Mets Free Agent FRENZY | Mets LOSE Diaz, What’s NEXT? | Alonso, Peterson, Marte, Suarez, Valdez Etc

Mets Free Agent FRENZY | Mets LOSE Diaz, What’s NEXT? | Alonso, Peterson, Marte, Suarez, Valdez Etc

fans. Even though I understand that’s probably rhetorical question because like you like me, I’m not doing great. We just lost our star closer in Edwin Diaz and now we’re just supposed to deal with that as if that’s okay and that’s normal. A guy who’s been leading the charge for us for the past half decade and the snap of a finger is now going to the backtoback World Series champions. I’m still not happy about it as you can see. But we’re going to break down more on not only the Mets losing Edwin Diaz, how we are reacting this as Mets fans, what David Sterns had or had not to say in regard to this, also regarding Devin Williams. Devin Williams speaking in the media a bit. We’re going to get into all these key remarks that we’ve seen through SNY at the winter meetings over the past, I would say, hour or two at the time of us getting in. But we of course are going to begin tonight’s show by getting into what is now next for this New York Mets team and what is technically day three even though night two of MLB winter meetings there in Orlando. The Mets just lost Sugar. So, what is next? Is Pete Allonzo on his way out too? Are they going to bring Pete Alonzo back? What is the latest on Alonzo status? We’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about some key guys that could fill the shoes at least to a degree of Edwin Diaz, even though we all know no one is as good as Sugar. We’ll talk about the abundance of options the Mets still have available in the free agent and trademark it to a degree. We’ll break down these individual players. We’ll get into the latest reporting as the Mets have been connected to obviously a vast array of pitchers and players and position players, you name it, throughout the start of the offseason until now, day two or day three, whatever you want to label it, of MLB winter meetings. A lot to get into in this one. And of course, we’re going to be answering plenty of your comments, questions, and concerns. So, do not hold back from sharing any and all of your opinions in this one and simply asking Wardy, you know, is this the end? And obviously, I’m joking as I say that, but those were the reactions that we were having at our live stream earlier today as we initially broke down that initial breaking news that Edwin Diaz is now an LA daughter. We also talked a bit there on Kyle Schwarber landing back with the Philadelphia Phillies on 5 years, 150 million. We’ll get into how that ultimately one way or another will impact one Pete Alonzo’s market moving forward. Is this good for the Mets and their chances to bring the polar bear back? Is it bad? We’re going to harp on all this and then some everybody. So continue to smash that like and subscribe button on on your way. Again, thank you guys so much once more for 36,000 subscribers. Congratulations to my guy John on being the latest jersey giveaway winner on the platform. Once we hit 37K, which is our next sub goal here, we will of course give away another brand new Mets jersey to one Lexi subscriber in a future live stream once we hit those milestones. We’ve g given away now I believe this will be our sixth jersey if not seventh that we have given away already this season. So, thank you so much everybody for the endless support here. And I understand these are trying times in Mets land. Like each and every one of you, I’m frustrated beyond belief. And while I of course do not want to necessarily pin everything on one person or another, I’m in constant confliction because on one hand, I am very frustrated and upset with Edwin Diaz. I understand why Edwin May’s decision, but it doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it as a fan. I most certainly not going to. And on the other hand, I say to myself, well, even if the best were willing to offer more money than what we initially thought for Edwin Diaz, if they were willing to at least match that offer, not more, you know, why couldn’t they go above and beyond? And that’s where you’re constantly caught with two ways of thinking. One which is that David Sterns has struggled to close deals since becoming Mets president in certain aspects, not all but certain. And the other aspect is that okay, while maybe Sterns is imperfect in that regard, the Mets are not going to bid against themselves either. So the idea that they would say throw out north of a 5-year contract to Diaz when he was not getting anything beyond three from any team is not how any rational baseball team operates. Then I think of the quote there from Freeman who leads the charge for the LA Dodgers as we know. I said this in my live stream earlier and I’ll say it again. You know, if you think rationally for every free agent you try to sign, you will always come in second place. And that loomed large today. And a part of me feels like, okay, the Mets deserve a heavy amount of blame from the front office. But the more I dissect and the more that we find out publicly that we’re going to break down further in tonight’s show and it’s abundantly clear Edwin Diaz, while yes, he would have liked the Mets to separate themselves from the Dodgers and a payday offering, what’s also true is that Edwin Diaz did not want to return to the New York Mets. If Edwin Diaz was stubborn and was absolutely with the mentality that he wanted to return the Mets, he would have never fielded offers to the same degree that he did this off seasonason, which was quite the contrary to what he did after his 2022 season with the New York Mets. Of course, we saw he had that big sit down with one Steve Cohen. And then before you know it, bam, Edwin Diaz is back on a record-breaking 5-year 100 plus million dollar contract. So now we see fast forward all these years later. Edwin opts out of his contract, looks for the again highest average annual value for a reliever in MLB history. He gets that. Not only did he get that from the Dodgers, but the Mets offered exactly that. It would have been a record-breaking contract, too. It was right around only a $3 million difference. And we do understand that was not the sole differentiator in Edwin Diaz staying in New York Met or leaving for the LA Dodgers. The LA Dodgers had something that unfortunately Mets fans we can’t compete with and that’s back-to-back World Series championships. That is an organization that has been fundamentally sound and how they’ve operated for the past 10 to 15 years. And that is something that the Mets are laing and hoping to build. But given the Mets continued lack of consistency, look at every single year that’s transpired with Edwin Diaz as a New York Met. What did the Mets do in 2019, albeit Edwin was part of the problem? Nothing. What did the Mets do in 2020 short season? Nothing. What did the Mets do in 2021 season? nothing. What the Mets do in 2022? Fail miserably after having a high and looking like the best team in baseball in the first half. Still finishing with over 100 wins. But who gives a rats you know what when you get curb stomped in Atlanta, lose the division, then further get curb stomped at home there against the San Diego Padres’s. 2023 comes around and bam, Mets don’t even make playoffs. 2024 comes around, the Mets have a magical run. Without a doubt, the most entertaining, the most electric run that the Mets have had with not only Edwin Diaz, but with the entire organization collectively under Steve Cohen. 2025 comes around, the Mets fail miserably. 13 plus games below 500 from mid June on this year. You can pinpoint and say that, oh, this person is the reason for why this happened. You could say that, oh, the abundance of injuries were the key factors behind this. You can of course go down the laundry list as to how we got here, but the fact of the matter is the Mets have not been a good team. They have nothing to flex. Only thing that they have to flex is their financial flexibility and their great assets. They don’t have anything that they can flex when looking at prior success. Nor they nor can they guarantee Edwin Diaz any greater than what the Dodgers can and continued success moving forward. Think about it. The Steve Cohen three to five year plan was to win a World Series. And in reality, the Mets have essentially had four their first five years under Cohen be losing years. And I do count 2022 as a failed losing season cuz the Mets when they had a lot of pieces working. They decide not to add depth. They decide not to bolster with another bat in the lab. They decide to go with Daniel Effing Vulgach, Darren Ruff, Tyler Nquin. What do all those players have in common? They have not been in Major League Baseball for over a calendar season. Okay. When you then look at what has happened since then for this Mets team, constant turmoil, a 2024 run that proved everyone wrong and understandably so and excitingly so. But even while the Mets had that magic, it quickly soured as we got into 2025. David Sterns made a know we’re going to break away this core group a little bit. We’re going to go in more of a different direction. While we would love for Edwin to return, Edwin needs to understand it will not look the same. So, while these were not monumental factors, it was reported from Mike Puma of the New York Post today that, you know, Edwin Diaz’s brother Alexis sharing his positive uh reaction to landing in the Dodgers organization and how they run things, as well as supposedly Edwin not at all being happy with the Mets parting ways with Jeremy Hefner as their pitching coach. Again, I’m not saying that these were the X factors, but these little things add up when unfortunately, and this is another thing Mets fans are not going to want to hear, but you need to hear it. I need to tell you the truth. Why did this happen the way that it happened? Edwin Diaz doesn’t need the bag the way that he previously did. If Edwin Diaz never got that big contract for the Mets after the 2022 season at 5 years, 100 plus million dollars, there’s a greater reality that he would be simply chasing the bag where the Mets could separate themselves. Fast forward all these years later, the the Mets put in a valiant effort to bring Edwin back. They give him right around the same contract offer. They were even willing to go farther. Yet, Edwin was not willing to circle back to the Mets because according to Anthony Do in a piece that came out just over the past 20 minutes or so, it was stated that supposedly Edwin was under the belief that the Mets would not be going much farther than where they were. So, he didn’t feel the need to circle back to them, but he still did not circle back to them. Point blank. So, when you have a Edwin Diaz who’s already been spoiled, has already been the most wealthy reliever in recent MLB history, a record-breaking contract that he got from Steve Cohen, and how do they repay him? by blowing his knee out first year in the WBC. Steve handles it perfectly. Of course, makes sure everything is covered. Not a problem. And he gives Edwin Diaz the best treatment imaginable to get him back to his elite self. And how does Edwin Diaz repay him? He opts out of his contract when he had two additional years. And he does not turn back to the New York Mets when they gave right around the same offer, not offer, if not had the potential to do it greater. Edwin saw success and he did not see it with the New York Mets. You saw it with the backto-back World Series champion team that he’ll now join where he does not need to be the guy by any stretch. Uh he very well could have a Tanner Scott 2025 season where he’s horrendous. Looks like he has a yips not even on the playoff roster and the Dodgers won’t care cuz they’ll still probably win the championship. All they do is to continue to add the rich get even richer in this sense sadly. And for the New York Mets, what they what have they been able to of course do all this time? It’s been flex their financial guns, flex their financial ability. But here’s where we reach a crossroads. Now, five years in with Steve Collins. Financial flexing can only take you so far when you have no success to back it. When you have no stability whatsoever, and when you have guys like Diaz who have already gotten their big payday. Edwin could have been more stubborn in trying to seek a 5-year deal longer in this market. But he settled three at still 23 million average annual value with around $4 million deferred per year with the LA Dodgers. But how can you fault him for wanting to be an LA Dodger? I don’t fault him for wanting to be an LA Dodger, but it tells us what we need to know about Edwin and the unfortunate realities that Edwin Diaz is not our guy anymore. If he want to be our guy, he would have been putting more of a valiant effort into wanting to actually stay with the New York Mets and not ring chase the way that he just did. And once more, I don’t follow him out at all for ring chasing, but it does tell us what we need to know about Edwin right now. Edwin is a guy that we were hoping was going to be a New York Met up until he retired. instead he’ll go down in history as one of my favorite relievers I ever witnessed and now I want nothing to do with because he joined the evil dark empire. That’s just the nature of the beast. That’s what this is. So obviously I’m not happy that Edwin Diazda didn’t return and obviously I’m very frustrated that you see a team as good as what we just saw and the LA Dodgers continue to get better as an organization. You don’t fault them for doing that. That’s what winning consecutively as a group will do for you. that high is I’m I can’t even imagine what that feeling is like to win a championship. And you’re constantly seeking that high year in and year out. That’s why the Dodgers will continue to be proactive. And that’s why the Dodgers will now not only be able to continue to spend, make proper trades, but they’re winning is now paying dividends and players wanting to go there, maybe taking slight pay cuts to go there or in the case of Diaz, you know, getting again pretty much what he was looking for from the Mets, but still going to LA in the end. Because what do LA has that the Mets don’t? That’s back-to-back World Series championships. That’s MVPs in what feels like almost every position, if not at least all stars at minimum. It’s a foreheaded monster of aces in their rotation, but is as deep as seven quality star pitchers. Then you get on to the fact I shouldn’t say necessarily star, but seven really quality pitchers. You have a bullpen that obviously has immense upside now with Edwin Diaz added to the mix where he does not need to be the guy. So, you mean to tell me that he can kind of chill, enjoy the weather half the season at least, enjoy being a part of such a historic organization? We’re witnessing in real time this version of the big bad Yankees back in the day a couple decades ago. This is the version of that with the LA Dodgers now. And for the Mets and Steve Cohen, they went with this plan when Steve Cohen first became owner that okay, we’re going to go out here and we’re going to be build ourselves to be the East Coast Dodgers. But the problem is is that the Mets have failed so miserably in that regard to find consistent success in their first five years under Steve Cohen that it’s come back to shoot them running in the foot. I I feel absolutely confident that Edwin Diaz would probably still be a New York Met right now if the Mets made playoffs this year, maybe had a similar run as they did a year ago, but they didn’t. The Mets were a terrible team that dragged their feet. Edwin Diaz was one of the lone bright spots in what was otherwise disgusting performance from the 2025 Mets. Injuries aside, and I say injuries aside meaning that I’m aware that the injuries were the key factor for the rotation, but it doesn’t change the fact that the Mets had ample opportunity to try to add. They didn’t add. They thought that teams were asking for too much of Kane’s ransom, but that conserviveness uh being too conservative rather also came back to hurt this Mets team. So, where my frustration lies more with someone like David Sterns, everybody, and we’re going to get to all your guys’ comments. I know we have donations that we got to get into in a lot of these things. My frustration with David Sterns right now isn’t even as much with how these negotiations went transparently. It has so much more to do with the fact of how we got to this point. That is where I’m frustrated with David Sterns most because if David Sterns did not look at this rotation entering the 2025 season like it was the best thing since sliced bread when in reality he had question marks into almost every single way that you turn and look with the exception of that being in one say David Peterson who was coming off of a fantastic 2024 season from June on and he of course fell off a cliff in the second half this year dealing with Moranny’s. We’re going to get into David Pearson because there is trade talks going on with David Pearson. We’re going to get into that. But my frustration certainly lies more with the Mets inability to be a more effective and proactive team in 2025, which has now led to the dispersing of not only the core, but now having core pieces deciding that they don’t want to be here because we don’t have the success to match a team like what the Dodgers can do. And I understand the Mets are not the only team that can’t match the Dodgers. Quite literally, no one can right now. But it doesn’t change the fact that when you look at how things are currently constructed, the Mets should have been in a better position by now for the money that they’ve spent. So Steve Cohen and David Sterns alike are still trying to navigate and figure out how is it how what is the best route to allocate these millions of dollars. And now that you have a farm that’s perfectly positioned to actually make big splashes, you need to go ahead and actually do that. That’s a very important thing. If you don’t go ahead and make splashes while you have the farm built to do so, we’re going to move marginally. And that’s going to be another year where we’re somehow acting surprised that the Mets don’t go anywhere and the Dodgers are on a three. Let me see what you guys got for me. I did see someone say real quick to check Haymon. So, I’m going to go ahead and do that. My four-part plan to help the Mets uh get back on track after their disastrous day. John Hammond is just sharing his opinion with this, but I will skim through real quick just to make sure if there’s anything notable in here that we need to make no note of that’s separate from the things that we have lined up in today’s discussion cuz we’re going to now get into in a second just a little bit more on Diaz. From there, we’re going to talk about the potential replacements for Edwin Diaz headlined by guys now of course not just Devin Williams who as of today according to David Sterns is going to be the Mets closer. But I would like to preface that how he was asked the question kind of put him in a position where you know yes Deon Williams is the closer today but it doesn’t guarantee that he’ll be the closer tomorrow if that makes sense. So I do believe that the Mets as currently constructed and what they are anticipating to do are more than likely going to have a bullpen next year that has Devin Williams get save opportunities but not have it be exclusive to Devin Williams. ing that should the Mets be able to sign a Robert Suarez, a Pete Fairbanks or trade for a Trevor McIll, a type that has high upside that can help you tremendously in the back end of your back end of your bullpen, you can then get creative as long as both those pitchers can handle the pressure in those big market circumstances. The way that Diaz so famously did and that’s why I’m so pissed off that he’s not a New York Met right now because that’s why these are such big shoes to fill. And while you can’t fail them fully, I think you can get creative, especially if you are not stubborn with having one sole guy be your closer because I think the Mets will fail should they go down that route with Devin Williams. Not that I don’t think that Deon Williams will have a good season because I do think he will. He said himself that New York this first year was just an adjustment period for him and what weighed on him a lot his first two months where he had a lot of bad uh lack of success with the Yankees was him figuring out his living situation and commuting to work. So, it was more logistic issues that became a problem for Devin Williams getting acclimated to the Yankees his first couple months, which inflated his RA for the entire season. I’m really not all that concerned with what Devin Williams can bring to this Mets team. But, as I said before, and I will say it again, I know a lot of you guys feel the exact same way. Letting Devin Williams is great and all, but it only means so much if you do not go ahead and land another quality, high upside reliever, star reliever type to pair with him. Because if you do that, then you of course have more flexibility in your bullpen. on, but you also don’t need to be contingent on Deon Williams to again be the guy for you. You can have a world where Devin Williams is your closer the next two nights and then you say have one of the other relievers that we’re going to rattle off in tonight’s live show as another fit for you. Let’s see see here. Jeff Jeb Pass provides some insight on Sports Center Tuesday night into what went wrong between New York. Okay. According to passing, the split between Diaz and the Mets started when the pitcher did not get a call giving him a heads up about the decision to sign reliever Devin Williams. Now, he’s a free agent, so perhaps that’s understandable, but he was not happy about that. Passen said about that report um about so he wasn’t happy that he wasn’t contacted ahead of time that they would be signing Devin Williams. But my question is, wh why does that matter if the Mets signed Devin Williams and Devin was very open to the idea of Diaz still being the closer and the Mets just still put in a very valiant effort to bring him back? So why does that matter if Diaz was still going to be the guy? That doesn’t make any sense to me. Pard my French kiddos, but that sounds like [ __ ] Genuinely, how does that make any logical sense? Why does that why would that be a fact? The only way that makes logical sense is if the Mets say signed Devin Williams without telling Edwin Diaz and then completely lowballed him from what they were initially going to do. That’s not what happened. I’m just that doesn’t make sense to me. Hold on everybody. You guys are telling me to look at the donations. Let’s Let’s get to some donations. Am I wrong for feeling that way though? Like I’m This is This is not me. This is not Let me make clear. This is not me trying to give this endless defense to Sterns or anything like that. I’m This is my genuine reaction. How would that have been a factor into the decision making here if Devin made it clear he was down to being whatever role that the Mets were cool with and the Mets were still heavily pursuing Diaz to be their closer again. That just doesn’t make sense. It’s really, really weird to me. That just really doesn’t make sense because on top of it all, Williams spoke to the media and he said how every other team that approached him approached him to be closer, but the Mets never specified that Williams would be closer with them. and he was open to being set up man for Diaz. This really just feels like it’s him having this remark come out one way or another for the sake of some type of narrative being spun. I I just again I don’t understand it. I really don’t. They are able to stomach at some point. You’re not going to be able to replace Edwin Diaz. Rosenthal has Cabrera news. Thank you. Okay. Edward Cabrera trade talk is heating up. Let’s go. I’m just double checking to make sure that the Mets name is not specifically in it, but that’s encouraging to see. Let’s see if um Edward Cabrera trade talk can actually lead to something. Come on, Mets. That would be amazing. Let’s see. He probably won’t go to the Mets, though. Yeah, nothing noted on the Mets front, just that the Orioles are among teams because the Orioles have been involved in every market right now. Frankie, thank you so much for becoming a membership member here. I really, really do appreciate that. But as we get into some more here on Robert Suarez, everybody, let’s go ahead and break it down because one thing to make note of in regards to Robert is that he throws absolute gas. He went just about 70 innings this past season, but he’s already entering his age 35 year. So even though he’s around 100, 101, they stopping on the gun that you guys see here. You just have to wonder how consistently dominant is someone like him going to be able to stay float as for me. I don’t know, right? But you also think, okay, if Diaz got three airs, there’s not a chance now Suarez gets more than three. And hopefully there’s reality where you could sign him to maybe just two or, you know, one year with a secondear option. Maybe that’s more of a player option or a mutual option. Um, but either way, you know, Suarez is a guy that you absolutely should be pivoting to if you’re the New York Mets and that’s what they’re doing right now. Now, do I think it’s the end of the world that he’s entering his age 35 season? No. Because we can see relievers dominate into the late 30s. Raldis Chapman is a prime example of exactly that. and Suarez has shown just how dominant he can continue to be. The velocity has not been an issue for the most part. So, as we expand more as to what the Mets would be getting in someone like Suarez beyond just the stats that you guys see down below with a sub3 year rate and 69.2 innings at 3.66 expected year rate, we’re looking at a right around 10k per nine to two walks per night. Did a very good job commanding the strike zone there. I need to get off of this scubble graphic quick. Just give me one second to do exactly that. Let’s pull some Robert Suarez. And I definitely want to hear from you guys in the poll that we have in the live chat right now. What route do you think is best for the Mets and how they should replace Edwin Diaz for this bullpen? Is it option A, signing one of Robert Suarez or Pete Fairbanks? Is it option B, trading for a quality reliever like a Trevor McIll who the Mets were recently tagged connected to as of yesterday? Or is it going to be say something else that you have in mind that you’d like to let me know in the chat down below, whatever the case may be. or do you think it’s multiple very good relievers but not great relievers? That’s I think the C option the poll. If it’s something along those lines, let me know in the chat right now everybody and thank you so much for that. Now Suarez is we what we see here unfortunately doesn’t have nearly as pretty of a baseball savant page as Edwin Diaz. But I just need to understand that unfortunately we’re not we we’re not going to get an Edwin Diaz again. You know, we may get a guy that’s close but we’re not going to get the same thing. Not 88% talent pitching room value, 97th in fast ball room value, seventh in off speed room value, but for context, you know, he threw his four seam 60% of the time, sitting 99 plus on the gun, touching 101, 102, change up, he was 24% of the time, sitting 91. And we saw the sink at 16% of the time, right around 99 plus. His expected year rate was above league average in the 66 percentile. His expected batt was right around league average there at expected batting average. His fast ball velocity was amongst the best in baseball at 79th percentile. It’s sitting right around 99. Average exit velocity, he did give up some solid exit velocity at 90.5 plus. Chase percentage well above league average 74th percentile. Whip percentage just below league average 39th percentile. K percentage 83rd percentile. Walk percentage 85th percentile. The barrel percentage 36. Hard hit percent percentage 31st. So again, more commonly with guys who throw gas like Suarez, but you know, might hang a pitch or two and bam, just like that, you’re going to find yourself getting barreled hard. Ground ball percentage 22nd cuz he’s not a ground ball pitcher. He’s a strikeout, he’s a strikethrower at 81st percentile and extension for the 6’2, 210 pounder. So given the current market shape up, knowing that there aren’t like a laundry list of options in the free agent class right now, it makes sense that the Mets are obviously actively involved in Suarez’s mark in particular. And I’m a absolutely more than fine with bringing him in to pair with Devin Williams. And just like that, Robert Suarez, Devin Williams, AJ Mentor, Brooks Raleigh, not bad at all, but you need to still add so much more. Like in in my opinion with that, you still need to bring back like a Tyler Rogers. And I would still try to go after a lefty that has more velocity for this bullpen. And that might be someone that you have to look for via trade more than say someone in the fringe market depending on what’s currently available out there. uh you know AJ Mter is not expected to be ready for the Mets necessarily by the start of spring or so and when you also look at Brooksley like these are two guys are soft tossing righties yes they can have success and yes you do not need velocity per se to have success but I think it’s imperative that the Mets are going to try to build this bullpen to the best of their ability now that Edwin Diaz is gone you need to make sure that you bring in various types of arms that can really get creative and that for examples you know not only having guys with great stuff and velocity but It’s good to have a guy that can be, you know, a soft tossing lefty, you know, topping 91, 92, but so crafty with his off speed and breaking pitches, that doesn’t matter. And then to have someone so contrasting like Gregory Sodto was throwing that high velocity for the Mets this year when we trade for him. Looked great his first north of 10 outings and then he looked absolutely horrendous. So I don’t necessarily want to see the Mets go down the Gregory Soda route again. And I hope that they can somehow someway find a quality lefty out there that actually makes more sense with velocity, control, and obviously his dominance for this Mets bullpen. Um, let’s see. Doing damage control on Sterns. There is no damage control being spoken about here. I’ve already we’ve already continued to talk about all the aspects of what’s been going on between the Mets losing Edwin Diaz. And the key factor of all is that Edwin Diaz wanted the LA Dodgers. And this is something that I don’t understand why it’s so hard to grasp for Mets fans, but I understand we’re just frustrating the moment. So that I understand. What I do not understand is why you guys can’t see the writing on the wall when you have one team that has a piss poor track record of success versus another team that’s backto-back World Series champions that doesn’t need to sell you on anything. The Mets need to sell Diaz. And if the Mets didn’t have the money, Diaz would have never even went back to them after the 2022 season. This is far less about, you know, oh, you know, the Mets have great hospitality and all this nonsense. No, Diaz returned the Mets after his breakout year in 2022 because the Mets offered him the most effing money, over $100 million across 5 years of record-breaking contract. Fast forward a couple years later, Diaz is looking to rewrite the market again in average annual value, but he’s also looking to get a specific contract that should the Dodgers reach, and they did, that he would be comfortable and not circle back to the Mets, even while the Mets still had interest in trying to bring him back more versus what their latest offer for him was. And that offer at a $3 million difference, I assure you, was not the sole factor in the decision-making for Edwin Diaz. Not a chance in hell. Not buying that for one single second. It has to do with the fact that the Dodgers have the track record. They have the success and they have everything the Mets don’t. That’s consistency. What they’re winning. Diaz has went through so much turmoil in the Mets uniform and a lot of it hasn’t been justified or warranted. It makes sense why he wants out. You guys are cracking me up in the chat. You are. But all right, guys. There’s Robert Suarez. One final thing on Suarez before we get on and talking more on Pete Fairbanks. We’re going to talk on Trevor McIll. We’re going to talk about what’s happening on the latest with Pete Alonzo. We’ll also get into the trade talks regarding Starly Marte, David Peterson. All that is what we’re going to hammer home in tonight’s show and answer anything else that’s happening in Metsland or across Major League Baseball that’s notable for us to get into. And yes, there are rumblings on the front of David Pearson. Breaking news. Mets locked up Vulga back to five years, $100 million. Who needs Schwarbo when you got Hogy Vogy on a fiveyear hund00 million piece? Am I right or am I right? Were you Would you support a package for hater or a Brayu? I don’t see the Mets trading I don’t see David Sterns trading for for Josh Hater. That would be quite the sight. Um Abrau I could get behind. Yeah, but hater I just I don’t see that happening. I would like hater for sure, but I don’t see that happening. Can you imagine? Could you imagine David Stern’s the same man who traded Hater away to make Devin Williams his closer a couple years ago for Milwaukee, then trades for hater from the like that would be actually insane. No, I I don’t see that happening. No way. Luke Weaver is out there, too. Yep. And Luke Weaver is someone I could definitely see them at signing as a reliever option for them. Not to be the Edwin Diaz replacement, but to be a part of the puzzle and what they’re building for their bullpen. And I don’t hate that idea, truthfully. Um, let’s see. 69 innings pitch. We just talked about that regarding what we got in Robert Suarez this past season. The year before that, we saw him 65 innings um just over 8K per night or 2.2 walks per nine, 2.7, a 3.05 expected year. The year before that in 2023, he only pitched in 27 innings due to injury. Had inflated four RA, but a 3.2 expected year at his first season that he came out onto the major league level coming over from the Palm Pro Baseball League for the previous four years. and he torched the Mets when we faced him too entering playoffs. Robert Suarez 47 innings 11 and a halfk per nine his rookie year there at the age of 31 mind you almost a four walks for nine and a 2.27 RA and a 3.27 27 expected race. So, he’s been pretty steady with his productivity and what he’s done so far um at the major league level. So, I would say that the Mets would know pretty confidently in what they’re getting in Suarez. The only I think asterric there is with Suarez is twofold. It is still a his age to a degree because you got to hope that there isn’t a massive dip anytime soon as velocity or anything like that because he’s a power pitcher. And two, it’s also when you look at the fact that how has he how is he going to handle the big market? You know, Devin Williams just went through that adjustment period his first couple months with the Yankees this past year before he settled down greatly in the second half. If Robert Suarez at all looks like a guy who’s scared of his own shadow that can’t handle a big market in New York after being in San Diego, it’s a very different vibe, very different element there. That holds true and we get kind of a Ryan Helley situation again, then we’re really in trouble. So, this is again more of the cause for concern why the Mets are in such a pickle after losing Edwin Diaz. There are attributes to Diaz and his game that you can’t just immediately replace in confidence. You can of course be calculated about your decisions and hope that those decisions come to fruition, but even when you have all the calculations you think correct, it doesn’t ne necessarily immediately lead to success. Cough this past traded line with Ryan Helley in particular. So yeah, it’s it’s interesting to say the least on what is ahead now for the Mets, but the one thing that we do know is that the Mets are connected to multiple top reliever options between the free agent and trade market. And now that we broke down Robert Suarez, let’s go ahead and break down the next player in tonight’s discussion. And that is going to be the one who, like I said, I like. I just don’t love because Buddy gets his numb fingertips in cold weather. It’s very bizarre. and you don’t want that necessarily when you’re going to be pitching cold climates at the start and the end of the season. Pete Fairbanks though is definitely an attractive pitcher to a degree. And let’s go ahead and break down more on Fairbanks, everybody. So, let’s start with Fairbanks and let’s get into his career numbers that we’ve seen this point. As you guys can see down below there, he’s coming off of a very good year for the Tampa Bay Rays. But there’s something very notable that I’ve pointed out with Fairbanks. It’s not to say that this is going to be an issue for him in the next couple years wherever he signs. But what I do think is that for Pete Fairbanks, you know, you go from being north of like a 13 strikeout per nine pitcher to now not even touching nine strikeouts per nine, close to but not even touching that technically each of the past couple years. Um, one does have to wonder, you know, the Rays are willing to, you know, not bring back their guy because they’re one great with their pitching development. We know this. They’re not going to spend big on like anyone. But I just look at this track record of Fairbanks going from, you know, 2020 Shortan season, 26 innings, 13K per nine. 2021 roughly 12K per nine. 2022 14K per nine. 2023 13 1/2K per nine. The walk rates fluctuated those years. But since then, he has settled down a lot with his caper eye, but his walk rates have been a bit more respectable. 3.38 this past season and then 2.69. And he had that insane season in 2022 where that’s like Edwin Diaz dominant. 14K per nine, a 1.1 walks per nine, a 1.13 year rate, and a one expected year. Literally a magical season, but it was only in 24 innings. So, we take that with a a grain of salt. You know, Pete Fairbanks is coming off of a season where he had the largest workload in his entire career. So, when you look at a 2.83 year and a 3.04 expected year, what do you say to yourself across 60 six innings? You say, “That’s not bad.” Then you see the home run rate at just over one and you don’t love that and you hope that that doesn’t increase but rather the Mets can get to decrease a little bit next season and Fairbanks is a big body if I’m not mistaken he’s a 6’6 again towering frame of right-hander I’m a crafty pitcher but for me again where my greatest issues lie with Fairbanks is that he’s been in a very small market his entire career he’s a product to the Rays not that you can’t be good going from the Rays to the Mets because Brooksley has something to say about that but knowing that you’re still going from small market to big market and knowing that you have that fingertip issue that pushes me most away. Like he’s not my personal favorite out of the group right now. Let’s see. Sterns is paying you, Wardy. I wish I wish it would. I assure you that David Sterns is never going to pay me a dime for the amount of times I slandered him live in postgame coverage and in regular live stream coverage throughout the season. Not going to happen. As much as you guys may go out of your way to make your stupid comments about being me being a shell and this and that, I assure you that I’m far from it. Okay? I talk more down on the team that I love throughout the course of the season typically than I do uplift them because I’ve watched more incompetence with baseball performance than I have success. So when you cover every single game from mid June on in of the year after covering every game prior, go from the best team in baseball to literally one of the top four worst, um it hits you like a truck and you don’t hold back. And my emotions have been all over the place this year. We’re covering the team if you guys know a thing or two at me. If this is not your first rodeo here, Fairbanks, here’s what we got. 61st percentile in pitching run value, 79th in fast ball run value, a 48th in breaking run value, 37th in offsp speedr run value, 87th in expected year, 77th in expected b average, 90th in fast ball velocity, well below league average that we see there in average exit velocity, 57th in chase percentage, 57th in whip percentage, 61st in k percentage, 63rd in walk percentage, 93rd in barrel percentage. That is impressive. I do like that. even though he he gave up a good amount of a average exit velocity, he wasn’t barreled at all. So kind of bizarre when you look at it from that sense. Then you look at 29th in hard hit percentage, 68th in ground ball percentage, and 54th in extension. So again, Fairbanks, he’s another consolation prize. Um, you know, if you lose out on someone like Diaz, which the Mets unfortunately have, I don’t think he is the worst option for the New York Mets, but I have more reservations with Fairbanks to a degree than I do I truthfully I would say I have more reservations with someone like him than I do Suarez because Suarez I like power pitchers. I want the Mets to get a power pitcher now, especially because of the fact that they don’t have Edwin Diaz anymore. I would like them to supplement that. If you can’t and you only go for soft tossers, it’s usually going to come back to bite you. I just there’s rightful concern if you don’t fill a void to a certain degree of what you’re losing with Edwin Diaz. But to expand a little bit more regarding Pete Fairbanks, everybody, I definitely want to hear from you guys now watching it live on a replay. Your opinions on Fairbanks. Apologies if the audio is just running there from these highlights. If this thing could let me click on it the way I needed to. Okay, there we go. Hold on everybody. Me go ahead and do one more thing here. Everything’s running really hot on my end, but I know why. Okay. Okay, we should be a little bit better now. Let’s go ahead and move this Fairbanks. I don’t care. And we’re get someone. Let’s take a look at the chat right now. What is the preference from you guys regarding these pictures? Let’s get into it. Robert Suarez or Pete Fairbanks out of almost a thousand votes so far. And thank you guys also to our roughly a thousand concurrent viewers. Continue to smash that like and subscribe button if you guys are enjoying the coverage covering all things New York Mets, especially now what is next for them after losing Edwin Diaz. If you guys could help us get to our next short-term goal in the chat of 250 plus likes, I’d be greatly appreciated. Everyone chiming in. Trevor McIll or someone else via trade 32%. We got 12% of multiple very good not great arms. than 9% of other and that’s where I told you guys to go ahead and comment in the chat. So, a good chunk of you guys like Robert Suarez and I find myself in that category as well among the options that we we now are facing given that Edwin Diaz is sadly not an option for this team. So, again, Fairbanks, don’t hate him. I don’t think that he would be the worst fit for this organization by any stretch. I just I have my levels of concern. That’s some nasty nasty drop that he has on his pitches, too. So, we’ll see. Obviously, um the type of impact these guys will have. I like the fact that he’s another power pitcher as well if I didn’t state that with Fairbanks. He can throw hard. There’s He has such a very interesting release point. So, look at how he throws. He He throws like someone that shouldn’t be dotting and throwing as hard as he does. I know he’s a big frame, but the way that the ball comes out of his hand, oh, it’s kind of deceptive. And I know that this is also terribly laggy right now, so it’s not helping anything. I apologize. But now, let’s go on from talking about Pete Fairbanks to getting into a pitcher that I also really like and he may have more upside here. Um, and he’s around the same age as Fairbanks. He actually might be a year older than Fairbanks, but he is younger than Robert Suarez, but he’s pretty new when it comes to just now blossoming into being a dominant reliever in Major League Baseball, and that is the towering 6’8. Yes, taller than Pete Fairbanks is 6’6 or so. We’re here to talk about one, Trevor Miguel. Because Trevor Miguel, everybody, has been connected to the New York Mets as of last night. Joel Sherman of the New York Post. And what was state is that the Mets are not only in the market for Freddy Peralta, who we all would have loved in this rotation, but they also really like Trevor Miguel. And it makes sense. Listen, the Mets know Tyler very well. I’m sure they’ve been relayed information plenty as to how Trevor is as a pitcher. And I mean, his stuff speaks for itself. He has one of the nastiest knuckle curves in baseball. And he has a fast that consistently sits 98 to 100 plus on the gun. That full 6’8 frame he takes full advantage of. And he has looked brilliant for the Brewers as pretty much that closer spot role. know the guy who stepped up now that Devin Williams was no longer there this past year and would kind of be insane if the Mets 2026 bullpen is the former star closer for the Brewers under the David Sterns regime and the man who essentially was helping replace him this past year after they traded him and his walker to the New York Yankees. So this is one of those things where yes, I know you guys may hate may say, “Hey, I hate David Sterns. I don’t like him. I feel this about him. That’s just how I feel.” Well, this is a circumstance where I actually like that David Sterns has a little bit of connection with Milwaukee here to try to make a move like this happen. Because if there was any trade that I think is logical right now in the offseason, like what is more feasible to happen than others? I think a trade with Milwaukee does make a level sense. The Mets have all the assets to make it happen. I would love Scooble obviously, but the jury is still out as to if that can really even be had knowing that the cost is so pronounced that while the Mets have all the assets in my opinion to make it happen. We don’t know what’s happening in those rooms right now. We don’t know what’s happening in those discussions. But what we do know is that the Brewers would like to shed payroll again. There’s so many suitors for both Freddy Peralta and Trevor McIll. The Mets are among those teams. The Yankees are in these markets as well. But Trevor McIll feels like the kind of guy that could come in, light the lamp on fire, and be a fantastic onetwo punch with Devin Williams. Now, there’s one thing in particular that I don’t like about Trevor Miguel, and it’s not anything that he did inherently wrong. It’s just more so the fact that he does not have the track record nearly to the same degree as some other reliever options out there. He’s only been a very good reliever in baseball for just a couple seasons now. He was cut that we saw from the Minnesota Twins a couple years ago, DFAD. Brewers pick him up and they of course make him the best uh best things in sliced bread, but he’s a guy that doesn’t have the track record, nor does he have the consistency in innings to make you feel comfortable that oh, we not only lost Edwin Diaz, but Trevor McIll is a replacement. There’s a lot of upside with Miguel, and I think he’d be a nice out of the bullpen, but it’s still a tall task to try to essentially lose Diaz and have him be that replacement in said pen. There’s a lot more uncertainty there. As much as I like Trevor, and as much as I’d hope that he’d be able to handle New York, knowing that Tyore, his brother, can obviously guide him in the right direction there as someone who’s been with his team more often than not, if it wasn’t for Tyur being down with injury to begin next season, he always wiggles and finds himself away onto this Mets rotation due to injuries and due to him having good spring training performances and a good first couple starts of the year at least. So, Trevor Miguel is an interesting option for the New York Mets. again a 2 and 1/2 year ray in 50 games but 47 innings this past season is just over three expected year rate 11 and a halfk per nine or 3.2 walks per night a very solid k to walk ratio. Uh but now as we continue on here let’s get into a little bit more on his numbers and go on from there master. I know that’s everything that I keep thinking when I keep seeing your comments. It’s just more the same nonsense. Let’s go ahead into this one and let’s break down more on Trevor McIll. Thank you guys also for the donations. I greatly appreciate that. I will get to them as soon as I possibly can. I just want to finish my point here on Trevor McIll. I’ll answer some comments and then we’ll go on from there. Okay, there we go. As I was saying, Pittsburgh Pirates signed Gregory Sodto. We were just talking about Gregory Sodto and saying how I was not looking for the Mets to bring Gregory Sodto back. And I stand by that. I want the Mets to add a lefty of velocity the way that Sodto can provide, but I did not want them to bring him back for next season. I I I I did not love what I saw with him. He looked good. Then I was like, h I’m over it. Like, I think the Mets can upgrade there. And I still stand by that. Sodto kind of strikes me as a um smaller version of when they acquired Raldis Chapman a couple years ago on that one-year contract after the Mets tried to land Chapman. It was entering the 2024 season if I’m not mistaken. His Chapman was with the Pirates in the first half, then he was Trey the Royals in the second half, then he was with Boston last year. We know he was just so damn good with Boston last year. Um, but let’s talk a little bit more on Trevor McIll, then I will get to your comments gladly, everybody. But yes, the latest breaking news across Major League Baseball is that former Mets and Orioles and Phillies and trying to think what the other team was that Gregory Stood used to be on. Was it the Royals? Whatever the case may be, Gregory Stoodto, who’s been on a c a couple teams by now, he’s now landed with the Pittsburgh Pirates on a one-year just over $7 million contract. As you guys can see here with McGill, here are the numbers. Again, just doesn’t have the stability of a track record. He’s again coming off of a career-high 47 inning sample size. That’s not bad, but you need more there. The Mets would need to supplement more. Obviously, not bad numbers for Grill. Listen, 2.72 RA last season, 2.8 expected RA. His first year in Milwaukee, 34 innings, 13 and a half K nine, three walks per nine, three and a half RA, 3.2 expected RA. There are plenty of things to like there, but the juryy’s still out as to one if the Mets are really going to go out of their way to try to make a blockbuster like this happen with the Brewers where it’s McIll and Peralta or is this kind of just where there’s more smoke because these are guys that make logical sense for the Mets to pivot towards but in reality they’re just going to sign some guys in the market and let that be that. I don’t know. But if you’re asking for my opinion out of the pitchers that we talked about, I arguably like Trevor McIll the most, but I think Robert Suarez is the best certainty in what we’d be getting. So I think in order out of the three that we just broke down, personally, I would like it to be Robert Suarez one, Trevor Miguel 2, Pete Fairbanks three, in my personal opinion as to how I evaluate them and who I think’s better than not for this team. I’ll be more than I’ll be happy with either of the three, but if you’re asking for an order, that’s the order I’m going with. So, sources say the Mets and Starly Marte have mutual interest in a reunion. So, let’s talk about this briefly, everybody, because I’m not like overly shocked to see this. Um, when I started the offseason and we did our video on the five Mets and what returned, I believe I had Marte in that discussion. But once we learn a little bit more as to just how much Wanoto appreciated Marte this past year and how Marte was really the player that had him get him out of his com comfort zone in a lot of ways to adjust the Mets that right away in my opinion at least felt like it was more clear that if there’s any level of interest that Marte will come back and Stanley Marte in a limited role in a more limited role that he’s ever been in his career is more than fine with me. I just don’t want Mart if he’s a guy that’s expected to get consistent starts or consistent reps at DH. I don’t want him at all then truthfully because nothing personal against Mart but he’s entering his age 37 season. He gave us nine home runs, three four RBI, seven stolen backs, 270 average, 335 on base, 410 slug, a 10 12% above league average as a batter. 98 games, 329 play appearances, facing mainly left-handed pitching, sometimes ready, though we do understand that Marte is more valuable not with what he brings to the team offensively, but what he brings in team morale for Juan Sodto, who Sodto said verbatim is the leader, like is the true captain of this team. and he was the enk and it was on record through Dja Thoar’s fantastic article that she dropped right at the end of the season um for the New York Mets and how they wrapped up their year and stating how when many people were shying away from going up and approaching Juan Soda when he first landed with the New York Mets maybe out of fear or out of intimidation whatever the case may be Marte was the man who said no you know I’m going to go right in there I’m going to go mess with him right away I’m going to go joke with him right away I want him to get comfortable and acclimate past because we should be a tight-knit unit. We should be a community together and that is what he tried to do his best to help Wan Sodto realize throughout the year and that supposedly only got better and better. So, I know yes, the Mets lose Edwin Diaz, but at least we’re going to get Stley Marte back in a consolation prize. Cue the effing sarcasm. I realize that. But nonetheless, Ed, uh, pardon me, Stley Marte, if the Mets sign him and they’re content with him being more so like strictly off the bench for pinching roles, late game replacements there, or if you have to have him at DH every once in a while, I can live with it, but not someone that I at all want to get want to see get 329 player appearances next season. Like, truthfully, I don’t want to see Mart get more than like two 250. Like, I I do not want to see him get much playing time genuinely. like cuz and I understand that might not seem like it’s the best fit for the organization cuz you want to maximize the bench flexibility, but Mart is someone that has that similar connect to this team in a way that JD Martinez did when he was here a couple years ago where JD of course we don’t really look at him and say how great of an offensive season he had for the Mets because that was far from it. It was his final season in the major leagues. But what he helps as being a guidance for Mark Ventos and really bringing the team together and being that veteran voice to amplify Carl Mendoza to let David Sterns know, hey, we should call Jose Glacius. He’s a glue guy. And I know this from my years of experience. Like those are factors I think are so important that having a veteran brings to the club. And the Mets have shown how valuable it is and how much they have to lose if they do not have the right clubhouse culture involved. So Marte is part of the problem and not pardon me. If Marte is part of the solution and not the problem, I have no problem with him returning to the New York Mets for next season on a one-year deal and then hire him to be like again your first base coach or something like that after the fact. You know, I I could see him sticking around the organization, especially knowing that Sodto isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. It feels almost inevitable that something along those lines is going to happen. Um, but I definitely want to hear from you guys in the live chat right now. Charlie Marte, if the Mets bring him back, is that something that you’re down for that you’re fine with to come back in a very limited bench role where he’s facing solely, for the most part, left-handed pitching and pinch heading situations. Every once in a while, you’ll see him maybe get a start there at the DH position. Not someone that you need in the outfield unless just injuries galore happen and you’re absolutely cooked and you’re down. You’re 37y old veteran. But I’m curious where you guys stand on the front on the Mets having mutual interest in trying to bring Strong Marte back. No, because it’s a rebuild. The Mets aren’t in a rebuild. I don’t know why you guys are going to try to pull that. Uh I if you want me to explain what a rebuild is, I can. But I think anyone who’s actually throwing that out there knows what that means. They just choose not to understand that. Um let’s see. Mart’s a soda whisperer. We are effed. Let’s see. Now we’re bringing Marte back. It gets from bad to worse. Marte Parte says, “Telling the chat.” Let’s see here. Hell no, says Juan Papo. Gota gotta love the the differences of Mets fans in the chat. H cracking me up. Guys, do you not understand the difference between the terms rebuild and retool? A rebuild is when you tear all key assets off your roster and start from the ground up again. A retool is when you build around key assets that you still have in your organization on both the offensive and pitching end accordingly. Please understand the terminology here because if you don’t, it’s fine. But you should know the difference now. It’s a retool, no doubt, but that was always going to be the case as we entered this off seasonason. What? You thought the Mets weren’t going to retool and break up the core a bit after losing this year the way that they did. Regardless as to who’s more at fault than others, the Mets could not justify running back with the same team again. It was not going to happen. And that’s what I find a little fascinating about about the Phillies going 5 years 150 for Schwber. Are they going to be able to find trade sooners for guys like Costiano, Alec Bone, um Brandon Marsh? I’m not entirely sure. What’s the over under that Coins Casino opens before the Mets win a World Series? That’s a good question, but if I had to venture to guess, I’d say there’s a stronger likelihood of truthfully, I think there’s a stronger likelihood as of now, of the casino opening, which is not until 2030 in June, might add, than the Mets winning World Series. And that’s not that I don’t want the Mets World Series. It’s just like I have no clue. So, I’m not going to act sit here and act like I do. Nor do I have any right to act cocky as a Mets fan. Like we have nothing to be cocky about. Far from it. Mets signing Preston Tucker. So not Kyle Tucker, but who his brother Preston? Is that is that what’s happening now? What are you guys yapping about this time? So that’s what we got in Sterling Marte. So now going on for Marte, let’s go ahead and talk on the David Pearson front. Give me one second, everybody. Of course, this thing’s glitching out on me. Why do you have to glitch out on me like this, you schmuck? All right, guys. So, from Will Salmon of the Athletic in the trade market, Mets lefty starter David Pearson is generating some interest. League sources said in theory could be a need for need kind of candidate, but asking price is believed to be high. How high is a David Pearson asking price? Oh my god, we have children in the chat. That’s the worst. You know who you are. Thank you guys also for helping us get to our next short-term goal of 350 likes here in the live chat. I appreciate it. I really do. H that was just that was just heinous to look at. You got you guys know what I’m talking about in the chat. Um, let’s talk about this article here from Wol Salmon of the Athletic today talking about trade interest in David Pearson because I was saying for a while now that I really do believe that Kodi Sanga is the most feasible to be traded. I still stand by that even though I know Michael Marino threw a little cold water on what his market’s looking like as of yesterday. But there still seems interested. I just wonder how much of Sanga one not wanting to be traded and two um having the ability to veto trades to 10 different teams is factoring in at all to the Mets not being able to get a trade done for S. I’m not entirely sure, but what I am sure of is that Kodi, who we were just talking about there, is someone who while he has trade value, there is clearly a level of trade value in David Pearson. And Peterson’s an interesting one to evaluate for me because when you look at guys who’s been able to provide more innings, when you look at guys who have been a bit more consistent, Peterson has fell in that category, at least he was until we found ourselves really from June onward this season. So like SA, we saw him fall off a cliff, but it wasn’t due to injury as it was handling the most innings he’s ever had to handle in his career before. So that is where I think we saw Peterson really have his greatest demise this season. But beyond that, there’s no denying that of most recent history, he’s been a very solid pitcher for us. And this is what the article goes on to say on the front of David Pearson. Everybody, we’re going to relay. We’re going to read this together. And then we’re also going to go ahead and break down more on Pearson’s numbers. All right guys, from old seminar of the athletic in what Mets president baseball operations David Sterns has described as a pretty active trade market left-hander David Pearson is generating interest according to league sources. The Mets are open to moving the 2025 All-Star if they could find the right fit and need for need to pardon me, right fit and need for need type trade similar to the one they made earlier this winter in swapping Brandon Nemo for Marcus Simeon. So, as we continue on here, the Mets are in the market for an outfielder to replace Nemo as well as first baseman, designated hitter, and relief out. Given Pearson’s production over the last two season, last two seasons and his affordable salary in 2026, the Mets hold a high asking price for the starter. The Athletic have previously reported that New York was fielding trade calls and multiple starting pitchers. Much of the speculation since has centered on Kodi Sena. Peterson however represents a different kind of trade candidate than the riskreward option in SA. His ceiling might not be as high as Sanga who earned Sion votes in 2023 but he still obviously holds value and has been fairly reliable for the mats that we’ve seen over the past couple years. Now the 30-year-old is entering his final season of his team control and he’s projected to make six and a half or so million this year. Um Pearson as we know did struggle in the down the stretch he had himself a 8.83ear 83 year ray over his final eight starts of the season which were dreadful. Um that raises the array on the season of 4.22 but overall he was solid and we saw him put up a productive year. So David Peterson there’s a couple things I got to say. Peterson kind of likes SA is not just someone you trade for the sake of trading. However, absolutely if you can find a proper suitor for Sanga where if maybe the Mets are able to get a really really good upside reliever and the Mets are planning to address this rotation and fill the void of Pearson seamlessly by say signing a Michael Kane by trading for a Peralta for going ahead and signing a Tatsua Eay or Frammer Valdez. So I know um Martino threw cold water on today that we’ve seen Haymon as as well. But until those markets really materialize, I I’m not really going to go ahead and and believe anything right now because a lot of these people that are reporting that, oh, the Mets are feeling this way about this are the same people that had literally nothing on Edwood Diaz going to LA. And we’re firmly confident that Diaz is returning to the Mets. So again, this is why while we appreciate reporting and I think it’s important to weigh it, a lot of it we take it with a grain of salt or we just understand that it very well can have a short shelf life of only a couple hours with how quick and how things can change, especially in the time of year in winter meetings. But I definitely want to hear from you guys in the comments down below if there is a route for the Mets to trade Peterson and add to this team need now. Whether that is for a a DH, B for a quality reliever with upside as a closer, or c an outfielder type where he could help factor in like he I don’t see him making sense for the Red Sox, but it’s just speaking hypotheticals, trading him as part of a deal to hopefully get like a Woolly Breu type, like something along those lines or calling the Cleveland Guardians and being like, “Hey, can we take Steven Quan from you?” like is that something that would make sense for this club that they would have interest in? I don’t know exactly the route that they would go down. Should they trade him? I’m just spitballing these ideas now as we kind of figure them out together. Um, let’s see what you guys have to say for me. Are you guys for or against David Pearson potentially being traded this off season? Any more any more updates on the source? We h we’ve had a lot of updates from the sources. We have and a lot of things I can’t share right now. Some things I’ve been happy about and other things I have not been happy about transparently. Really has depended on what exactly it is. So this was from earlier as you guys can see the Kyle Schwarber known offers and this was from Ken Rosenthal. The Orioles offered Kyle Schwarber 5 years 150 million. The Reds went 5 years 125. The Pirates went four years 120. And I did hear that not only did the Mets offer three years over 100, but I also did hear that the Mets offered four years at just under 150 which helped push this to a 5-year contract. and the Orioles matched, but of course Schwber as long as he was getting the money he was looking for, was going to in fact be landing with the Philadelphia Phillies again. So, one team in particular sticks out a little bit more here. And the Red Sox stick out, but they’ve always stuck out. So, like, as I’ve stated, if Alonzo does leave the New York Mets, I hope he is a Boston Red Sox because that’s a team where I can still root for him. I don’t have to completely hate him for making that decision. And I know it’s probably more so because the Mets not wanting to go to the years for Alonzo, which I don’t agree with, and I’ll make that on record abundantly clear. I do if there’s a world where the Mets lose Allonzo over a one or two-year difference, I’m going to crash out and lose my mind because unless you just unless you find a way to properly replace that power in this lineup. It’s a terrible look. It is a terrible sell to this fan base as we head into next season because you’ve already lost Diaz and you trade away Nemo. key pieces to this team’s puzzle. Even though I will say that doesn’t necessarily mean that these pieces were going to lead us to championship. Both things can be true. The Baltimore Orioles are fascinating to me. And here’s why. The Orioles offering 5 years 150 matching that offer is telling that they have money to spend for a big slugger. Now, what we can hope for is that how they evaluated Schwber is not in the same light of how they value Alonzo. And this is something that Alonzo is still trying to come to grips with. And we’ll see if the market does go in his favor cuz right now I’m not sure if it does at the moment because we hear Scott Boris say, you know, adamantly today to the media how Alonzo obviously believes he’s very deserving of a longerterm contract than Kyle Schwarber is entering his age 33 season. But here’s the problem. Kyle was a hotter demand and commodity in this year’s class because even though he doesn’t have defensive value, he doesn’t shy away from it. He knows he’s a full DH for the most part through and through. He knows he’s a fantastic slugger. And what does Schwber have that Allonzo doesn’t? It’s the ability to bat from the left side. And in today’s MLB, there is more value that most teams in baseball can agree upon with power from the left side than there is power from the right side. And it’s it comes down to simple math. There are more more right-handed pitchers in today’s game than lefties. So, you’re more so at an advantage if you have a power lefty in your lineup instead of having solely relying on righty power. And this is not that a guy like Alonzo can’t perform well against both lefties or righties because we know he can. He’s had reverse splits for many seasons in his career where he can’t hit lefties, bizarrely enough. But the point here is that even though Allonzo’s a couple years, say two two and a half years younger than Schwarber, it reaches a moot point when you understand how they actually are valued in this market. And this market deemed Kyle Schwber a very attractive profile coming off of a great year. 56 home runs, 130 RBI’s. As good of a season that Allonzo had, Schwber was still the better player this past year. He had more value and he of course was 10% better than Allonzo in the batting. Might not seem like a big difference, but when you also bear in mind that Allonzo brings little to no defensive value. And I know you guys may disagree with that assessment because you’re going to say, “Warty, he makes great scoops at first base. Wardy, he dive his body out all the time to stop errors from happening.” I’m not saying you’re wrong. But it doesn’t change the fact that Allonzo was statistically in the second percentile of defense in first base last year. He was downright horrendous. And the Mets would like to shore up that defense by giving Allonzo more reps at DH should they sign him. So the Mets have supposedly had this hard line in the sand that again they don’t want to go beyond three years for Pete Alonzo. This isn’t shocking. They’re approaching this just like they did an offseason ago. Now an offseason ago and him with a qualifying offer. No team pony up the dough to give Allonzo a four or fiveyear deal. That’s why he landed back with the Mets on three. Will this off season be different? Will this team show us that we are going to be seeing Orioles offer four or five? Red Sox offer four or five and is that going to be enough? Or are the Mets and now after seeing a guy like Diaz Walk say to themselves, okay, we cannot sacrifice to lose another key core talent away from the organization, especially one that isn’t really warranted of us parting ways with. cuz I and this has been my personal valuation of Alonzo for a very long time is that if he’s more willing to DH this is one of these guys that you should be keeping long term because he should be able to grade out well. I don’t think Alonzo is going to fall in the category of a guy who as soon as he gets into his early 30s falls off a cliff with his bat. MLB Network is reporting the Braves are in on Robert Suarez. Well, they can f off. Hopefully the Mets can best them there and their pursuit of him. But Alonzo is one of these guys that is to a degree part of a dying breed of power righty bats that provide little defensive value that as soon as that bat falls off so does all their value. You think of the CJ Cron types. You think of a lot of those big boppers from first base DH towards the end of the 2010s with the juice baseball era. You know, you think of to a degree Euano Suarez kind of falling that category. That’s why his market sucks. Not just because of his age, but Suarez probably isn’t going to get more than anywhere from 30 to 50 million this off seasonason, but he had how many home runs last year? He was fantastic with a home run headache, but there’s more to it. And I think how teams are evaluating Allonzo right now, I don’t really think a team is going to bend over backwards to give him five. They may go four. And for the Mets, this is where I disagree with them on. I don’t think that you can look at Allonzo and say it’s justified to let him walk on a one or two-year difference, especially if he’s going to be willing to DH more. I think that is what changes everything. Alonzo being willing to handle a sample size of the season at DH changes everything for not only your roster flexibility but also your ad to not only bring back your homegrown your your home run king in your organization but at the same time also position yourself where you can have some more defensive value at first base because you acquire more defensively minded first baseman as well. So once that’s become more clear and should the expectation again be that Alonzo is willing to handle more DH reps that’s where I will not see eye to eye at all with David Sterns of the Mets I won’t. So, if Alonzo does walk and if Alonzo does go to the Red Sox, if Alonzo does go to the Orioles, if Alonzo does go somewhere else, that’s another contender and a one or twoear gap was a difference. I will be disgusted continued with David Sterns to lesser degree Steve Cohen until they can either write the ship and show why it’s okay that we lost out on on him in the end or continue that feeling all the way starting the opening day next year because the Mets put out a product that is not to my liking or yours. Let’s get a spam going in the live chat right here, right now. To everybody watching live to like thousand concurrent viewers, if you haven’t already, please continue hit that like and subscribe button. I greatly appreciate that. But I want to hear from all you guys point blank. It’s very simple. Yes or no. Is Pete Alonzo going to return to the New York Mets? Oh, healthy divide in the chat right now. Lot of yeses and a lot of nos. There’s a good divide in here. Actually, you know what, guys? Because we talked about Diaz already, let’s go ahead and change the poll now to Alonzo. But this is where I will be likely cutting things off for my replay viewers. So, if this is not cut off for my replay viewers, that is because breaking news didn’t happen tonight and it wasn’t long after me saying this. So, that’s why it continues on longer. Otherwise, to everyone that watched on replay, let us know your not only further reactions to Edwin Diaz leaving the Mets for the LA Dodgers, what the Mets can do to hopefully supplement and of course try to fill what are massive shoes to fill for this Mets bullpen moving forward. We will get into the David Sterns remarks as well as many others here. For our live viewers, for people on replay, it will likely be cut off just because I didn’t want the stream to be too long. I apologize, but I’ll just tell you right now that everything that David Stern said today, I don’t think is none of it is new news to to you. It shouldn’t be. and he did have one simple remark just stating, you know, his understanding of fan frustration that we will highlight as well. Uh, but we will certainly talk more on these topics and then some in tomorrow’s content. So, we’re not going anywhere, but I just want to continue on the live show for solely our live viewers and everyone that else is watching on replay. Day three of winter meetings, but technically night two of winter meetings. A terrible night to this point, unfortunately, for the New York Mets after losing Edwin Diaz and Kyle Schwarber going back to Philadelphia. Let’s see what the Mets can do, if anything, to write the ship. All right, guys. as let’s continue on.

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