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00:00This is John Heyman, day three at the GM meetings in Las Vegas.

00:04The Mets had a meeting with the camp of Pete Alonzo today,

00:08and I think things went very well.

00:11Very positive, productive meeting.

00:13Very good start.

00:14It feels like there's much better feelings about the Alonzo situation

00:18among the Mets than there was last year.

00:21Felt like a split decision last year with Steve Cohen kind of saving the day at the end,

00:25and thankfully for the Mets' sake that he did do that.

00:28Sign him to a two-year, $54 million deal, $30 million this year with the opt-out.

00:33Now Alonzo obviously back on the market.

00:36He is a priority for the Mets.

00:37At least he does feel like a priority.

00:39I understand they want to improve run prevention,

00:42but I don't think they think they can afford to lose us 38 home runs, 126 RBIs.

00:48So I think the Mets have a reasonably decent chance to bring Alonzo back.

00:52We shall see.

00:53It's early in the game.

00:54There's going to be other suitors.

00:55I'm hearing of one surprise suitor that could potentially be the Baltimore Orioles,

01:01which is a team that has not really been linked to Alonzo at this point.

01:05There are the other potential teams, of course, the Red Sox, the Giants.

01:10I don't see the Blue Jays.

01:12They've got Guerrero at first base.

01:13They've got Springer at DH.

01:15Not seen it.

01:16That was a team that offered him about $100 million last year,

01:19at least floated $100 million, pulled it, and eventually came back to the Mets,

01:23which worked out, became the all-time Mets home run leader.

01:27And I think it's good news that they're very serious about keeping him.

01:32It feels like they're doing a little bit of the opposite.

01:34You know, they were all into run prevention,

01:37weren't so gung-ho about bringing Alonzo back last year.

01:41Also felt they could build a rotation with a bunch of mid-rung starters, decent starters.

01:47Certainly, those decent starters had poor years, and maybe that was a lesson,

01:51because the Mets do seem to be looking at the number-one type starters,

01:55whether it be Emai, Cease, Frambois Valdez.

01:59There are a number of guys out in the market.

02:01If scoobles out there, the Mets are going to certainly be in the mix on that.

02:05That did not become clear.

02:07Jeff Greenberg today, the GM of the Tigers, would not talk about that situation.

02:13Didn't shut it down like Ben Charrington did with Paul Skeens.

02:16I'm not going to read anything into it.

02:18I still think it's probably a long shot for the Tigers to really trade Tarek Scuble.

02:24Did win his second in a row, Cy Young, today.

02:28Obviously, he would bring a haul, but they're a contending team,

02:32so it does feel like not a great chance.

02:35I have run to a couple GMs who felt that Scuble will get traded.

02:39I personally think they may gauge the market and then possibly trade him at the deadline.

02:43I don't see that happening now.

02:44John Amon signing off from the GM meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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