00:00The Mets are favored to win the NL East.
00:03Buy or sell?
00:04The Mets, George, will win the National League East this season.
00:07Buy or sell?
00:09As an overall, I like the moves the Mets have made this week.
00:12I'm not saying they're a better team than they were last year.
00:14All right, I don't like them letting Alonzo go, Nemo go, Diaz.
00:18I mean, they lost a lot here.
00:20You're going to have a hard time convincing me that, okay,
00:22you have Polanco playing first base over Alonzo.
00:24That's a loss.
00:25Semyon, Gold Glover at second base, he'll catch everything he gets to.
00:29Not much range there.
00:30Lindor took a big step down defensively last year.
00:32Bichette, no, I don't have any idea if he can play at third base, by the way.
00:35Third base has really nothing to do with athleticism.
00:37It's a twitchy position, and his arm strength is questionable as well here.
00:41You've got Soto, who's what rated the worst defensive right fielder in baseball.
00:45Roberts is a good center fielder.
00:45He'll be fine there.
00:46In left field, you should be okay with the youngster as well
00:48if you don't pick up anybody else.
00:50So defensively, this team is going to be a nightmare.
00:52Pitching, yeah.
00:53Okay, I like Peralta.
00:54I like McLean.
00:55You know, but, Craig, can McLean go 150, 170, 180 innings?
01:00Don't know.
01:00We'll see.
01:01And they have good depth there.
01:02You know, Peterson, Sanger, blah, blah, blah, everything they go there.
01:05Are they going to win it?
01:06No.
01:07I'm going to sell this.
01:09It's not so much that I'm down on the Mets, but Philly's still a good team.
01:12All right?
01:13Atlanta, a good team.
01:15I think Atlanta is one pitcher short of being that team.
01:18All right?
01:18Maybe they're a team that gets Gallon or gets Fran Bavaldes.
01:21You know, either of those guys aren't the same they used to be.
01:25Let us need them to be a number one.
01:26Can they be a four or five?
01:28Yes.
01:28And I think I would like Atlanta a whole bunch here.
01:31So it's not a knock on the Mets.
01:32I think they're a playoff team.
01:34I just don't think they're going to win with divisions also.
01:36A good reminder that when they say that April baseball doesn't really mean anything,
01:41the Braves got off to the worst start they've ever gotten off to in the history of Braves baseball.
01:46And then we're pretty good the rest of the season.
01:49It actually had an okay run differential and didn't even sniff the playoffs.
01:53I am with George.
01:54I think that the Braves are being supremely underrated here.
01:58Like, this is a team that easily could win the division.
02:00Would they make another signing like that?
02:02I don't know that they would.
02:05Philadelphia's perspective, are the Phillies as good as last year?
02:08They don't, you know, Zach Wheeler?
02:09He's gone for now, I guess.
02:12Is he okay?
02:12Can he pitch?
02:13Ranger Suarez?
02:14Not there.
02:14Dolores Garcia?
02:16That's the big ad for the Phillies.
02:18So, I think it's going to be close, but I don't think it'll be the Mets.
02:21No.
02:22I think it'll be the Braves.
02:23That'll be my pick going into the season.
02:25I just think that so many things went wrong for them once again last year
02:28that it will be the Braves for me.
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