there's another form Yankee prospect that was taken

973
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: in the Rule five draft recently that I know always

974
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: had some great success. James, you want to fill the

975
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 2: viewers in on who that could be.

976
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: It's Garrett Whitlock, probably one of the ten fifteen most

977
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: effective relievers in all baseball over the last two years.

978
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: The Yankees just have such a glut of pitching prospects

979
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: right now. We saw them trade like seven of them

980
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: away at the last trade deadline, probably twelve away over

981
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: the last two years. Been all the trades they've made,

982
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 1: and they still just have so many of these guys.

983
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: And they're really good at teaching these guys either sinkers

984
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: that make you go cross eyed or the rising fastball.

985
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: And they all have this wicked sweeper that pitch that's

986
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: really good at both missing bats and getting low eggs

987
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: of velasty contact on them. So I think, as Zach

988
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: Green in terms of a Rule five draft pick has

989
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: a relatively high floor and someone that think will a

990
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: little bit tweaking, a little bit maneuvering, even just hiding him,

991
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: maybe just acas the bad teams at first, letting him

992
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: get up to speed. It could be a gem. My

993
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 1: phone just buzzed.

994
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: I think I'm getting PTSD from when we finished recordings

995
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,919
Speaker 2: and something happens afterwards. I was like, did something just happen?

996
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: My phone's buzzing. No notifications, no moves have been made,

997
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 2: but there has.

998
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: Been a move. And this is a sad one for me. Actually,

999
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 3: who's this?

1000
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 4: John Hayman tweets and the team confirms always fell when

1001
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 4: that happens.

1002
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: Wait, did it just happen?

1003
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 3: I just know it was like ten minutes ago. I'm

1004
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 3: checking my phone for the first time. Anyway, are you

1005
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: really yeah?

1006
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: Of course, all.

1007
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 4: Right, I guess I can. I guess I can see it. Anyway,

1008
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 4: Ryan Yarborough has been signed by the Kansas City Royals,

1009
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 4: thus thus ending, thus ending my personal offseason pursuit. But

1010
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 4: you know, when you look at the forty man roster

1011
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 4: on the Mets website right now, there are a lot

1012
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 4: of bullpen options, and James, I have a question for

1013
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 4: you. You're very well versed in this. Another Yankee that was

1014
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 4: kind of a casualty of their forty man crunch with

1015
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 4: Stephen Ridings who Waivers did not make it through. Waivers

1016
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 4: was claimed by the Mets. Now, what I understand about

1017
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 4: Ridings is he is. He's a flamethrower. So I guess, James,

1018
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 4: my question for you and for you to talk to

1019
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 4: fans about the differences between Green and Ridings. Obviously, the

1020
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 4: Mets need to keep Green on the roster, like you mentioned,

1021
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 4: for them to retain his services throughout the season, So

1022
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 4: maybe he has a leg up over Ridings, who I'm assuming.

1023
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 4: I'm not sure his option situation.

1024
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: Rythings has three options. Writhings throws significantly harder, and he

1025
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: has good he has good physics on that fastball too,

1026
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: and he has a good slither. I'm not sure if

1027
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: he's the same sweeper. I'm not as well versus on Rithing's.

1028
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: Riding's also a little bit older. He's only twenty seven

1029
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: years old. I believe Green was just twenty five. Riting's

1030
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: also much bigger. Ritings is six foot eight, which is

1031
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: that really helps him bear down on Hithers. Rydings also

1032
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: is coming off an injury where I believe he only

1033
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: pitched that page just lowan. He only pushed two winnings

1034
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: last year right across all levels the naked systems. So

1035
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: I think Rithing' is probably a guy more of a project,

1036
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: more of a guy we're gonna have to nurse along,

1037
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: but probably more potential Sam mc williams. I guess, yeah,

1038
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: Sam mcwienside. But he's bigger than McWilliams, and he had

1039
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: more pedigree when he was coming up, more so than McWilliams.

1040
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: Like Rithing's on, Fangres has a seventy grade fastball. You

1041
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: don't see seventy grades often. They should not be taken lightly.

1042
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: He's a guy who if things all click, and it's

1043
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: probably not even the highest chance of that, but it's

1044
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: definitely possible, just based on what we have from right now.

1045
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: If it does click, you could be looking at the

1046
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: potential monster. But over the last couple of years even

1047
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: looks like actually, in his entire entire professional career, he's

1048
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: only thrown twenty ten five two less than fifty innings

1049
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: above a ball. I believe there's a lot of stuff there,

1050
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: but he's also twenty years old. These big pictures sometimes

1051
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: take long as develop. It's someone that's possible and someone

1052
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: who I like that we have in the mix, along

1053
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: with someone we talk about a few episodes ago. Jeff Brigham,

1054
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: who's coming in with minor league options from the Marlins,

1055
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: has given length in the past and has an elite

1056
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: slyther Eliezer Hernandez, who's someone is going to be probably

1057
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: this year's Trevor Williams along with Joey Lukezi sharing that

1058
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: role once he's healthy, once they're both healthy. Who doesn't

1059
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: throw that hard? These really good limiting hard contact. When

1060
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: I became obsessed with eliez Or Hernandez few years ago

1061
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: because he pushed an entire season in the PCL with

1062
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: the juice ball and give up zero home runs, I

1063
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Like for a guy to do that,

1064
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. The PCL is the Triple A League out West,

1065
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: like tons of teams have crazy altitudes like every almost

1066
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: have to stadium's a like course field. This guy gave

1067
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: up no home runs whole season out there. Ridiculous stuff.

1068
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: So I think I'm really I'm really happy, proud and

1069
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: encouraged by how this Mets front office has built bullpen

1070
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: and pitching depth in just such a very short time

1071
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: ass offseason definitely my biggest concern going in and they

1072
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: passed it with ridiculously flying colors.

1073
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: Like a lot of these names in the Bullbend, you

1074
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: guys might not be familiar with yet, but you will

1075
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 2: find out about them soon, like just going through Like

1076
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: you said, John, I think that was a good thing

1077
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: to bring up. Like Jeff Brigham, We've talked about James

1078
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: really like some John Curtis, formerly with the Rays Brewers

1079
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: smart pitching teams. That was a fun story about John

1080
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 2: Curtis when I went to the World Series in Texas

1081
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 2: during the COVID year, sitting out on the outfield before

1082
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: the game watching VP, John Curtis might be one of

1083
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: the sneaky best athletes I've seen in a while on

1084
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: a baseball field. He was robbing home runs like Kevin

1085
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: Kiermier during VP like it was nothing.

1086
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable.

1087
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe how good he was at tracking balls

1088
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 2: and how easy he was climbing the fence. Incredible athlete

1089
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 2: like that. You mentioned Eliezer Hernandez. Joan Lopez is still

1090
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: around the folk legend. Hopefully we can see him a

1091
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: little bit more too. You mentioned lukez McGill, Bryce Montes

1092
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: de Oca. We know his stuff was crazy electric last year.

1093
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: Negosu looked good at times.

1094
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 2: Brooks Raley, the left handed reliever who's gonna be our

1095
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: lefty specialist good stuff. Taylor Sawsato, I don't know as

1096
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: much on him, but I know James had some good things.

1097
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 2: And William Woods, the guy that they got from the Braves,

1098
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 2: another guy who's got good stuff. So it at least

1099
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: if you're a Mets fan, you see the process the

1100
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 2: Mets are thinking right now, and you've got to be

1101
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 2: encouraged because these are things that you see the Dodgers,

1102
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: the Rays, the Brewers, the three smart team and the

1103
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 2: Ashers I guess too, three four smart teams in baseball

1104
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: in terms of pitching and especially getting the most out

1105
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 2: of just random guys in the bullpen.

1106
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: This is all guys that they would be interested in,

1107
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: which you gotta love to say. The last two seasons

1108
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: that John Curtis pitched, he had a strike guy raid

1109
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: over twenty four percent, which is a hair Highland League average,

1110
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: and just a four percent walk rate between twenty twenty

1111
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one, when he was pitching very well.

1112
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: Between the I believe it was a raise and I

1113
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: think the Brewers and one more team, I think the

1114
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: Marlins took a pass at him and he starts to

1115
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: not pitch that well. There there's ninety five mile an

1116
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: hour fastball with decent ride and he throws a slide there.

1117
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: It has a two play movement. This guy, he was

1118
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: one of those moves that the Mets signed last year,

1119
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: just a guy who they're gonna let them rehab one

1120
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: year with time of John surgery, then pitch the next year.

1121
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: Where it was like, oh, the process is different now.

1122
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: This is something that the Mets of old would have

1123
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: never done. Pay a guy for a full year not

1124
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: to play, just you haven't for cheap the next year

1125
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: the second that move happened to us. But I think

1126
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: when Coffin started to build for people were paying very

1127
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 1: close attention. I think that just the way they built

1128
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: all of these guys out, we didn't even just mention

1129
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: Brooks Rayley, who's a guy that Mets picked up for

1130
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: a single A pitcher in Keishawan sq who's good pitcher,

1131
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: good prospect. I think he was already twenty one years old,

1132
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: twenty two years old, still in low way. It was

1133
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: gonna take a very big was gonna take a very

1134
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: long time develop. Brook Rayley is a guy who just

1135
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: is coming off of a completely elite, elite season as

1136
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: a left handed reliever, and get guys out both sides

1137
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: of the plate like him and Robertson and Drew Smith

1138
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 1: are kind of are have kind of become the eighth

1139
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: inning guys. Now is the bridge to Edwin Dias. Perhaps

1140
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 1: there's another guy who fills in that role and comes through,

1141
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: maybe mcgil or Peterson, depending on how the rotation depth

1142
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: shakes out, become elite relievers. I think they both have

1143
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: that skill set within them. There's a lot of options

1144
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: right here. Doesn't look like how probably we will think

1145
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: about bullpen's how we thought about bullpens for a long time.

1146
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: It's Mets fans, but this is how the bullpens look

1147
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: of the best teams in baseball, and that I think

1148
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: is something that we can all hang our hats on.

1149
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: One hundred percent.

1150
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 2: Fun fact about Stephen Ridings as well, James, he played

1151
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: against a couple kids that we went to high school

1152
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 2: with because he played He's a D three baseball guy

1153
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 2: Haverford College. And when I was talking to Mike Andracona

1154
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 2: and Brad d. Martinez shoutut to guys who played baseball

1155
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: within high school, they were mentioning how Haverford was a

1156
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 2: powerhouse and they had this one massive pitcher that threw

1157
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 2: absolute gas and had a devastating slider that nobody could touch.

1158
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: And that guy Stephen Ridings.

1159
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 2: Just for some clarification, he had the two six r

1160
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: in college and he was he was filthy.

1161
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: We also sneaky pull Jimmy Ackabonis. You guys forgot to

1162
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: mention him too. We got Jimmy Yakobonas. Yeah, I think

1163
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: we picked him up off waivers a few weeks ago,

1164
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: I want to say was last week twelve seven. So

1165
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: in the minor league contract with the Mets. He is

1166
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: not on the forty man Okay, yeah, it's a minor

1167
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: league contract. He's Jimmy Ackabonas has some giftable pitches.

1168
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 2: If you will, Okay, that a little Pitchington Jackson action

1169
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 2: on Jimmy Akabonus. I feel like we talked about him

1170
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 2: a little bit last year too, where I was like,

1171
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 2: I didn't know Jimmy yakabone has had it like that.

1172
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 1: I think it was that one that one of those

1173
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: things with the Marlins where he just like to recover.

1174
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: We're like, what the help? What is that? This is

1175
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: some stuff here? Yeah? I like everything the Mets are doing.

1176
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 2: I think This offseason has been really really good, especially

1177
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 2: when it could have It could have been a nightmare

1178
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 2: off season. It could have been really really bad, especially

1179
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 2: when it got started with Jacob b Grom leaving.

1180
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: Like that's two Mets fans. You see that. You hear that,

1181
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, here we go again.

1182
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 2: But I think everything that's gone on since then has

1183
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 2: shown you Mets aren't playing games. Mets are looking to

1184
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 2: win now and they are. They're putting a damn good

1185
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 2: team out there, that's for sure.

1186
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, and apologize all the listeners out there for us

1187
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: just nerding out on random bullpen names. So that's like

1188
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes me especially, But this is why they listened

1189
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: to us. This is winning baseball, baby, This is why

1190
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: they listened to us.

1191
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 3: This is how you win.

1192
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 4: The Houston Astros came up with guys that people have

1193
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 4: not heard of, one after the other out of that

1194
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 4: pen in October, and it's how you win when you

1195
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 4: start over paying for your bullpen help. We've seen the

1196
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 4: Mets go down on that road in the past. We've

1197
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 4: seen other teams go down on that road in the past.

1198
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: Is one famous there's there, Frank Francis, Yeah, Yeah, there's.

1199
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 4: Here's a non net one. B J Ryan an absolute disaster.

1200
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,479
Speaker 4: Or Chad Bradford after his career year.

1201
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: Was the guy named Kobe something? He signed a big deal.

1202
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 3: Remember Ray signed a big deal.

1203
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: So you can see who went, Oh k Hill know

1204
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: someone to see you ups in the Blue Jays. What

1205
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: was his name with the Blue Jays? Oh? Oh oh

1206
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: Brett cecil Brett, Yeah, twelve yep.

1207
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 4: I mean, look the Rafael Montero contract. I know it

1208
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 4: was signed. That was back in middle of October, actually

1209
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,959
Speaker 4: mid November, after the World Series. Excuse me, that's got

1210
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 4: that's got blow up ridden all over it.

1211
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 3: That worries me.

1212
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 4: That contract worries me. You should usually have a GM

1213
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 4: to handle those sorts of things.

1214
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think that was the coolest thing.

1215
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: Going back to David robertson contract, Like while he's thirty

1216
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: eight years old and is coming off for a year,

1217
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: he was mostly good but very sneaky, had like a

1218
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: thirty percent walk right for the trades of the Phillies.

1219
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: He it's only one year deal. The worst case scenario,

1220
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: he stinks and we'll smegle either worst case scenario, not

1221
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: them expecting that at all. I think it is gonna be

1222
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: good so as we can get that control back. But

1223
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: that is, they've really done a really amazing job of

1224
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: mitigating their risk. Like the only two risky moves that

1225
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: they've made technically risky contracts have been more than five

1226
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: years where Nimo and Sanga right, and even Sanga has

1227
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: opt outs after years three and four. So if he's

1228
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: good enough, yeah, I'll probably walk away. And even even

1229
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: if he can't stuff in the rotation, which I don't

1230
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: think is likely. You just got the relievers throw ninety

1231
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: seven with a wicked forkball worst case scenario, and we

1232
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 1: still got Drew Chains. We still got Drew Chains. Who's

1233
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: got the nasty stuff?

1234
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: So I mean, I feel really really confident about how

1235
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: the Mets look right now, and I honestly don't think

1236
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: they're done. I feel like they could be cooking up

1237
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: something more. I don't know, but I feel like it.

1238
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: I guess we'll close with this because in the last

1239
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: like forty eight hours, there's been a there's been a

1240
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: shocking amount of smoke to another other former aster. We're

1241
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: talking about the Asters right now. One perhaps, yeah, one

1242
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: short side potential third baseman whose market looks like it

1243
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: might kind of be a little bit drier than a

1244
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: lot of people expected, like it was last year too,

1245
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: which was weird. Yeah, maybe maybe I don't know. Maybe

1246
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: maybe it's just something about him and his role with

1247
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: all the other stuff that happened with that team. But

1248
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: their report came out today that the Giants seemed to

1249
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: have transitioned from Carlos Korea to looking at Dansby Swanson,

1250
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: which is an interesting, interesting decision one I don't know

1251
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 1: if I would agree with as as a bit as

1252
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: like a member of the front office. But if no

1253
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: one's giving Carlos care a long deal, I'll give him

1254
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: a short one.

1255
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 2: Very easily, right, three for ninety again, just like the

1256
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 2: Twins did with the opt outs. Who says, no, once

1257
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 2: you go, once you go past the level that we're at,

1258
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 2: it's it's everything's fair game here.

1259
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: Every dollar cost to Steve coins by seventeen bill.

1260
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 2: Leave you guys with this, the Mets, with the Steve

1261
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 2: Cohen tax and all going over the luxury tax threshold.

1262
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 2: I think they're going to pay about eighty million in

1263
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 2: penalties is roughly the number I think, and that is four.

1264
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: To twenty million dollars total sala.

1265
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 3: Which is high, which is really high.

1266
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's more than any professional sports team

1267
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: has ever ever called.

1268
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 2: Yes, and the tax that he's gonna pay in terms

1269
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 2: of penalties is more than I think, like eight or

1270
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 2: nine of the teams in Major League Baseball's total payroll,

1271
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: like the Rays, the Orioles, the Pirates, the Reds, like

1272
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: you can guess the teams. But if that doesn't make

1273
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: you feel good as a Mets fan, I don't where

1274
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 2: have you've been? Where have you been the last twenty years?

1275
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 2: Because you should be you should be balved, you should

1276
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 2: be excited.

1277
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 4: You know what the best part of it is. You

1278
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 4: know what the best part of it is is the

1279
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 4: Yankee fans who are twisting themselves in the mental pretzel.

1280
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,399
Speaker 4: We're not just Yankee fans. You see it from Braves fans.

1281
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 4: You see from Phillies fans that are just digging into

1282
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 4: the deepest recesses of their souls to hate and just

1283
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 4: try to convince themselves.

1284
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 3: And you keep hearing the oh.

1285
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 4: Well, you spent all this pony and you're actually not

1286
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 4: that much better than you were last year, like okay, two.

1287
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: Hundred and one games. It's hard to be better than them.

1288
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 4: Of course they did, and this rotation is in a

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Speaker 4: better place than it was last year. And anyone that

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Speaker 4: cannot understand that, it's yes, James and.

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Speaker 1: The bench people say, yeah, this team didn't improve. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean the team didn't improve. This team not

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Speaker 1: an ADWRC plus the other DH is all of last year.

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Speaker 1: This is like the fourth time we're going to say

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Speaker 1: this is something else we're gonna leave you guys with.

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Speaker 1: I think a big part of spending all this money

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Speaker 1: means that there's more pressure on guys who will produce

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Speaker 1: for free. Those two guys as we're going to head

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Speaker 1: close to this season are Brett Bay and Francisco Alvarez,

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Speaker 1: two of the consensus top twenty, top thirty prospects, Alvarez

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Speaker 1: top five, top ten prospect in all of baseball, two

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Speaker 1: of the best rated prospects of their respective positions of

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Speaker 1: catcher in third base, two positions where the Mets probably

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Speaker 1: could use a little bit of assistance in the coming

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Speaker 1: year probably the coming years after that. To have all

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Speaker 1: this money invested in all these different players but none

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Speaker 1: of them to be really invested that far down the line,

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Speaker 1: you need a short term burst of production from guys

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Speaker 1: who don't cost anything, guys with high ceilings, Guys who

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Speaker 1: even right now, the earliest projections, the Seamer projections on

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Speaker 1: fangrafs are projected to be between ten and twenty percent

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Speaker 1: better than the league average. It's a lot better than

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Speaker 1: the twenty percent worse in league average the Mets were

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Speaker 1: if their at DH last year thirty or forty percent

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Speaker 1: league average, they were a catcher. Those two guys have

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Speaker 1: become monumentally important to the way this team works, and

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Speaker 1: I think that Mets fans should be excited about what

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Speaker 1: they both bring to the table. One percent.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the Astros get crazy, crazy production out of

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Speaker 2: their random rookie every single year that ends up being

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Speaker 2: that guy.

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Speaker 1: How about the Mets do it this year?

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Speaker 2: And I think it's totally possible with the young talent

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Speaker 2: that we do have that's ready to play at the

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Speaker 2: major league level right now. I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 2: else to talk about though in this episode, I think

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Speaker 2: we pretty much covered it. It's how refreshing is it

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Speaker 2: to talk about me Mets baseball. We have a media

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Speaker 2: episode that wasn't filled with James as much as I

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Speaker 2: love it, Chad cool talk you know we got the turk.

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Speaker 3: Turkey is a bad feeling for a sandwich. It's a terrible.

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Speaker 1: Turkey turkey cold cuts. Hey, come on, what beats the turkey?

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Speaker 4: Any other meat? Any other meat? Pashrami, corn beef. I

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Speaker 4: mean those are those.

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Speaker 1: Are two pastrami and corn beef. Where you're going to Delhi?

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Speaker 1: He's getting City Field nineteen dollars sandwich. I'm buying one

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Speaker 1: for seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were there said it was the best thing

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Speaker 4: he ever rate. You're and you're trying to sell me turkey.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I will love keep Astromi cats Is on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I'm being quite honest with you, but I swear the

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Speaker 1: guy actually had something. This happens. We live in New York.

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Speaker 1: You get these kind of privileges theoretically, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: maybe in terms of long terms of time and distance.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got too much sandwich. Talk out everyone,

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Speaker 2: everyone's tuned out. Let's wrap it up here, boy, is

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Speaker 2: your guys' favorite sandwich is? In the replies, Yes, leave

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Speaker 2: a review of what sandwich we should try out on

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Speaker 2: the next episode Live for you guys. But for listening

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Speaker 2: to the story, they keep the mets up sticker on

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Speaker 2: Graham Avenue and Williamsburg in their window.

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Speaker 1: Big Mets fans supports of the podcast shout out to them.

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Speaker 2: Hope you guys enjoyed this episode and hopefully on the

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Speaker 2: next one, we have some more awesome things to talk about,

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Speaker 2: so we'll catch you then see you.

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