NL East Update: Mets' Playoff Hopes and Braves' Struggles

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00:00go to the NL East, Mets, Phillies, Braves, Nationals, and the Marlins in that division.

00:04The New York Mets, who are riding high and mighty here, Mark, now loses a four straight

00:08games. Chris Sale back on the mound today for the Atlanta Braves. It could leak to five games.

00:12The Phillies got beat last night in Miami, and then the Atlanta Braves, who now sit 12 games

00:17back, which is still a ton. But as I like to say is, if you're going to make a charge to try to

00:21get back into the race, it's got to start somewhere and a nice comeback victory for

00:25the Braves against the New York Mets. Let's talk Mets first, though. Your feelings on the Mets

00:29this season, a little bit of a slump. Worried or no for them? Not worried. Again, the Mets

00:36will be in the playoffs, and I don't think the Mets care, and I don't think the Mets fans

00:39care necessarily about winning division. Sure, they want to, but this is a team that is built

00:44for October, and they're built to win the playoffs, and that's why they got Juan Soto, because

00:48playoff Juan Soto is the greatest playoff baseball player of my generation after Derek Jeter, and

00:54that's, you know, just, it's unreal how big he comes up in the postseason. So, I look

01:00at them, and I'm not worried about the Mets. They're going to make the playoffs. I don't

01:05think the Phillies have enough pitching to catch the Mets and take over the division. Ultimately,

01:10when you start to get through August and September, I think the Mets have more arsenal, more in their

01:15arsenal, more arms, and certainly a better bullpen than the Phillies do, and that should be

01:19enough, and look, the Mets are scoring runs. Even in Citi Field, they're scoring runs, so

01:24they'll mash their way to a division title, and then they just show up in October.

01:29What about your Braves? Where's that team been exactly, and what's the outlook moving forward?

01:35I can't understand for the life of me the way odds makers still price the Braves like they're a

01:41competitive baseball team. Last night, the Braves, I think, were like a 145 favorite against the Mets

01:49who were in first place, which is insane. Now, I get that the Mets bullpen blew it, and the Braves

01:54won the game anyway, but that's an insane number to put the Braves, who, again, aren't hitting.

02:01Their bullpen is terrible. Their closer is shot, and just because of the starting pitcher,

02:07you're pricing them a $1.50 favorite? Come on. Like, that's nuts. Like, I don't know why the value

02:12in the Braves is still so high in odds makers' eyes. It shouldn't be, but I would take advantage of it.

02:16This team is not making the playoffs. They do not have enough of everything. This is a lineup that

02:21doesn't hit outside of Ronald Acuna, and again, you know, you lost one of your top starters to

02:26Tommy John surgery, Nadea Shmissalver. Again, you know, Chris Sale may be traded if this thing starts

02:33to really get bad come August or come late July over the course of the next month, but he's the

02:38one tradable commodity that they have, and if they can get a big enough haul for him, I'm sure Alex

02:43Anthopolis will pull the deal, so somebody might come calling for him, and if they do that, they've

02:47punted on the season, so I don't think this team has any chance to win the division at all, and they'd

02:53be lucky to get the seventh wild card.