00:00The one thing that I will say, Joe, about Pete Alonzo is that, look,
00:05Pete Alonzo is not going to give any money back.
00:07He made a lot of money signing with the Orioles, okay?
00:09Right.
00:10A crap load of money.
00:11But doesn't it feel to me like that's the one move of all the moves this
00:15offseason that if you could go back and change it and you ask Pete Alonzo
00:20privately, hey, like, if you could go back and just take a little bit less
00:23money to stay, and the Mets stink, I get it, but to stay with the Mets
00:27and not be, I don't know.
00:28It seems so weird to me still seeing him play with the Orioles, and, look,
00:33he's in a better record situation-wise, and Pete Alonzo would not have made
00:38the Mets win 80 games this year, Joe.
00:41He would not, okay?
00:42He's one guy.
00:43There's 26 guys on a roster.
00:45But I kind of feel like if he was back on the Mets, like,
00:49things would have been better, and it feels a little miscast to me
00:54in Baltimore.
00:55I don't, I don't, I don't, the whole signing was weird at the time.
00:59I understood it.
01:00And then, as you said, he got off to that tough start.
01:02Then he got really, really hot.
01:03He started playing great baseball.
01:04So it made sense to me.
01:06And in the end, his numbers are going to look really good at the end of the
01:09season.
01:10But I don't know.
01:11If I'm the Mets, maybe just call the Orioles and be like, look,
01:13we screwed up.
01:15Like, how can we make this right?
01:16Give us Pete back.
01:18What's the money look like?
01:20Let's put him back in New York.
01:21I know a lot of Mets fans, Joe, by the way, were really, really, like,
01:25destroyed when that happened.
01:26They, like, quit the Mets when they let Pete Alonzo go.
01:30I don't think he wanted to leave.
01:32I think he knew he was going to get, somebody was going to pay him,
01:36and it just happened to be the Orioles.
01:37But, I mean, I think had the Mets come up with anything even close,
01:42he would have rather have stayed with the Mets than any place else.
01:46I mean, listen, he had 175 in April.
01:50But he does have, to your point, he's over 250 now.
01:53He's 25 home runs, 75 rivers on the season.
01:57And not having any protection in front of him, behind him.
02:01So it's a lot of injuries there.
02:04But, I mean, who's been protecting him in this lineup?
02:06The Orioles have been horrific outside of him offensively,
02:10unless I'm missing something.
02:12I mean, Roplin, by the way.
02:15No, he hasn't played.
02:16But, look, the Mets have worked out.
02:17They got Polanco.
02:18He's batting 120 with one home run.
02:21It worked out great for them.
02:22How much are they paying Polanco?
02:23Honestly, Polanco may have been the worst signing of the offseason.
02:26I think when it's all said and done.
02:27I agree.
02:28He's going to be the worst.
02:29I mean, what were they thinking there?
02:31First base for a guy who never played first base?
02:34A guy who's never gotten a big contract?
02:36You're just going to throw all this money at him?
02:38I know he had a home run the other day, I think.
02:41I think he went 0 for 26, Polanco, and then got a hit.
02:44It was a home run.
02:45That's correct.
02:46Oof.
02:48Horrible sign.
02:49You got guys like Gunnar Henderson hitting 213.
02:52You know, Holiday's only hitting, you know, 240 here.
02:57O'Neal is 290.
02:58You go down this list, it's like, well, actually, it's not bad.
03:02It's not terrible here.
03:03In this day and age.
03:06It's just disgusting there, Gunnar Henderson.
03:09And my point with Rashman was, I don't know what, he was not exactly crushing the ball to begin with
03:16this season here.
03:17So, you know, he too had his, not only the injuries, but, you know, he's not, I don't know what
03:24kind of hitter they think they're getting in Boston, but he has not lived up to expectations at all outside
03:33of that first year.
03:33So, you know, I don't know what kind of hitter.
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