Mets add Sean Manaea and Harrison Bader, so what’s next and who’s left? | The Mets Pod | SNY

Mets add Sean Manaea and Harrison Bader, so what’s next and who’s left? | The Mets Pod | SNY

Welcome to the metss Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac on today’s show it’s our 100th episode we talk about the newest additions in Harrison Bader and sha manah while looking at what lies ahead for the rest of the offseason as always we close out the show answering your mailbag questions so subscribe to

The Mets POD at Apple podcast Spotify you can watch on sny’s YouTube channel or wherever you get your Shows What’s up everybody Welcome to the Mets pod presented by Tri State Cadillac elevate your style in a Cadillac go from Bold to Boulder in an SUV from inspiring to all inspiring in a sedan visit your Tri-State Cadillac dealer today and here’s your reminder to subscribe to the

Show at Apple podcast Spotify you can watch all of our episodes on sny’s Youtube channel wherever you get your podcast Joe it is episode 100 100 of the Mets pod we’ll celebrate in two different ways first a little reminder to everyone please go to sports podcast

Awards.com and vote for the Mets pod in our categories best baseball podcast and best team podcast please and thank you the second one even more fun how about some 100 themed questions segment here Joe and we will get to the new guys we will go in depth on Harrison Bader Shan

NAA some of your questions that pertain to what lies ahead for the rest of the offseason of course but some fun ones here Joe with the first one being will Pete Alonzo Francisco Lindor and Francisco Alvarez combine for 100 home runs in 2024 by the way welcome to

Episode 100 welcome to episode 100 crazy that uh we’re here and thank you all for the support obviously that’s the reason we are still here but it’s a a little mini scoreboard right where we’re we’re starting the scoreboard early and I I’ll say yeah I think I think Pete Alonzo in

Probably a walk year is gonna hit 50 home runs or more and then even if we take Lindor down to 25 instead of 30 that’s you know 75 77 something like that Alvarez just kind needs to do what he did as rookie year and boom you get

100 home runs so I’ll say yeah it’s a good line because with all prop bets the biggest variable is always injury or just missing time in general in any capacity whatever that may be so the good thing with these three guys is that two of the three for sure are

Foundational pieces of the New York Mets Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonzo play every day that they can Francisco Alvarez while still very young has graduated from that Prospect Mt he is up here he is the guy he is the catcher that’s why hear Rumblings that the Mets

Would have no problem trading Omar narv if an opportunity can’t this is San Francisco Alvarez uh his position with the team now yeah the way you break it down Joe it’s I mean it’s easy as that right Pete in a contract year feels like it’s going to be a monster season even

If you play it safe and say 40 to 45 you and I have been commonly with the thought process that Alvarez has 30 home run power and I think there’s need them another variable and the Mets haven’t been as uh it feels like motivated to do

This as much as we we would like them to without a mainstate DH on the roster right now even de Alvarez does not catch you would think there should be opportunities to find him at bats because he’s just he’s that kind of power bat in a lineup that needs more

Power every team needs more power you can say this about every single team if there’s a guy wearing a Mets uniform that has power he needs to hit as much as possible so say Pete hit 43 say Alvarez hit 31 that gets you obviously to a marker where Lindor

Doesn’t have to hit 30 right so I’m with you Joe but I think it’s a really good set number because of the injury variable but I think the purpose of the answer is we’re really confident in Alvarez being able to contribute his piece of the pie I’ll give you credit Connor there’s

A lot of discourse about the designated hitter position and you know we’ve talked about it and you’ve read it everywhere you could read it you’ve heard it on TV a name that’s never mentioned is Francisco Alvarez it’s always they’re going to sign someone externally or it’s going to be Mark

Vientos and DJ Stewart platoon at at the DH position but I don’t think Alvarez would be someone where it’s like every day he doesn’t catch he dhes but you could sprinkle in some of that and that that definitely could help the DH situation if the Mets opt to not sign

Someone but we’ll get more into that a bit the next one Joe is strictly for you will Edwin Diaz have at least 100 strikeouts in 2024 his return to the mound I will say no I think uh so coming back from the injury is he going to

Throw you know 63 to 65 Innings or is he going to be more like 55 Innings and if that’s the case then he basically needs to strike out you know two guys per inning and maybe that’s not sustain but he’s going to strike out a bunch of guys

His strikeout per Nine’s going to be like 15 plus uh it’s just a matter of where do his Innings line up and that’ll kind of determine is he 100 strikeouts is he 92 strikeouts uh he’s gonna strike out a lot of guys that’s what Edwin Diaz

Does typically a guy that his two best seasons he’s gone over a hundred um and you know so but his other Seasons he hovers around 89 so yeah I’m with you Joe coming off the injury it might not be uh if he has to do that then there

Might be some concern about how we handle Diaz all right of course this one is for 2025 not 2024 will the Mets win a 100 games in 2025 I’m gonna say no right it’s always safer to say no to 100 wins yeah they’ve almost never done that and I know we see

The Dodgers win 100 games kind of every year and that’s the vision of where the Mets want to be and I think 2025 like you and I have talked about on the show as this offseason has been disappointing not exciting whatever whatever term you feel like using uh next off season I

Think is going to be the antithesis of that so I expect the expectations to take a big jump in 20125 but like if the Mets win 96 games in 2025 that’s like also really awesome uh so they don’t have to win a 100 so I’ll say no they’ll

Be under but I think the 2025 Mets are going to come in with significantly different expectations than we have for the 2024 team so why my hopes are high for 2025 and I really think there’s a good chance Juan SoDo could be wearing a Met uniform that year I don’t think the

Mets have the foundation of pitching to just jump back into being a 100 win team that’s what it comes down to for me there’s just way too many variables with the starting rotation to go yeah they’ll win 100 games because they’re all in on 2025 but I’m with you Joe that doesn’t

Mean it can’t be a really good season our last one if Joe said the word platoon and Joe says it platoon for those at home properly 100 times in a row would he finally have the vocal muscle memory established to say the word properly moving

Forward I think if I said anything a 100 times in a row that would be the new way I said that word so you name it and how you want me to say it if I do it I think that’ll be the case but I think at this

Point it’s it’s just the thing it’s the way it’s the way it kind of like rolls off my tongue I understand it’s wrong and as somebody that is in the podcasting world where vocabulary certainly matters uh I don’t mind having my one word that’s kind of unique to me

I guess all right enough about our 100th episode nonsense I hope everybody had some fun with it as we did let’s get right into uh what of course happened immediately when we were we were done recording last week because we said it on the podcast like there will be moves

Now that we taped and it’s out there and literally 24 hours there was a move and we’ll get to Harrison Bader in a second but let’s start with the most recent one in Shawn manah Joe we’ve talked about somebody’s got a pitch for this team in 2024 we know kodai senga uh obviously

Canana they signed srino and they traded for Hower who that trade was so early it was is he a flex guy is he the sixth guy which six guy matters a lot for this Mets Rotation by the way with the status of SGA and the Mets as a franchise with

Their injuries but anyways that’s for another day sha manah in the fold a two-year deal with of course the opt out after that first year Joe this is a guy that did just opt out which is really fascinating when you look at manah he’s 31 he will turn 32 in February he’s

Coming off a year where he kind of had that Trevor Williams is role where not necessarily on purpose but he was a guy that started 10 games and then he also had uh 27 appearances out of the bullpen the long story short with manah was he

Had a tough go of it right out of the gate as a starter they mooved him to the pen he had some success in the pen he finished the year really really strong as a starter again for the Giants leading to the opt out in total a 444

Erra struck out about 10 guys over nine which is a promising sign Joe this is one where we’ve seen manah have success in his career notably in Oakland uh We’ve also seen him as recently in 2022 at the Padre’s really struggle at times what did you make of the Mets adding him

To the back end of their starting rotation the Mets really need like competent major league pitchers and sha manah is a competent major league pitcher and I think one thing that we need to realize is I think when manah was younger there was a lot of perception about him he was a higher

High highly regarded Prospect he was someone that people had hopes that he could be a Frontline guy and that’s just simply not what he is with that said over the last year and we talked about this a little bit on last week’s show he’s revamped some things he went to

Driveel line uh I I posted the video on my Twitter he realized he had a torso and he could use it to his benefit when he pitches he’s a big guy he’s a big guy just never used his torso he never used a weighted ball before which is like a

Modern day like training thing so he really has been a guy that performed as well as he has all things considered like at least an A League average to slightly above average League average pitcher for his whole career while doing no modern-day training not utilizing his

Torso and his delivery now he does and you saw an uptick in the velocity up to 97 uh you saw the sweeper that’s like the big story now is he has this magical sweeper that he found at the end of May and he was dominant with it which is a

All factual I mean nobody could touch his sweeper he developed it around the end of May but what I find interesting is people are correlating that sweeper to his September success that you mentioned at the end of the year they put him back in the rotation for I don’t know the reason

Maybe like they just needed arms to start and they just put him out there and he was dominant in the month of September however he threw two sweepers in the month of September so I mentioned it on last week’s show the sweeper is probably more beneficial for like a same-handed thing Lefty Lefty

Righty righty not so beneficial to face opposite hands so it may be something you don’t want to use too much as a starting pitcher but long story short they signed a competent Major League starter that had an uptick in stuff and results in the second half of last

Season so there is probably some perceived upside that he could be at least a League average starter if not better given last year’s League average ER is 4.33 the standard’s not all that crazy to be an above average starter in the major leagues nowadays no it’s not and

This is one of those moves that to me it kind of looks like this right Joe when it comes through this move everyone is they struggle I think to get themselves excited about just Shawn manah Standalone move and this is the same reaction when they signed srino I mean

Honestly it was okay you don’t get to look at the full picture My overall opinion of manah is it’s fine the Mets need arms and this is an Major League arm this is someone that his career has been a little funky when you look how it

Started I mean you look at his first three years in Oakland age 24 to 26 you’re thinking okay this is probably a number three starter for a long time in the big leagues and that could be low barring it I mean 386 ER in 25 starts

Then a 437 in 29 starts then down to a 359 in 27 starts while not striking out as many guys so to your point Joe if he could figure out how to whether it’s beef up his velocity which he recently has use a lot of his strength in his

Body this a 245 pound guy that maybe some of that power pitching will not be the name of his game but be in his Arsenal that he can get even better and it’s kind of just been a roller coaster since since then coming over to the National League um last year the highs

And lows of being a starter a lever a starter with the Giants the Mets are a team that it would be great if they start to hit on guys like this and what I mean by that is guys that have had success him and sevino sevino is more health I want to

Make that very clear here but him and sevino have full season sample sizes of being like number two kind of star ERS in a rotation can the Mets be a team that it’s not going to be everyone like the reality of the Mets finishing the year and S know manah are often free

Agency signing six-year deals because they had that kind of success is low nobody’s expecting that but the great teams hit on one of these guys in the off season because they tweak something they get their confidence back up they might find something behind the scenes healthwise in their training and their

Preparation to make sure they can make all those starts uh it could be something with matchups and data so while the stand still move alone like in a vacuum might not excite you this offseason after the Yamamoto swing and miss this is what I wanted was just get

As many guys like this that there is a world where they can be a capable ful year starter for you and my opinion is because all the money for them seems to just be in the first I mean it’s with this with manah he has a decent year

He’s opting out again so this is once again the and srino is on a one year right like the Mets once again don’t have a lot of pitchers planned for 2025 go I would say go get another one of these guys honestly and maybe we get

There in a little bit but like for me the Mets and I know Mark feinan from MLB has said the Mets are now looking at the trade market we don’t know the tier of the trade market could be another Hower a flex guy or could it be a legit like

Dylan CE we don’t know Joe but I think it’s hard to kill a move like this when we don’t know what the full rotation is if this is the rotation as a whole where Hower is the five I have concerns because while these five guys are fine

Like at nothing special as a whole I always have that fear of one or two injuries and we’re in big trouble really really quickly which we’ve seen too often over the past but there’s a lot of offseason left and these are the kind of guys we’ve been asking for rather than

Going out and giving Blake snell a seven-year deal and dealing with the qualifying offer guys like manah and Adrien house are ra the floor of the team and that’s kind of the objective I think mostly of this offseason is let’s raise the floor where the odds of us as the Mets being a

Really bad team aren’t as high the odds of winning 94 games are also equally as low right but they mix in some they mix in some potential when you talk about srino like that’s all Health I’d be stunned if L Severino was healthy and bad again like 2023 was an outlier as

Far as not being good it’s just a matter of how much does he pitch but yeah sha manah perfectly content with him as the number four guy maybe he’s a Taiwan Walker a guy that had success early in his career then kind of fell fell back

And then the Mets got him and they did something with him so maybe sha manai could be this year’s version of a Taiwan Walker where you get you know a little more than what even an optimist would think you could right that’s exactly Taiwan Walker’s a good call back because

He was somebody highly regarded for a long time you’d seen success he had the injury history which that he’s more of a sevino comparison yeah and then you know became a capable healthy pitcher with the Mets so that that’s where it is on manah right now

It’s good to see the Mets filling out a rotation I think they have some work left to do and we’ll see if if they take on that challenge the other moov Joe of course in the mold of the classic Mets are doing one-year deals across the board for guy but they’re not Joey

Wendles right like they’re not Oney year $2 million deers they’re going and getting Major Leaguers that specialize that’s exactly what Harrison Bader is on a one-year deal one of the best gloves in center field across baseball yeah I mean dating back to 2018 I believe it is he leads all center

Fielders and outs above average which is a defensive metric and it’s by like a decent margin too like he is when we say people are great at a position sometimes there’s a little hyperbole behind it there’s no hyperbole Harrison Bader is one of if not the best defensive center fielder in the sport

When he plays that’s been a thing he he has obviously a history of injury I think when you look at what David Sterns always did in Milwaukee Milwaukee going back over the last few years they are always top five in defense they’ve been as as high as

Number one and number two a couple years in defense so he values having a quality defensive team and Connor you and I have been Mets sanss for our entire lives the Mets have been just a bad defensive team almost year in and year out they would just sacrifice defense or offense

Putting Lucas Duda in left field putting Daniel Murphy in the Outfield like they didn’t care they just wanted to get as many runs scored as you can da David Sterns is trying to balance that a little bit where yes you obviously need to score runs but you also need to

Prevent runs I’d be perfectly fine if Harrison Bader were the semi-regular center fielder for the Mets batting in the nine hole he’s flashed offense before you know 2021 he was like perfectly fine and largely he is a better against lefties than than righties guy but look lefties don’t

Pitch that much so you’re not paying Harrison Bader 10 and a half million to play like once a week essentially if he’s only facing lefties so focus on the defense I think it’s a a huge benefit for this rotation that is a little suspect you know what helps if you’re

Pitching’s not great having good defense behind him so love the move of Harrison Bader in like the prism of of what it is right but he’s a n he’s a nine-hole hitter and I think that puts more pressure on the Mets for me to pursue a legitimate designated hitter if you’re

Going to kind of put a guy like him in the nine hole I agree so unlike bayah individ usually alone I love this move Bader and I agree with you Joe there is also like manah a big picture of view that if the Mets lineup Mets were

Batting a lineup today you’d be like man they’re missing something but realistically this team has a good shot at going out and signing a bat that can help a DH and it really you know mitigates the problem of Bader offensively now what back to why I

Love this move you nailed it that in center field this A Difference Maker this isn’t a good center fielder this is a difference making center fielder and I think that if you have a rotation that is giving up flyball contact you need a guy like that that can bail you out on

Some big time plays and then on top of that Joe one more thing having nmo play left strengthens your defense in left field and saves his legs a little bit absolutely that’s you know kind of the the byproduct of Harrison Bader is if you get nmo more

Reps and left and I’m sure he’s going to play some center field Bader is not going to play 162 so Nemo will play some but if you can move him to left field I think he has a chance to be well above average there and if Starling Marte

Playing down in the Dominican winter league is any indication that his groin and his health is getting better than he’s a a quality right fielder so you could have some really good Outfield defense with Tyrone tlor behind them on the bench another good defensive player

So this is the kind of stuff we’re going to learn about David Sterns as we look forward and you think about what he did in Milwaukee and I know a lot of people are probably rolling their eyes because they think the Mets are going to be built like the Brewers forever they’re

Not but he is not GNA stand for bad defensive teams that is just something he believes in and he has shown the ability to build really good bullpens like those are two things I think we could Bank on going forward the Mets are G to have good bullpens and good defense

100% and one last move I can’t get on this podcast after the season and say what I did where look at the Diamondbacks how athletic they are and look at the rule changes and look at how much athleticism matters and then not be excited about the Mets signing Harrison

Bader who improves their Sprint speed drastically on the base paths improves their range and arm in Center center field which also improves left and right field the kind of help he can give those guys the kind of you bring up T Tyrone Taylor which is a great callback because

The Mets right now here’s the thing with the Mets and trickle effects two of the biggest X factors are Catalyst with the Mets this year if they want to be an 84 win wild card team or or insignificant is probably the health and uh impact of Brandon nmo Jeff mcneel and

Starling Marte right I could sit here and tell you Francisco Lindor is going to be really good Pete Alonzo is going to be really good if Brett batty or Mark Vientos has a tough year or since Ronnie Mauricio is out like I’m not blaming a failed season on those factors what

Matters is the batting champ and Jeff mcneel getting back to form and if keeping him out of the Outfield and just finding some things there helps that great if saving nimo’s legs and having him play more left field helps that that’s really important to the lineup the Catalyst of the this lineup Marte

Who was maybe the biggest xfactor on a team that won over a 100 games I’m not saying Marte needs to come back play 130 games and hit 340 but if Marte can play 115 games and be the hitter we’ve known him to be like these are trickle effect things that matter so

Much and you can’t discount that in signing a guy like Bader the impact it has on the entire Outfield people forget how good Starling Marte was in 2022 for Mets because 2023 obviously didn’t go well and he was injured but look those three players you name they’re accounting for like $53

Million this year on the Mets payroll so yeah the external additions matter but making sure Jeff mcneel bounces back which if you look at his second half I think it’s clear as day Jeff mcneel is probably going to be Jeff mcneel again in 2024 but if you could keep nmo on the

Field keep him healthy and left field save those legs that’s a huge plus and Starling Marte to your point Conor is probably the X Factor of all X factors because he was the two-hole hitter in such and he stole 24 bases in 2023 basically without a groin Network right

Essentially so he could he could be a huge impact in the confines of the new rules if he can just find a way to stay on the field and just get closer to what he was in 2022 all right so let’s get into what’s next and I think we’ve

Hinted at this conversation enough that DH is pretty high on the list for us we’ve had the whole conversation around Jorge solir I think more importantly Joe there’s been movement on this Market we knew the Dodgers were probably going to look to add a bat they get teoscar

Hernandez on a one-year $23 a. half million deal the Dodgers never stop spending that is a bat that’s off the market now but with that JD Martinez still out there Justin Turner still out there Jorge cair still out there along with a few others it just feels like Joe

The Mets gotta get one of these guys and then everything starts to look a lot different for the lineup I acknowledge the possibility that they are not going to add a designated hitter it’s been it’s been reported enough that we cannot ignore the possibility that Mark Vientos and DJ

Stewart get the line share of DH and maybe it’s rest days for Starling Marte maybe it’s rest days for Francisco Alvarez like I get it but I’m also not going to say I think they should do that they should be getting a genuine designated hitter I have kind of had

Enough ever since the DH has come into play in the National League the Mets have almost it almost feels like purposely tried to not be very good at the DH position since it came into play and this off there are yeah there are legitimate candid Justin Turner the more I think about him

The kind of maybe less interested I am in him I I don’t know how much of an upgrade he honestly would be over like a viento sin Stewart deal for 2024 but he’d give you a little more reliability Jorge Solair is our guy on this show like I would sign Jorge

Solair immediately he is the he is the ideal fit for this position JD Martinez another great fit like he he’s a guy that has had some back issues and I think he’s figured out how to manage those back issues because all of his under the hood numbers in 2023 are

Fantastic he strikes out a bit whatever that’s fine the Mets need another 25 30 plus like that kind of range home run hitter in their lineup so to me getting Harrison Bader makes getting a designated hit hitter significantly more important and then you have kind of a pretty complete lineup with some contact

Some on base some speed some power and then you also improved your defense I’m with you all the way it’s it’s the one thing for me that I will be disappointed if they just go into the season and go we’re g to try what we always try a lot of

Unproven platoon right I gu let’s call what it is they are unproven or unreliable platoon rather then it’s such a position that you can gain an offensive advantage and if that cost 15 million 20 million on these short-term deals that just don’t matter in the Steve Cohen era they don’t matter

Like they can go give Jorge cair one year $28 million deal I do not care I’d actually love it honestly that’s flexing your cash Advantage without sacrificing any long-term luxury tax issues that’s what I want the Mets to do it’s not not saying they have to because we don’t

Know if guys are open to that so they would probably rather just take the two-year $55 million deal and with a third-year player option or whatever it may be but that that is what the Mets in my opinion need to do all right before we get to the mailbag you’re listening

To the Mets pod presented by trate Cadillac subscribe to the Mets POD at Apple podcast Spotify sm’s YouTube channel whever you get your podcast all right Joe you got plenty of good questions on Twitter PSL the flushing like you always do let’s jump into this one from Dale’s pale ale if the Mets

Were to flip prospects for a bigname starting pitcher which ones do you think the organization is comfortable Letting Go honestly none like I I kind of feel the same way yeah the Mets did not do what they did at the trade deadline to then 5 months later be like okay we need

A starter let’s just trade these prospects that we just got uh so I Kevin parda might be like the highest regarded guy they’d be interested in moving and you know Kevin pra needs a bounce back 2024 I don’t think he’s the type of prospect that’s headlining getting you

The kind of starter that I think Mets fans are hoping and praying for and if the Mets are going to make a trade for some kind of starting pitcher I’d be more than happy if they got a different Adrien Houser that happens to be under control through 2025 like if they did

That that would be a kind of trade I’d sign up for where it’s you could have competition between whoever that person is and Hower for the Five Spot the other one could be the swing guy and then you have an additional arm in 2025 which Connor you and I have talked about last

Week this week There’s very little coming in 2025 as far as um you know the the players that are under contractual control obviously the young players are still here and we’ll see some of that but I would like to trade for a starter with more than a year of control if I

Could yeah that’s the that’s the goal right otherwise I think some something people can’t lose sight of that you you really basically summed up right in the beginning of that answer the Mets this year are paying Max sherzer and Justin berlander a ton of money they were

Willing to do that because of the prospect return they got back the Mets understandably are not just unloading those promising prospects to take on somebody that makes also makes money and can just leave right away and all these guys can do that all the bigname starting pitchers that are

Available for trade and notice almost none of them have been moved because of the asking price because that they could just leave after this year so the point is the Mets are willing to pay because if those guys hit in a year two years three years it’s cheaper than going out and having

To pay the top dog all the time that’s the strategy of baseball that’s building a sustainable winner so yeah I’m it’s a good question because I think I want to know like what prospects did they deem movable if you want the honest answer guys that I would say the highest octane

Prospect and you would be selling low so even this isn’t the right answer maybe Kevin PDA in the like say Kevin Pera has a monster year this year that’s a guy next next offseason I’m like maybe the Mets are willing to move him because they extended Pete Alonzo and Francisco

Alvarez is the guy and there’s just not really a place for him and and we have a ton of other promising prospects that actually play positions we need like that that’s my answer yeah I think Pata makes the most sense and you know they just drafted Colin Hal they like him a

Lot they just got Ryan Clifford and lilbert right yeah don’t forget about don’t forget about Colin H he’s very he’s ve very good but yeah I’d say Kevin parda is probably the answer but I don’t think there in a rush to even move him right now all right uh last one here

From yeah young MB do you guys think Mets the Mets should add one more pitcher to this rotation to make it a six-man rotation in my opinion a six-man rotation is the future of the league and the stats show that pitchers perform better on six day rest I mean I kind of

Hinted at it in the beginning now not everybody is on board with this some pitchers themselves don’t want to wait that long to pitch right Joe yeah I would say a stream six-man rotation I I do agree I do agree at some point in time we will probably see the

Game shift that way but it’s very hard to radically change it kind of overnight I think the most likely scenario is seeing one of those pseudo six-man rotations like they did last year where Sanga would get an extra day sometimes and then other times he’d pitch on

Normal rest or off days would make it so they didn’t have to give him extra rest so I would say a pseudo six-man rotation and uh you and I both just said we we would like to see them add another starter even if it’s another I want to

Say Adrien Hower type which just feels like I’m talking about like a fifth starter so uh I I won’t I won’t just call everybody in Adrien Hower anymore but just like a a fit star type and heck hypothetically you could just have Tyler McGill do that or Joey lucasey if if you

Really wanted to you can do that and odds are your results for the season are not going to be you know significantly deterred Hower is the the peak though of that because all of us that play Fantasy Baseball have streamed Adrien Hower like 45 different times so we look at Adrian

How like like ah he might get you a quality star he might get you a win like it’s not gonna be pretty but he could do it and now he literally pitches for the Mets so it’s even he’s a League average pitcher that’s why Adrien Hower is and

You need those you need those not I really do think the Mets need another one for injury protections and it helps that a guy like manah has Bullpen flexibility that if everything was perfect and you guys all know that’s never the case then oh Mani is our six

Starter that we need a lot and a bullpen guy like okay I don’t care if that’s $14 million a year because realistically he’s gonna have to make a lot of starts as well so anyways that sums up uh the state of this offseason right now Joe

Any closing thoughts I it was nice to have a busy week and and we were looking forward to this podcast it was actually two moves we could talk about it it definitely was getting difficult to keep doing here next we think here’s what’s we we think maybe

Maybe they’ll do it I think right now the priority is probably you know January 12th they have to exchange uh figures with arbitration eligible players so I think that’s going to take up a lot of teams effort over the next couple of days but after that I think

That’s when the flood gates are going to kind of open and the Mets in my opinion need to add two relievers so that’s kind of what’s next I think is add a couple relievers to the bullpen I talked about Ryan stanik Joel Sherman John breia and Wy Peralta and uh Brent Suter former

Brewer today in the New York Post so there’s gonna be a couple relievers coming in I think because a lot of people have looked at the quote unquote no-name relievers I think you’re going to see a couple names that you probably have heard of added here in the next you

Know few weeks I think so too actually Big League arms that uh could even pitch in some high leverage situations for the Mets for sure whether that’s the seventh inning whether that’s splitting duties for the eighth inning I can almost guarantee you the Mets will sign a

Reliever or two that the average fan knows and that’s really really vital especially talking about with Diaz’s return you’re not going to be relying on Diaz to go the eighth and Ninth in all these crazy scenarios and you do need to be careful as well with that this is the

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Connor Rogers and Joe DeMayo celebrate the 100th episode of The Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac, as they break down the Mets additions of Sean Manaea and Harrison Bader, and look at the MLB market for more potential acquisitions. Connor and Joe go long on what Manaea brings to the Mets starting rotation, how Bader fits in the outfield and lineup, plus what the Mets should do next – like adding a designated hitter such as Jorge Soler, Justin Turner, or J.D. Martinez. Later, the show wraps by unwrapping the Mailbag to answer questions about flipping prospects for pitching and whether or not the Mets should have a 6-man starting rotation. Be sure to subscribe to The Mets Pod at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Today’s Show:
00:00 Welcome to the show
01:00 Vote for The Mets Pod for the Sports Podcast Awards!
01:20 It’s the 100th episode of The Mets Pod, so let’s ask some 100-themed questions!
01:40 Will Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor and Francisco Alverez combine for 100 home runs in 2024?
05:00 Will Edwin Diaz have at least 100 Ks in 2024?
06:05 Will the Mets win 100 games in 2025?
07:30 If Joe said the word “platoon” properly 100 times in a row, would he finally have the vocal muscle memory established to say the word properly moving forward?
08:25 Sean Manaea
17:55 Harrison Bader
25:25 What’s next? The DH market?
29:30 Mailbag – Prospects for pitching?
33:00 Mailbag – 6-man rotation for the Mets?

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