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00:10We talked about how the Mets took 12 pitchers in this draft of their 19 selections.
00:15We know that, as Wardy said earlier, the Mets could always use some more pitchers.
00:20We know that. But Joe, for you, why do you think they focused on that in this draft?
00:26Were they just looking at what they've had in the farm system and maybe some of the slight regression they
00:31saw this year from certain pitchers and said,
00:33hey, we need to stock up more there? Why do you think they took so many pitchers in this draft?
00:38I think on average, pitchers do dominate the MLB draft, not just the Mets, just across the landscape.
00:44At the end of the day, every single game that's played at every single minor leaguer,
00:49there needs to be somebody standing on the rubber throwing the baseball to a catcher.
00:52So you need a bunch of pitchers to get through the minor league season.
00:56And obviously, nowadays, there's just so much data and information on pitchers that you could get excited about guys
01:04that aren't even high draft picks, that just have some super good stuff.
01:07So I think it's one of those things that you just always draft a lot of pitchers.
01:11Honestly, I thought the Mets were going to draft more pitchers than they did.
01:14It was 12 pitchers, 7 position players.
01:17I thought that might be more 13 or 14 on the pitcher's side.
01:21But yeah, I think it's just one of those things.
01:23They like a lot of pitchers.
01:24They trust their pitching development system.
01:26And there's just always a need for pitchers, not just eventually at the major league level,
01:31but to play minor league baseball games.
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