00:00Another third baseman that I want to throw your way is Eugenio Suarez, who was the most prolific deadline acquisition in recent memory from a production standpoint.
00:11This guy was, what, flirting with 40 homers by the deadline?
00:15Yeah.
00:15He was a prolific power threat.
00:18Seattle goes and gets him without torpedoing their farm system, and he was very, very disappointing for Seattle in the home stretch.
00:28He had some big swings in October, but that was really it.
00:31He was not that good over the course of the regular season.
00:33That kind of anchored the numbers down.
00:36I just, I wonder what the market is going to look like for Eugenio Suarez.
00:40I don't think it's going to be a good one.
00:41I don't think it's going to be a great one.
00:44And I don't know, and this might be silly, but if I were running a team, I'd be looking at Anthony Santander's deal and saying, this feels really similar.
00:52And I know, like, you know, we got to talk more objective data than subjective feelings, but in this case, it just feels like that.
01:01Like, we were talking about it on the show a ton in the offseason last year of, like, that Santander deal is going to be a trap for whoever signs it.
01:11It just feels like it.
01:13And look, that doesn't mean that it's going to go terribly.
01:15I mean, we look at the last four years here.
01:17It's a little bit different from then comparing to Santander, right, where you have three and a half war minimum from F4 perspective since 2022.
01:25And every single year, it's about an average of about 3.6, 3.7 F4 from Eugenio Suarez.
01:31That said, though, he's going to be 34 years old, or he is 34 years old.
01:37The defense is only going to continue to, I think, take a little bit of a hit.
01:41There's going to be more pressure on him to slug.
01:43And that's where I think about the environment as well, where he's playing, because you got on base at a 298 clip.
01:49And it's kind of a similar conversation that we talk about with Santander last year is how hard the slugging percentage had to work to bring that OPS up over 800.
01:59And I think it's somewhat of a similar conversation here with Suarez.
02:04Like, it's all about the homers to get that OPS over 800.
02:09Like, he needed 50 homers, essentially, to get that OPS over 800.
02:13Very hard to do that.
02:14So, I think that is a position here where, I don't know, I get a little bit nervous thinking about giving this guy more than three years.
02:24And I think a lot of teams are going to look at it the same way when you consider his age.
02:28And that's why I don't think he gets more than three years.
02:30I would say I'm spoiling things because our last segment is going to be reunion candidates.
02:34But this is the most layup answer ever to the reunion candidate.
02:38Gino to Cincinnati makes a lot of sense because of what you just laid out.
02:42He is an environmentally dependent hitter at this point as he gets into his mid-30s.
02:47And Cincinnati is the perfect environment for him.
02:49They need a jolt of offense.
02:50But, yeah, he needs to hit homers.
02:53And you have no idea if 36-year-old Gino Suarez is going to hit homers the way he does.
02:59Pivoting to first base, we're talking about homers here.
03:01Pete Alonso is the bell of the ball at the first base position.
03:06Do you see a world where he puts on a different uniform next year?
03:11Where are you at?
03:13I don't.
03:13I think Stevie Cohen does whatever he has to do to keep Pete Alonso in a Mets uniform.
03:22I thought the same thing.
03:24And then I covered that series with the season just fading away.
03:30And I'm like, did I just blow this thing up?
03:32And by blow it up, I just mean shake it up a little bit more than we expect.
03:36And I think they do.
03:37But I don't think Pete Alonso is the area you do it, right?
03:39You traded Mark Vientos.
03:41Maybe you traded McNeil.
03:42You shake some other things up.
03:45Pete Alonso isn't the area where I'd want to shake it up.
03:49But the fact that they got so close this past offseason.
03:54And things didn't go that great overall.
03:57It's not Pete Alonso's fault.
03:59He was great.
03:59And it was by, I mean, where would they have been without Pete?
04:02Right.
04:02But I don't know.
04:05When you're that close to letting him walk and then you have another massively disappointing season,
04:10are they okay with just letting him walk?
04:14That's where it becomes interesting to me.
04:16My counter to you is Steve Cohen is clearly a guy that values the team store.
04:24And there are three guys who should be in the team store for the next decade.
04:29And it's Soto, it's Lindor, and it's Alonso.
04:32If you buy a Lindor jersey, you know you can wear it for the foreseeable future.
04:37If you buy a Soto jersey, you can wear it for the foreseeable future.
04:40I understand your idea of shaking the team up.
04:43I don't think shaking the team up with a jersey seller is the way to do it.
04:48I think shaking the team up in terms of like not trimming the fat, that's unfair to Vientos
04:52and McNeil, but changing the mid-level.
04:55Like in the NBA, if you're looking at a little rebuild, you swap mid-level contracts.
05:00You swap rookie deals.
05:02Chances are you're not moving the max player unless you're really in the crapper.
05:06And that's just not the case for the New York Mets.
05:09Like they could absolutely contend for an NL pennant this coming year.
05:14So for me, I see their big three, and it's Soto, Lindor, Alonso.
05:18You just hold on to the big three, and you can adjust literally everything else.
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