Keith Hernandez on what Mets should do with Pete Alonso this offseason

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00:00the head of baseball operations David Stearns and I don't think accidentally at least about 10 times

00:05in his end of year press conference used the term run prevention right defense if you're going to

00:10talk run prevention you know I know Pete tries hard and he has a skill which is scooping but

00:14he ain't going to help you too much on the run prevention side so I wonder what you think is

00:19going to happen and what you think should happen with Pete you're not going to replace his bat

00:24to me he is the second coming of uh Harmon Kildebrew you take Pete out of that lineup

00:29where are you going to find the replacement where are you going to find 125 RBIs as far as his

00:34defense he does scoop well which is great for the other infielders to know that they don't have to

00:39throw a perfect throw over there he has trouble throwing the first base to the pitcher that's

00:42obviously and it's almost like um Steve Sachs having a hard time throwing the first base it's

00:47basically the same thing it's all up up here but to me if he drives in 125 runs I think they've got

00:53to sign him and they got to sign they got to sign Diaz too does he ever come to you can you help him

00:58with that throw no one's come to me to help Pete the last time I helped anybody was Todd Zeal and

01:04that was when Bobby Valentine was the manager