Jones & Keefe: This is the most shameful part of the Red Sox missing out on Pete Alonso

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00:00The shameful thing with Alonzo is that he is the kind of player they've signed.

00:04We don't even think about, we didn't even mention all offseason Kyle Tucker,

00:10who's still a free agent and still technically out there,

00:12but it's like, we don't even bring his name up.

00:14It's not even worth bringing up because they are not going to spend $300, $350, $400 million on a player.

00:21Okay, fine. We all disagree with it. We all think they should, but they won't.

00:25Right. $100 plus million for $155 million for a player really isn't all that much money,

00:31especially for a guy who, again, is a lock to play $150, a lock to hit $40.

00:36You need a big bat. You have money to spend without Rafi Devers here,

00:39which this is where, again, I'm with the Devers people.

00:43At some point, you've got to spend the Devers money, and at some point, you've got to replace the bat.

00:47I don't miss him. I think he's overrated.

00:49Keith, how many times has he finished in the top 10 in MVP voting ever?

00:52Oh, my God. Alonzo? No, no, no.

00:54Devers. No, Devers.

00:55Zero, zero, zero.

00:56Zero. Never done it. Never been there.

00:57So I think he's overrated. I don't miss him.

01:00No, but you've got to replace him.

01:01You've got to replace him.

01:01There's some production there.

01:03We're not ignoring the fact that the guy would hit 30 home runs.

01:05And this is, in John Henry's current budget, I thought, an exceptionally reasonable, affordable kind of deal.

01:12The exact kind of player on the exact kind of deal.

01:15He costs you a fraction of Devers.

01:17He's a better player than Devers.

01:19He's going to give you more production than Devers.

01:21And he'll be out there, and he'll even play the field if you ask him.

01:24Sure, a glove.

01:25Kind of perfect.

01:26Yeah.

01:26And they go, nah.

01:27We're nowhere near it.

01:28He's too old.

01:29Can't do it.

01:30That's shameful.