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Speaker 1: The ten biggest questions the Mets have to answer going

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six season. We got a lot to talk

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Speaker 2: It's almost Opening Day.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it's almost Opening Day. It's not this

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Speaker 3: every single episode start we've had this week, and I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say the next one again. But like this came fast,

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, even for me from a content perspective,

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Speaker 3: I completely forgot about them. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm in

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Speaker 3: two months too myself. But I think the biggest question

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Speaker 3: we don't think that's as much maybe some section of

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Speaker 1: And I think it's a fair question for most of

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Speaker 1: bringing in Bobachet's gonna help there. But that's kind of

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Speaker 2: Now. We went from or one of the corner outfield spots.

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Speaker 1: a bounce back. We lost Edwin Diaz. Our bullpen's not

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Speaker 1: the same. I think there's from the outside perspective, or

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Speaker 1: It's a valid question to ask, but I do think

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Speaker 3: Especially because you don't often see a lot of baseball

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Speaker 3: hard to turn over a team that much one offseason,

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Speaker 3: we believe they are better. We think that this team,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I think last year scored the seventh most

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Speaker 3: For me, it's to be seen. Lots of he said,

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Speaker 3: Especially just the way of again, we basically get it

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Speaker 1: And like I said, we know that winning fixes everything.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to be happy when you're losing, and

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Speaker 3: And again, the rumblings are neither here nor there. We

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Speaker 3: Again, hoping that can be done, but it's easier said

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Speaker 1: No, someone needs to just I think, hopefully push through

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Speaker 3: The season, and maybe that guy's Carlos Mendoza, which brings

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Speaker 3: us to our fourth question. How long is Carlos Mendoza's

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Speaker 1: And maybe that's why we bring in some of the

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Speaker 3: the spring, seeing that some of the actions were good,

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Speaker 3: seeing the way you went to his glove side, fine, like, okay,

436
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Speaker 3: that's again I at least have some confidence in that

437
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Speaker 3: conceptually I get.

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Speaker 1: I'm also interested to see if kay Kera does what

439
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Speaker 1: he did with J. D. Davis where when he was

440
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Speaker 1: with the Giants, fun full circle mets right here.

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Speaker 2: JD.

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Speaker 1: Davis did play elite defense at third base for like

443
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Speaker 1: three months with the Giants, and a big reason was

444
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Speaker 1: unfortunately he doesn't have this.

445
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Speaker 2: JD. Davis had a cannon of him still back.

446
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they put him all the way back basically

447
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,280
Speaker 1: touching the outfield grass. So maybe that's how you help

448
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Speaker 1: mitigate the issues with Bo. But then he doesn't have

449
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Speaker 1: the arm. I was gonna say, maybe do the opposite

450
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Speaker 1: with Bo. Just play him in playing reflexes, just play

451
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Speaker 1: even with the bag, like that's what Bobachett does.

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Speaker 3: Well, Like I was gonna say Boba Sheet least has

453
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Speaker 3: good hands, but his hands out more like fine rather

454
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Speaker 3: than actually good. Yeah, I he hits so TRUTHU will

455
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Speaker 3: do you think is the leash? Like? How how bad

456
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Speaker 3: is Bobachett have to play defense in April for him

457
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Speaker 3: not to be the third basement? May first uh Mark

458
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Speaker 3: Viento's level, but Mark Vantis was still at their basement

459
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Speaker 3: for a huge chunck of last season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Well that's because we had nobody else

461
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Speaker 1: to play the position for a minute, like a Britt

462
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Speaker 1: Baity stunk as we always say, like that first month,

463
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Speaker 1: so there was no other options for a bit.

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Speaker 3: I do wonder, especially even with PLANCO, like I would love.

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Speaker 1: Eduardo Escobar third base defense had a Bobachhett and he

466
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Speaker 1: wasn't a good third baseman either.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping for, That's my goals.

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Speaker 3: Just out they're having a good all the time, just.

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Speaker 2: Playing vibes and hit. That's all I want out of Bow.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm worried about the defense because we know what

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Speaker 2: it can be. I care about the offense though, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I.

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Speaker 3: Think the offense will be great. But then you also

474
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Speaker 3: get to the concern, which is like, please don't take

475
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Speaker 3: the field into the box because you'rect. You can't let

476
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Speaker 3: that affect each other because that's where you're driving your value.

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Speaker 3: And we're both again sensationally high and bobashed as a hitter.

478
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Speaker 3: It's just this is and again the questions about leash.

479
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Speaker 3: How badly do these guys have to play for them

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Speaker 3: not to be at these defensive positions, respectively after two weeks,

481
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Speaker 3: four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, whatever it big?

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Speaker 2: I trust, Kay, kurag get it right, Kay, prove me wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Next yeah, next question. Noel McLean is he an ace?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a question.

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Speaker 1: It's honestly probably a little unfair to ask that in

487
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Speaker 1: what's going to be his rookie season. I think he

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Speaker 1: can prove that he's an ace three years from now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that decision needs to be made today.

490
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Speaker 1: But if Noel McLean is an ace, this Mets team

491
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Speaker 1: is scary good.

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Speaker 3: I just I try not to let like the Mets,

493
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Speaker 3: like the Mets fandom, like seep in. We just talk

494
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Speaker 3: about players in general, whether it be on like my channel,

495
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Speaker 3: or the winds up or anything else that we do.

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Speaker 3: But with McLain, it really just feels like that sensational

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Speaker 3: of a pitcher, Like I found a really cool statu

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Speaker 3: abou him last year and I was doing pitching rankings

499
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Speaker 3: on my channel again. So last year, over the forty

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Speaker 3: eight innings he pitched, he has sixty percent ground ball

501
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Speaker 3: rate in a thirty percent strike out rate. No one's

502
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Speaker 3: to the day that we have. No one's ever done

503
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Speaker 3: that in a full season. Ninety percent of your your

504
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Speaker 3: Oh no, those are just bad. Ones are bad. The

505
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Speaker 3: ball ones all play payers.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying ninety percent of outcomes though on a round

507
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Speaker 1: ball or strikeout.

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Speaker 3: That can't be real because there's no way, because it's

509
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Speaker 3: not there's no way. It was only ten percent flight balls. Yeah,

510
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Speaker 3: that's fair. Yeah, that's not gonna Why let's let's let

511
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Speaker 3: us do a quick look. I'm not gonna war that

512
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Speaker 3: can't beat the strike out rate is all is, all

513
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Speaker 3: played appearances, the ground ball rays, only balls and play gotcha, Yes,

514
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Speaker 3: But then I'm gonna find it still I want to say. Yeah,

515
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Speaker 3: the guy who got the closest to this was twenty

516
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Speaker 3: twenty one. Like the best version of logan Web was

517
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Speaker 3: twenty six and a half percent strike out rate and

518
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Speaker 3: sixty percent ground ball rate, like franber is the only

519
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Speaker 3: guy who every year really sits with that sixty percent

520
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Speaker 3: ground ball rate. I don't know exactly who Nolan McLain's

521
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Speaker 3: future is, but the fact that you can again marry

522
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Speaker 3: that poor of battered ball quality against you with the

523
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Speaker 3: amount of strikeouts, who's able to induce It's it's like

524
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Speaker 3: to say, this guy's the limit is actually very very

525
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Speaker 3: fair for Nolan McLain.

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Speaker 2: Like it's twenty five percent fly ball rate last year.

527
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the bad of the balls, but it's like he's

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Speaker 3: he has it all. And there's also a lot of

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Speaker 3: people right now rallying a bit against Nolan McLain. Two.

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Speaker 3: Two groups of people. One the idiot who were just

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Speaker 3: watching the World Baseball Classic and we're called gamp BA

532
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Speaker 3: home runs. This guy sucks. Two digging deeply into the day,

533
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Speaker 3: especially the fantasy baseball folks. Nolan McLain's swing strike rate

534
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Speaker 3: did not say he should have had thirty percent strike

535
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Speaker 3: gut rate. It was far below. It basically said that

536
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Speaker 3: he really deserves something more like a twenty three to

537
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Speaker 3: twenty five percent strike ut rate, which is truthfully where

538
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Speaker 3: I kind of expected to land. But his stuff is

539
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Speaker 3: so good that guys get caught looking all the time.

540
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Speaker 1: The fast exactly what I was gonna say, I think

541
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Speaker 1: he I think there's a lot of fooling going on.

542
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Speaker 1: I think because we've we've seen the pitching ninja clips.

543
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Speaker 1: The tunneling is out of control. You literally, unless you

544
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Speaker 1: have read the spin, you don't know if it's which

545
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Speaker 1: way it's breaking or how it's breaking.

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Speaker 3: And there's still a prevailing thought with Nolan McLain that

547
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Speaker 3: there could be relative struggles against left east. I think

548
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Speaker 3: there will be, especially to write these because the arriety

549
00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 3: has basically no chance against the sinker and the sweeper together.

550
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Speaker 3: And I do think last year I'm gonna pull up

551
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Speaker 3: the exact number in a second. I think the walk

552
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Speaker 3: rate went about to eleven ish percent against lefties, which

553
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 3: is not a good spot. But at the same time,

554
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Speaker 3: against lefties last season he threw six pitches at least

555
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Speaker 3: thirteen percent of the time. Like that is to get

556
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Speaker 3: into and at bat where like you might feel like

557
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 3: you've put to advantage against the guy, but then be like,

558
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 3: what anything could come at me in any second. We've

559
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 3: seen him work on the color a little bit more

560
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 3: the spring again, more philosity than that. Fasketball will help

561
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 3: with a ton more commands, more just maturation and growth

562
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,159
Speaker 3: of that curveball be a huge deal, Like he could be.

563
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 3: He could be everything we've hoped and dreamed of for

564
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Speaker 3: a long time and having the attitudes to back it up.

565
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Speaker 3: And he does just throw strikes, which I love well again,

566
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Speaker 3: I have it right here. Whereas the the walk right

567
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Speaker 3: against lefties twelve and a half percent versus only three

568
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Speaker 3: percent against the righties.

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Speaker 1: And he's gonna, i mean, like still at the other day,

570
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Speaker 1: they're just are more righties and lefties, so totally.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll see some stacked up limps and lefties against him,

572
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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be like the Brewers, and like those teams,

574
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Speaker 1: they'll stack the lefties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and basically all the decently good teams. Like you're

576
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Speaker 3: gonna see it again a lot of course, like Brandon

577
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Speaker 3: Marsh Bryson Stott in those Phillies lineups, a highly lefty lineup,

578
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Speaker 3: like it's that's going to be the big thing to

579
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Speaker 3: watch him, a claim, But at the same time, like

580
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 3: you're going to see, you're gonna see eighty seven mile

581
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 3: an hour sweepers that break two feet and you're gonna

582
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Speaker 3: like your jaw is gonna be on the floor washing

583
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Speaker 3: the sky pitch.

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Speaker 2: I can start behind your hip and end up on

585
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Speaker 2: the outside corner.

586
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Speaker 3: It's fun to have like a homegrown picture of this quality,

587
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Speaker 3: like especially in terms of like Met's Laura and Met's history,

588
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 3: Like this is always the thing that we've been able

589
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Speaker 3: to lean on and we got this. It's awesome, Like

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Speaker 3: the fact that we could possibly be getting into the

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Speaker 3: next version of one. It makes me like so much extra,

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Speaker 3: so extra giddy to watch this team play like this,

593
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Speaker 3: to have a starting picture and be like every fifth

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Speaker 3: day like I cannot wait to either be at the

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Speaker 3: ballpark and be in front of my television to make

596
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Speaker 3: sure I don't miss an Nolan McClain start. Is such

597
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Speaker 3: a fun place to be as a fan.

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Speaker 1: Like, obviously we'll be at the games, but he might

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Speaker 1: be a more fun picture to watch it at home,

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Speaker 1: just because you get to see the pictures.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh definitely will be. Also, I'm fun. I'm excited

602
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Speaker 3: to see what kind of been stadium stuff that Mets

603
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Speaker 3: you're doing for McLain starts last year. We know how

604
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Speaker 3: much they'd love to do in stadium marketing. This is

605
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Speaker 3: a very marketable young man who's incredibly talented. Like what

606
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Speaker 3: fun stupid fun stuff around the ballpark for McLain Day.

607
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Speaker 3: It's like it's just not be excited to have it,

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Speaker 3: Like what could be released?

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Speaker 1: Now we's pair up the Oklahoma State boys too. Here

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Speaker 1: Curson bench right, former roommate I think at Oklahoma State

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Speaker 1: with Noel McLean.

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Speaker 2: Similarly, what can we expect from him.

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Speaker 1: You talked about how the Mets have been known for

631
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Speaker 1: like we could just print pitchers for a time. But

632
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Speaker 1: then after the last big generation of guys being Cydergard,

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Speaker 1: the Gram Harvey even Matts to an extent, it became hitters.

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Speaker 1: We got Alonso McNeil, nimo even like now a little

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Speaker 1: bit being baby Alvarez. I'll just even say Viento's for

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Speaker 1: the heck of it. The Mets became hitter guys all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, and then now again it's gone back

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Speaker 1: to pitching. Benj's kind of that next hitter. He's the

639
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Speaker 1: first of the David Stearns hitters to come up. This

640
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Speaker 1: guy seems like he's gonna be very good, But I

641
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Speaker 1: do want to temper expectations, yeah, because he did struggle

642
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Speaker 1: in Triple A. He didn't show a ton of power

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Speaker 1: right now in spring training, didn't hit any home runs

644
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Speaker 1: and the ex veelas were fine. Nothing, yeah, but like

645
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Speaker 1: nothing to go absolutely crazy about. Didn't put up any

646
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Speaker 1: like eye popping numbers. I think him hitting ninth is

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Speaker 1: like the best thing.

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Speaker 2: Hit him ninth.

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Speaker 1: Let him get get comfortable in the Major's gonna face

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Speaker 1: Paul Skeens in his first game. Fun enjoy, but like

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Speaker 1: I think by the end of the year, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: look at a guy who's like a very well rounded

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Speaker 1: two three win player.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I even think possibly better than that. Because we

655
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Speaker 3: were talking about this a little bit in the Mets

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Speaker 3: Up discord Shout out the mess up Discord and active

657
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Speaker 3: NonStop shout the guy Sewan he's the best, and shout

658
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Speaker 3: out you guys. We're gonna drop a link to that

659
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Speaker 3: again to keep building that up. But we crowdsore some

660
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Speaker 3: of these questions from them, so I thank you guys

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Speaker 3: for interacting. Talking about the other day. It's hard to

662
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Speaker 3: remember the last time the Mets had this athletic of

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Speaker 3: an outfield, and I think that exists. Carson Bench is

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Speaker 3: really going to impress Mets fans with his defense. That's like,

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Speaker 3: I think whatever we get from Carson Bench at the

666
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Speaker 3: plate is gravy. Like he's going to be a tough out.

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Speaker 3: He's going to put his bat in the ball. Again,

668
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Speaker 3: he might not get to tons of power, but he's

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Speaker 3: at it's a really really good athlete and you're gonna

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Speaker 3: see him catch balls in the corner. Ohlefield, We haven't

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Speaker 3: seen corner Orolfield just get to in a long time

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Speaker 3: with this team. You're gonna see him make throws to

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Speaker 3: gun down a guy trying to go first to third,

674
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Speaker 3: trying to cut down the guy going second home, and

675
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Speaker 3: you're gonna be like, whoa like this is? This is

676
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Speaker 3: a tooled up baseball player. And then when the bad

677
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Speaker 3: eventually does come around for years, then you can start

678
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Speaker 3: to look at a guy like, wow, it's a four

679
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Speaker 3: win player, but this is gonna be a good young ballplayer,

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Speaker 3: some of which we haven't really seen with the Mets

681
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Speaker 3: at this athletic caliber in a while. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I think towards the bottom of the lineup it's

683
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Speaker 1: the perfect place for room, just because your job is

684
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Speaker 1: get on base for the top of the order, turn

685
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Speaker 1: the lineup over, get on base. You don't need to

686
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Speaker 1: hit twenty five home runs. Get on base for the

687
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Speaker 1: big boys to drive you in. Play good defense.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear the term speak, the term

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Speaker 3: second lead off man. Oh God, that's gonna be so

690
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Speaker 3: much fun ether Nandez. The first game that he's got,

691
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Speaker 3: he's gonna be I like Benjim, He's a second leadoff man.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly and it's gonna be great. But also at

693
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Speaker 3: the same time, Carson Bench has only played fifty six

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Speaker 3: games in the Upper Miners, split between Double A and

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Speaker 3: Triple A. He ripped the cover off the ball at

696
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Speaker 3: Double A, but in the twenty four game sample at

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Speaker 3: Triple A last year, it was a one seventy two,

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Speaker 3: two seventy two, three eleven triple slash. That's not very good.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, which I think is why

700
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Speaker 3: the Mets gave him this amazing runway and spring, it

701
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Speaker 3: was plus plus wing decisions. It was a very low

702
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Speaker 3: swing and misrate, his barrel rate, his hard hit rate,

703
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Speaker 3: we're all very much towards the top of what was

704
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Speaker 3: going on in the Triple A League last year. He

705
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Speaker 3: is he has all the tools to be very good

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Speaker 3: baseball player, but you're one, he might just get a

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Speaker 3: ballplayer and not a star.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he won the job, so.

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Speaker 3: He deserves it. Glad to see Carson ben jop He

710
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Speaker 3: just stole this job. Then he gave them a no choice.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the talking injury was a big part of

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Speaker 3: the two but like they talked, the way they talked

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Speaker 3: about Bench carrying himself is like these veterans seemed like

714
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Speaker 3: they love this dude.

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Speaker 2: Was it him?

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Speaker 1: Was it talking about when Soda like knew who he was,

717
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Speaker 1: he like gasped, he like couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like really And then so the Soda also

719
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Speaker 3: made that comment like we got that prospect he might win,

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Speaker 3: he might win right field. I think that was him,

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Speaker 3: Like people thought so thos being a dick. I really

722
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Speaker 3: thought that was so a little more so like kind

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Speaker 3: of jabing bench.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Sodo was a lot more sarcastic

725
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Speaker 1: and tongue in cheek than people give him credit for.

726
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Speaker 1: I think he's got a little more personality than he

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Speaker 1: gives off.

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Speaker 3: That's a question we didnt answer, like maybe do we

729
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Speaker 3: see more of the one? So the personality this season,

730
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Speaker 3: like last year, first year with the new team, signed

731
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Speaker 3: the biggest contract in sports history, there were times where

732
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Speaker 3: he didn't really feel like he was really part of

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Speaker 3: the squad until mid season. He lost his best friend

734
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Speaker 3: of the team at Starling Martte were just watching World

735
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Speaker 3: Baseball Classic have more fun than I've ever seen a

736
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Speaker 3: human have, I think in the history of the world,

737
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Speaker 3: dancing a dumbo. But like it was like it was fun, Like,

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Speaker 3: do we see a little bit more of that? So

739
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Speaker 3: though with his team this year, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: Like two shuffles last year over under two and a

741
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Speaker 1: half soo shuffles this year. I'm gonna I think we're

742
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Speaker 1: gonna see him quite a bit now. I think it's

743
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Speaker 1: gonna be comfortable.

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Speaker 3: Fine, I think we're gonna see one opening day he's

745
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Speaker 3: gonna shuffle. He's gonna get the crowd going that first

746
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Speaker 3: sitting again, first pitch ball from Paul Skin, He's gonna

747
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Speaker 3: fucking jump at him. That's gonna be fun. Now, all question,

748
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Speaker 3: that's much less fun, not fun. What's good with the bullpen?

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Speaker 3: No clue. I have no idea.

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Speaker 1: Again, I think you're a little more confident in them,

751
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Speaker 1: and that to you, you're the pitching guy. I trust

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Speaker 1: your pitching opinions with this thing. But put on my

753
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Speaker 1: wfan hat. Devin Williams stunk it up with the Yankees

754
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Speaker 1: last year. Luke Weaver stunk it up with the Yankees

755
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Speaker 1: last year. Neither of them throw hard. We have forty

756
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Speaker 1: year olds in the bullpen everywhere we look, and then

757
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Speaker 1: we're relying on trum and I and Tobias Myers, who

758
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Speaker 1: were starters like let me have the wfan take of

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Speaker 1: like where what is this bullpen? What is this?

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Speaker 3: I think it's more about if something goes wrong, what happens,

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Speaker 3: because I'm going to trust Devin Williams a lot as

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Speaker 3: we hand to the season. I think Devin Williams is

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Speaker 3: going to I said this yesterday, pitched the chip on

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Speaker 3: his shoulder. He wants to show he was great. He

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Speaker 3: want to show we can handle this city. Why sure

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Speaker 3: we can handle this big market team and then also

767
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Speaker 3: make go in the big contract that I and one

768
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Speaker 3: of the biggest for reliever in baseball. We're at the

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Speaker 3: same time, if there was any kind of falter, we

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Speaker 3: do not have really good high end bullpens out. We

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Speaker 3: still have very little about AJ minter. We have a

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Speaker 3: lot of guys who get are approaching for the year results.

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Speaker 3: You don't throw particularly hard. It's not as the least.

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Speaker 3: Carcio still throws gas. But that's like that's for your

775
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: only gas in your bullpen to be sinker gas. It's

776
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Speaker 3: like this is you don't have a lot to paper

777
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Speaker 3: over mistakes or any kind of unexpected things that are

778
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Speaker 3: not expected, especially if we don't.

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Speaker 1: Have optimal defense on the two of the spots on

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Speaker 1: the infield, like sinker Gas, there's a lot of ground

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Speaker 1: balls are gonna be hit hard.

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Speaker 3: But also at the same time, we might have optimal

783
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Speaker 3: defense in the outfield. I guess no, so the middle

784
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Speaker 3: solo hopefully it's average. But between road Bet and benj

785
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 3: it's like you, that's one of the best outfield defense

786
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Speaker 3: duos in baseball this season. Again, I think that could

787
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Speaker 3: cover up lives mistakes. But there's there's there's wicked bus

788
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Speaker 3: potential in this bullpens. Also, I think some boom potential

789
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Speaker 3: because Devin Williams if you reverse, if you reverse the

790
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Speaker 3: form watry, I expect him to He's going to be

791
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Speaker 3: one of the best closes in baseball. Still a little

792
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Speaker 3: bit hairy unless we could possibly get any kind of

793
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Speaker 3: development from you know, Dylan Ross and Ryan Lamb with

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Speaker 3: our boys.

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Speaker 2: I won't see how many times Devin Williams pitched in

796
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Speaker 2: the city field.

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Speaker 3: How's he pitched there? Is he like throwing like they're

798
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Speaker 3: on there? I mean we're also seeing like new tricks

799
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Speaker 3: from Devin Williams the spring. We're seeing a cover, We're

800
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Speaker 3: seeing a mess around with a slide. They're like for

801
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Speaker 3: him to again, already thirty one years old, already having

802
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Speaker 3: the fastball of last he go in the wrong direction,

803
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Speaker 3: still having maybe the best individual pitch in baseball. It's

804
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Speaker 3: about him giving wrinkles new wrinkles to Hithers because I think, Pete,

805
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 3: what Pete didn't hit that home run a few years

806
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Speaker 3: ago with something I saw a lot of hitters do

807
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Speaker 3: against him and the Yankees last year. Is just kind

808
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Speaker 3: of putting the bat in a spot, and like a

809
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Speaker 3: pitcher like Devin Williams, where he's focusing everything, I'm basically

810
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Speaker 3: throwing to the exact same spot every pitch before he

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Speaker 3: knew the guests this picture of the other pitch, and

812
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Speaker 3: even sometimes you guess right, this stuff was still good

813
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Speaker 3: enough that you swing and miss at it. Just understanding

814
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Speaker 3: that there was only one thing I have to cover

815
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Speaker 3: as a hither it makes it a little bit easier

816
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Speaker 3: to get through in that bad against him, especially again

817
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Speaker 3: we saw last.

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Speaker 2: Year four innings in his career, he's never given up

819
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Speaker 2: a run in the city field.

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Speaker 3: I hope he's that way awesome forever. Don't give up

821
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Speaker 3: any runs this entire year.

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Speaker 2: I'll be happy with that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, fine, I mean this it's gonna be that's going

824
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Speaker 3: to be the best one to watch, especially in terms

825
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Speaker 3: of like the two sections of Mets fans like wfan

826
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Speaker 3: versus Mets up listeners. It's just trust the process. Another

827
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Speaker 3: one that's a WFA fam. Mets fans are going to

828
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Speaker 3: be very excited to answer. If this team is playing well,

829
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Speaker 3: playing to the expectations that we have of them, what

830
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Speaker 3: is going what David Stern's going to do with the

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Speaker 3: possibly keep this thing rolling and make sure we're still

832
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Speaker 3: heading in the right direction as this season goes on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, let's just just look ahead. How aggressive

834
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Speaker 1: he's going to be at the deadline. We saw last

835
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Speaker 1: year he was aggressive. He made all the wrong decisions,

836
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Speaker 1: but he was aggressive. Good process, good process, And at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm not sure if any

838
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Speaker 1: of those guys that we gave up are ever going

839
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Speaker 1: to come back to hurt us in a way where

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't have made those trades.

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Speaker 2: But even heard him talk about at the end of

842
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Speaker 2: the year they probably had to do.

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Speaker 1: They did a little looking in as to the guys

844
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Speaker 1: that they look to bring in now to the Mets

845
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Speaker 1: to play in New York, and they probably would have

846
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Speaker 1: made different decisions had they considered those options. But there

847
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Speaker 1: should be some good players available at this deadline. There

848
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Speaker 1: are some bad teams always.

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Speaker 3: That are interesting.

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Speaker 1: There always are, especially on the bullpen side. We're gonna

851
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Speaker 1: see him get really aggressive. People like to call him

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Speaker 1: a prospect.

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Speaker 2: I don't agree.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just saw them trade out like ten

855
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Speaker 1: prospects this past trade deadline. Yeah, but like this farm

856
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: systems loaded, I think it is time to consider cashing

857
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Speaker 1: it even more than we already have.

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Speaker 3: And even past that, I think more so in the

859
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Speaker 3: first few years. This is a team that's very much

860
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Speaker 3: built in David Stearn's vision and likeness. So how it's

861
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Speaker 3: kind of like what was going on if you guys

862
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Speaker 3: love the movie Moneyball, Like during the first hour of

863
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: that movie, where it's like, how we've asked the question

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Speaker 3: multiple times up this entire list, like what are the

865
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Speaker 3: leashes like to the decisions that you made that like

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Speaker 3: you kind of stood on the table for are you

867
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Speaker 3: getting into them? Are you getting out of them? Are

868
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: you doubling down on them? Like just where whatever happens

869
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: with this team from April to July again, of course

870
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 3: that no shit that's going to dictate what happens to

871
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 3: trade deadline was kind of the deeper things that you

872
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 3: see from a lot of these things that we've alluded

873
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 3: to about Boba Sheet's defense at third base, like Horey Blankle,

874
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 3: like you, is this something you have to do with

875
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 3: the trade deadline? Getting a true corner infielder? Is it going?

876
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 3: Is it of course going to be getting more bullpen

877
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 3: like every team does.

878
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: Like this, This is gonna sound crazy to get right

879
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 2: for this?

880
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: Is this like the twenty fifteen David Wright obviously couldn't

881
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: play third at times towards the end of the year,

882
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling the greatest, wasn't the sharpest, had big moments

883
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: for us, But getting one of your rebay even just

884
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: play a little third base, get a bump, like is

885
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: that what's Is that something that they could be looking at?

886
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: Is that something they should be looking at?

887
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 3: Similarly, because this is coming down to the wire. Of course,

888
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: I think they're still going to negotiate if nothing happens

889
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: by opening day, but like if there's no resolution on

890
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: Freddie Peralta's like, do you go deep in for a

891
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 3: starting pitcher with one of your eyes set on the

892
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 3: rest of twenty twenty six seas and then also an

893
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 3: Iphoe was twenty twenty seven if that that happened, which

894
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 3: you stellt think it will, Like are you looking for

895
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 3: guys with team control? Like how there's going to be

896
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 3: very fun roster decisions of this team just because of

897
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 3: how Turbulent's entire roster is. No one's here for a

898
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: long period of time. We said it with two guys.

899
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: It's literally only the only guys under actual cont firm

900
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 3: contract past twenty twenty eight are Francisco Lindoor and Wan Solo.

901
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 3: This Bets roster has max flexibility to go in any

902
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 3: single way, especially because as we get to our last

903
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 3: question now, which is fun. One can't wait to track

904
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 3: this this season. This farm system is going to have

905
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 3: a big year. Where has to prove itself too. We're

906
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: graduating Nolan McLain and Carson Bench, two of not only

907
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: the best clearly the two best prospects in our team,

908
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 3: two of the best not even arguable I think ten

909
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 3: to twelve best prospects in all baseball. They both coming

910
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: his major league team there losing the rookieligibility together at

911
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: the same time. As long as Bench sticks with the

912
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 3: club through the first few months of the season. It's

913
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 3: now time for that next tier of prospects to kind

914
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 3: of assert themselves for Jonahan, hopefully the fine color consistently

915
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 3: and take a step forward. For the guys like Rhymer

916
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 3: and Clifford to be big bats and like be the

917
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 3: next Mets bats, position player corps then come forward and

918
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 3: or do those guys just get used in the biggest

919
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 3: trade that we're not thinking of that happens mid season.

920
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 3: Maybe that's you know, if Marcus Simian is not the

921
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: guy man, they're like, you know, whatever, can tell Marte,

922
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: let's go bring them in. Like I know he has

923
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 3: the trade stuff going on, but like, is that something

924
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: we're missing? Is there a player we aren't considering that

925
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 3: these guys could be used for Also at the same time,

926
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 3: and you mentioned it, who's next? Who's that next guy?

927
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: Because I have all the faith that there will be

928
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: someone and we talked about this with Matt Eddie, But

929
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: who's going to be the next McLean bench in this organization?

930
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,959
Speaker 1: Because as good as the depth is, you do still

931
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: need those guys to rise to the top. You don't

932
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: want to end up being a farm system that just

933
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: has a bunch of most major league.

934
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 3: Players, especially also because we got to see a lot

935
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 3: of these guys up close and personal this spring, like

936
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: Jack Wenzer and Aja Ewing look like they're actually quite

937
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 3: close to be major league Kyle with players like does

938
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: what if if something happens to the rotation and maybe

939
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 3: you know Mena goes down tong looks bad in triple A,

940
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 3: Like who knows? Maybe Tobias Myers is very vital in

941
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: the bullpens two with three inning guy like Jack Wendrick

942
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 3: gets shot the major leagues this year if something happens

943
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 3: to Louise Robert, which is like, oh, I can't believe

944
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 3: that guy would get injured? Like is aj Ewing guys

945
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 3: under consideration to possibly get the major league play appearance

946
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 3: this year? Like and those those guys to me are

947
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: like the two ones with tongue to be the next

948
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 3: number one over our prospect in the system. Or do

949
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: you like to one of these international guys like Wanda?

950
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 3: I can't get but I think someone's talking about having

951
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 3: an n A on that name. There's no NA in

952
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 3: the actual name on this as a S I G E.

953
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 3: N an. Maybe someone help us out in the comments

954
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: with that one, but same with aliam Pania, Like to

955
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 3: one of those guys take the big step like that

956
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: looks good. Santucci look nasty in that breakout game again,

957
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 3: still no data on it, sadly, but like even got

958
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 3: he likes Rondo, likes he playing second base? Is he

959
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: going to go tear up double a like as he's

960
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: playing second base? No center field? Cheez all right? I

961
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 3: was like, what I got my next ahead of myself

962
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 3: a mitchevoy, but like, who who becomes the next guy?

963
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 3: Because like we were starting to get again, Like we've

964
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: talked about cocky confident with this Mets system, so it's

965
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 3: kind of about not even acknowledging next guy's going to come,

966
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 3: but just being able to figure out who it is.

967
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's I guess the last big question, right

968
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 1: is who who's the next? Who are gonna get excited

969
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: about this year? And what's great is that if you're

970
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: subscribed to Mets Up and if you're listening to us

971
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts and Spotify, we talk about prospects all

972
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: the time here, so make sure you are subscribed, make

973
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: sure you're following us over there so you don't miss out.

974
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 3: I think that's it, James, right, We've got nothing else.

975
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,479
Speaker 3: We got ten, maybe soft twelve questions facing the Mets.

976
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: You guys, listen know down the comments section. What's your

977
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: biggest question for the Mets going into the twenty twenty

978
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: six season. Don't forget to subscribe, Don't forget to follow

979
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: us on podcast platforms. You can follow James on social

980
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: media at James Hiana. I'm draft deck Mark. Thank you

981
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: ys for watching. We'll catch you on the next one.

982
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: Peace out, paced guys,