NY Mets Deadline Moves: Strategic or Just for Show?
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00:00Last week of fantasy baseball, for some of you, saw Francisco Alvarez of the New York Mets.
00:09I don't know really how to define the Mets' deadline here, too, to be honest with you, George.
00:14I guess I was wrong. I thought that they would do a little bit more, but Alvarez, by the way, had a bad week.
00:22But we can dive a little bit more into the Mets here, I think, because we probably have people who are going to want to talk about this.
00:28David Stearns is now the president of baseball operations of the Mets, and it felt like a David Stearns deadline, George, didn't it?
00:37It did not feel like an Alderson deadline or an Omar deadline or an Epler deadline.
00:42It kind of felt like they have this path that they're on, and they're really not going to deviate from it that much.
00:48Not that they didn't do anything, it just wasn't as much as I thought that they may do.
00:54I thought the Mets' deadline was what I like to call a placate-the-fans-in-media deadline.
00:59And what I mean by that is they acquired some players, but nothing that really cost them anything.
01:05Nothing that's going to win them a World Series.
01:07But they'll, oh yeah, we made deals. We added players to the team. We tried.
01:11But I think they know deep down, we ain't winning the World Series this year.
01:15Not with this pitching staff.
01:18I mean, come on. Quintana's your number one. Quintana, Peterson, Minaya.
01:23We're not winning. We might make the playoffs, and that's good.
01:26We'll reinforce the bullpen a little bit, but we're not going deep here.
01:29So let's not give up anything we don't want to give up. That sort of thing.
01:32But we can say we made moves. Yeah, we did this. We tried.
01:35And I think the Mets will make the playoffs, by the way. They're sort of a fun team to watch.
01:38They had another big win last night. They acquired Blackburn, who pitches well.
01:42But, you know, I like you. I probably did expect maybe at least a little bit more.
01:47A little bit more. Something to really sink our teeth into here.
01:50As for Alvarez, by the way, he was dealing with an injury earlier in the week.
01:53That's why he missed a couple of games here. So I think he'll be a little slow here.
01:56The only thing I'm going to complain about catches, Craig, is that, for the love of God,
02:00can we not play in two catcher leagues anymore?
02:03There should be no such thing as two catcher leagues.