00:00One is obvious. Health. Health. Health of Judge. That's a bad one. Specifically. Well, why is that a bad one?
00:06Because it's a Fugazi one. Well, it's not Fugazi. Judge and Cole are absolutely imperative to this team.
00:10Okay. Right? So you can't lose Judge. As much as I think the lineup is pretty deep, you can't lose
00:14Judge, can't lose Cole.
00:15To be fair, that's a bit of a cop-out. It's not a bit of a cop-out. It's generic.
00:19It is generic. That's why I started at number one.
00:21If Soto and Peralta get hurt, the Mets are done. Right? If Shohei and Freeman get hurt, the Dodgers are
00:28done.
00:29They just went to 94 wins without Cole. So I'm still saying Cole's health is important.
00:34All right. I'm a little disappointed. I'm sorry.
00:36I thought it'd be much more in the weeds in specific.
00:39Well, I said that's the obvious one. They are more getting in specific.
00:42I never considered health as an issue. Well, Judge is the most impactful player in baseball.
00:44Yeah. He is. And if the Mets lose Soto, I still think that lineup has a chance to...
00:50You said health. Go with health. You only get two more, though.
00:53Yeah, no. Number two. Yeah. Bottom of the order.
00:55Okay. Walk me through it. Specifically. Okay.
00:57Okay. Now, the issue at the bottom of the order is they have pretty much three players
01:01in McMahon, and I'm bad with names, even my favorite team.
01:06God, your favorite team. He's just starting third base.
01:08Whoever's playing shortstop, Wells at catcher, and McMahon at third base.
01:13That's pretty much the bottom order of the bottom three.
01:15And as much as I'm confident about all those players and better than they were last year,
01:19whether it's Caballero or whoever's playing shortstop, the issue is they're all similar.
01:23And they all do the same thing. They're all a, wow, he's really good defensively.
01:28He could hit 20 home runs, but he's going to strike out a million times.
01:31And all three guys at the bottom of the order with that much swing and miss is a problem
01:35because you get to the bottom of the order, and it's tough to move runs along.
01:38Automatic outs.
01:38You want to put balls in play.
01:40Like, that is the main problem with the offense.
01:43The bottom of the order just doesn't put the ball in play enough.
01:45They're all the same player.
01:46Good defense probably hit you 20 to 25 home runs, and over the course of 162,
01:51that's going to lead to a lot of runs scored and the best offense in the American League.
01:54But when you get down to big games, you get down to big moments,
01:57you get down to postseason series, you can't have 7, 8, 9 all striking out all the time.
02:00So the bottom of the order is the other concern, and then quite clearly,
02:04number one overall without question is just the bullpen in general.
02:06The bullpen is, I don't know, outside of Bednar, Doval, and Cruz,
02:11at the top, you know, the closer, Doval, and Cruz.
02:15Outside of them, I don't know who's getting big time outs and big time runs.
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