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00:00I think Alonzo, without the qualifying offer and off of the good platform and with teams

00:07needing offense the way they do, he's clearly going to opt out of the $24 million he's owed

00:12in 2026, and he's going to go into a marketplace that I think is going to treat him better than it

00:17was treated last year. I think left to his own devices, David Stearns would not bring this

00:23player back. Again, he believes in the profiles and 31-year-old right-hand thrower, right-hand

00:29hitter, non-athlete, bad defender, is not what he would get married to long term, especially when

00:35he knows the shape of the rest of his team. Does Steve Cohn step in? Does the fan base screaming

00:41matter here? David Stearns was hired to make unemotional decisions. Does Cohn let him make

00:47an unemotional decision here? He could point out that Alex Rodriguez left the Mariners as a free

00:54agent and the Mariners won 116 games the following year. Bryce Harper left the Nationals after 2018.

01:01The Nationals without him won the World Series in 2019. Juan Soto left the Yankees last year

01:07and joined the Mets. The Yankees this year, I know they didn't get to the World Series, but if you

01:12watch them play, they won the same 94 games without Soto that they won with him. And it's a point to just

01:18point out you could lose great players in their prime. All those players were better than Pete Alonso is

01:22now.