00:00And a quick follow up to what you were just saying about, you know, Bichette following so quickly after Tucker is panic a fair word to use.
00:09I think it is because I don't I always think of.
00:12And the reason why I would apply that word in this case is, do I think that the Mets sat in their conference rooms, Mets executives sat in their conference rooms and thought, you know, it would be a good outcome for the winner.
00:25We're paying forty two million dollars a year for someone who has never played this position before.
00:30That to me is panic. And I think it was a direct result of they thought they had Kyle Tucker.
00:36And the idea that we need to get a star as opposed to, hey, we want to make our team better.
00:45I can't square that. And again, I think if the Mets had to do it all over again, you wonder if they would have looked at Pete Alonso a little differently.
00:54Like if they were sitting in a conference room saying, OK, five years, one fifty five for Pete or three years, one hundred and twenty six in which we give Boba Shett all the power because the object out of the correct.
01:06I think it absolutely is fair to say that they were scrambling.
01:11They wanted a star. They pay Boba Shett a lot of money.
01:15And by the way, you know, there has been, you know, reporting about Boba Shett being the guy the Mets focused on.
01:21They wanted him to change the clubhouse chemistry. Come on.
01:24Like, like Boba Shett has been known in his career as being a great hitter, super talented, someone who's going to, you know, he's probably going to lead the the National League in hits.
01:36But he's never been a clue guy. Like you hear stories about Kyle Schwarber.
01:41You hear stories about, you know, Aaron Judge.
01:45You know, Boba Shett's a really great player, but it is going to be adjustment for him to go to New York and play there for the first time and to be playing a position he's never played before.
01:54And it's not even just about playing a position for the first time.
01:58The point of third base is being able to make that throw from third base to first base.
02:03And one of the many reasons that a lot of teams didn't think Bichette was going to stick it short was because his his throwing ability.
02:12Right. So you move that guy over to third base.
02:15That doesn't make a lot of sense, especially when Stearns came out this offseason and emphasize that run prevention was going to be a big part of the game.
02:24So to me, this feels like Steve Cohen just said, all right, we missed on Tucker.
02:28We have to sign the biggest bat.
02:30Yeah, that's it. And we're going to work around it because this doesn't feel like a Stearns move.
02:35No, I agree with you 100 percent on that.
02:37And what I've heard and I asked a bunch of people about, you know, how do you think Boba Shett's going to do a third base?
02:44And one person said to me, in fact, most of the people I talked to said, it's going to be a transition for him because when he played shortstop, how many times do you see him dive after a ball?
02:54Right. Where he's going on the ground, picking up the ball, making a strong throw over the top from the from, you know, from moving to his right.
03:01And the answer is none. He didn't. That wasn't part of what he does.
03:04He goes to third base where maybe the most important thing for him is going to be first step quickness.
03:10Very different than the way playing in the middle of the infield.
03:13That's what I've had some people say to me.
03:15I talked to someone this morning who disagreed with that.
03:18I said, look, I think Bo will be OK.
03:20You know, he watched him, as we all did in the World Series, playing second base.
03:24He thinks Bo will figure it out and be able to be OK at third base.
03:29I know this and I've seen some people say, you know, it's an easy transition if you're on the left side of the infield.
03:35I covered Cal Ripken.
03:36Sure.
03:37He transitioned from shortstop to third base.
03:40Cal was a brilliant defender in terms of how he played it at mentally.
03:44And his first year at third base was tough.
03:46Like, it is not an easy thing to do.
03:49And I do think there probably is going to be a learning curve for Bo at third base.
