00:00Given this Frasian class, I think that there should be no one that's prioritized more than Sato from a position
00:06player perspective for the New York Mets.
00:08He is the cream de la creme.
00:10He is the guy that everyone's going to want.
00:12And the reason why everyone's going to want him is for the following reasons.
00:16A, he's entering his age 27 season.
00:18Kind of like Murakami, who's a couple years younger, getting a guy at 25, 26.
00:22And look at what he did in their first run.
00:24You look at Cosmo Akimoto, even a veteran who signed around the age of 30 with the Blue Jays.
00:2830 home runs season, north of 90 RBIs.
00:31Sato is right in the conversation with both of them.
00:34When it comes to great track record at MPB, he had another dominant year.
00:38Back-to-back years now where Sato is essentially at 40 home runs and 100 RBIs.
00:41And he's batted from 277 pretty consistently throughout his career.
00:45260 to high 270s to this season, turning up a notch.
00:49A 306 average, 383 on base, 609 slug.
00:52He batted roughly 100% better than the average hitter in the MPB.
00:56The big question with Sato is transitioning to first base.
00:59He's played more of the hot corner and around the infield.
01:01But his expectation and the projections for him is that he will be best suited at first base at the
01:07major league level.
