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right, so the New York Mets

2:55

have made their first big sign

2:57

to address their starting rotation and

3:00

on the surface you might not

3:02

like it. Frankie Monta signs a

3:04

two-year $34 million deal within player

3:06

option and opt-out after the first

3:09

year. So a complete player-friendly deal

3:11

coming off a season where you

3:13

pitch to a near-5 ERA, 4.84

3:15

ERA, and just over 150 innings

3:18

pitched. Why did the

3:20

Met do that? Well, let's start

3:22

off with the average annual value,

3:24

$17 million per. If you look

3:27

at the market for starting pictures,

3:29

it's not as much of an

3:31

overpay as you might see. Yusei

3:34

Kakuchi just got $21 million per

3:36

over a three-year deal. with

3:39

the angels coming off a season

3:41

where at the trade deadline I'm

3:43

not mistaken he had pitched to

3:45

a 475 ERA goes to the

3:47

Astros he was great in 10

3:49

starts but there's still some risk

3:52

in us a kakuchi. Now also

3:54

Frankie Montas last year hit the

3:56

open market as a free agent

3:58

coming off of shoulder surgery. had

4:00

barely pitched with the Yankees in

4:02

2023, goes out, tests the market,

4:05

a potential, you know, buy-low guy,

4:07

and he didn't really end up

4:09

signing a buy-low deal because he

4:11

got $16 million guaranteed, but it

4:13

was a one-year deal with the

4:15

Reds. And there was actually an

4:18

option on that one too. and

4:20

Montas ended up declining. I think it

4:23

was a mutual option, if I'm not

4:25

mistaken, because I remember when there was

4:27

all the options that were going on.

4:29

If I'm not mistaken, Montas was the

4:32

guy, where he declined his end of

4:34

the option that the brewers were going

4:36

to decline anyway, if I'm not mistaken,

4:39

which was sort of a funny little

4:41

transaction that we had earlier this off

4:43

season, but regardless. He collected his buyout,

4:45

he got his 16 million dollars guaranteed,

4:48

it goes a 2 million dollar buyout,

4:50

and now he hits the market again.

4:52

So 17 million dollars is only a

4:54

million dollar raise on what he was

4:57

guaranteed to pitch last season. and

4:59

he did throw 150 innings. So there

5:01

is something to the fact that he

5:04

got this deal and it's just how

5:06

much of a premium you have to

5:08

pay to get starting pictures these days.

5:10

Walker Buellers feeling pretty good right now

5:12

because he's looking at this and saying,

5:14

yeah, why should not get at least

5:16

$17 million through the postseason I just

5:19

had? but that might just be the

5:21

market. Now, the reason why you could

5:23

be upset about this is because you

5:25

are expecting the big names. You want

5:27

to see one, so to sign with

5:29

the match. You want to see them

5:31

go after Corbine Burns or bring back

5:34

Sean Manaya or sign Max Freed. Those

5:36

are the names you have circled. You

5:38

want to see a Garrett Crochet trade.

5:40

And how do we start off this

5:42

off-season as Mets fans? The match trade

5:44

for Jose Azeri. For Jose Seri. Who

5:46

can feel, but can't hit. And now

5:48

they sign a guy in Montas who

5:51

just had a pretty bad season if

5:53

you just look at the ERA. But

5:55

the New York Mets have earned the

5:57

benefit of the doubt because they did

5:59

this last off season. We were all

6:01

scratching our heads. they signed Shaw Manaya

6:03

to a two-year $28 million deal that

6:06

is very similar to this one. Yes,

6:08

it was for less money guaranteed. Manaya

6:10

got $14.5 million in 2024, had a

6:12

player option for $13.5 million in 2025,

6:14

which he obviously opted out of after

6:16

he pitched to an ace level for

6:18

the Mets. Montos

6:20

gets more money guaranteed, but the framework

6:23

is very similar and Manaya was not

6:25

coming off a season where he was

6:27

in a starting rotation for 150 innings,

6:29

he was a swingman who had pitched

6:31

a 4-4-E-R-A with the Giants and the

6:34

year before that his last full season

6:36

as a starter he pitched to a

6:38

4-9-6-E-R-A. So if you had

6:40

looked at those two years, it would

6:43

have been a big shock to find

6:45

out that he would get a Cy

6:47

Young vote and pitched to a 747

6:50

ERA and 181 and two third innings

6:52

pitched and looked like an absolute ace

6:54

who just ran out of gas in

6:56

the NLCS, but he did have a

6:59

great start against the Dodgers in game

7:01

two of the NLCS. So, consider what

7:03

the guy has shown, Manaya, another former

7:06

athletic, by the way. Just like Frankie

7:08

Montas. You can understand what they like

7:10

about this signing. You also have Luis

7:13

Severino coming off a 665 ERA with

7:15

the Yankees. And he had not pitched

7:17

over 105 innings since 2018. No one

7:20

would have thought the mess would have

7:22

got over 180 innings and a 391

7:24

ERA out of him. But they did,

7:27

not to mention Jose Cantana and what

7:29

he did at his age for the

7:31

mess this past season. So this is

7:33

leaning into a new strength for the

7:36

New York Mets. Identifying guys who are

7:38

maybe not at their peak value, who

7:40

you think you can get back to

7:43

that level. You look back at Frankie

7:45

Montos' career and he peaked in 2021

7:47

and really leading into 2022. 2021 he

7:50

finished six in the Siong voting for

7:52

the athletics, pitched to a 3-37-E-R-A, he

7:54

made 32 starts so he took the

7:57

ball every fifth day, 187 innings, 290.

7:59

strikeouts, that's a strike out per nine

8:01

rate in the double digits. Really impressive

8:03

stuff. 2022, he pitched to a 318

8:06

ERA in Oakland in 19 starts, 104

8:08

and two third innings pitched, gets traded

8:10

at the deadline to the New York

8:13

Yankees. That was the deadline where Louise

8:15

Castile and Frankie Montas were the two

8:17

big names on the market and Montas

8:20

goes to the Yankees for four prospects,

8:22

Lou Trevino also went to the Yankees

8:24

in that deal. Those prospects, according to

8:27

Emily and we've pipeloned at the time,

8:29

are ranked at number five, number 10,

8:31

number 20, and number 21. So a

8:34

pretty significant hall for Montas. Now, he

8:36

ended up having a shoulder injury, so

8:38

he pitched poorly for the Yankees and

8:40

limited starts, gets shut down, gets the

8:43

surgery, doesn't come back until the very

8:45

end of 2023, and then this past

8:47

year was his first year coming off

8:50

that surgery, and again. Not the best

8:52

success when we look at his ERA,

8:54

but his stuff ticked up when he

8:57

got traded from the Reds to the

8:59

Brewers. And the more I looked at

9:01

the data behind this signing and looked

9:04

at what Frankie Montas did this past

9:06

year and what he did before that.

9:09

The more I saw what the

9:11

Mets are looking at, which is

9:13

a guy that still has, very

9:15

good fastball, still just 32 years

9:17

old going to the next season,

9:19

he's 31 now, he'll be going

9:21

to his age 32 season. who

9:23

over the last couple years, despite

9:26

the shoulder surgery, 2021, 2021, 2022,

9:28

and this past season, he did

9:30

show at least that he was

9:32

a quality enough big league starting

9:34

pitcher to take the ball every

9:36

fifth day. There's a ceiling and

9:38

there's a floor. You hope that

9:40

last year is the floor and

9:42

if it is and you get

9:44

a four ADRA and 150 innings,

9:46

it's not the best, but it's

9:48

also 150 innings. But the upside

9:51

that we saw in 2021 and 2022, that's what the Mets are signing

9:53

here. That's what they're hoping for. I'll explain why they could get it

9:55

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So All right was

11:48

different about Frankie about

11:51

past year this past year than

11:53

in 2021 and Well, I'll

11:55

tell you what

11:57

wasn't different. The velocity

11:59

on his fastball,

12:01

he averaged 96 miles

12:03

per hour per hour in

12:05

2021 and 2022 This past

12:07

season, miles per hour and

12:09

hour. there was an there

12:12

was an uptick in

12:14

when he he went

12:16

from the red. the Brewers. Batters

12:18

hit 206 against his fastball, 248 against

12:20

his sinker. His cutter did get rocked

12:22

a little bit. Batters hit 326 against

12:24

it with a 609 slug, but his

12:26

split was still nasty. He got whisked

12:28

42.6% of the time. Batters hit 218

12:31

against his splitter. They only slug 297.

12:33

Slider had a good whiff rate as

12:35

well at 32.5%. Batters hit 288 against

12:37

it. Slug pretty good against it as

12:39

well. 577. Now. 2021-22 he was getting

12:41

more induced vertical break on his fastball.

12:43

Now what does that mean? Induced vertical

12:45

break is essentially a ride on the

12:47

fastball. That's that fastball that's up in

12:49

the zone that hitters just can't quite

12:52

get to. It's that that perceived ride

12:54

on the fastball. Now in 2021-22 the

12:56

induced vertical break on his fastball, his

12:58

foreseam, was around 17 inches. This past

13:00

year it was 15 inches. Now,

13:03

he also had more induced vertical break, actually

13:05

significantly more induced vertical break on his sinker,

13:07

or his two seam fastball back in 2021,

13:09

five inches of difference from what was that

13:12

in 2021 to this past season. So that

13:14

is one thing you can look at. is

13:16

getting induced vertical break on his fastball. And

13:18

I was doing all my own, you know,

13:21

dive into this and I actually found a

13:23

really good thread on it as well from

13:25

Isaac Gruffman that you can find over on

13:28

Twitter or X. And he talked about that.

13:30

He was actually able to really isolate the

13:32

Brewers numbers from the Brewers. And he noticed

13:34

that with the Brewers, they moved his arm

13:37

angle up seven degrees. And that got some

13:39

more right on the fastball. it wasn't significant

13:41

it was half of an inch but I

13:44

guess half an inch is pretty significant we're

13:46

talking about induced vertical break bottom line the

13:48

brewers were able to get him to throw

13:50

that fastball up in the zone with a

13:53

little more success they got more whiff on

13:55

the fastball then he had previously with the

13:57

reds and more velocity he also adds some

14:00

to his slider Isaac notes add some

14:03

depth to it. What I also identified

14:05

here though, just baseline with what he

14:07

did well last year and what he's

14:09

been throughout his career. Okay, you look

14:12

at who he is. He is more

14:14

of a pronator than a supernator. Now

14:16

this is kind of getting really into

14:18

the weeds but I want you to

14:21

follow me down this this line a

14:23

little bit. Pronators are guys

14:25

like Christian Scott. Okay, these are guys

14:27

who are fast ball pitchers. The easiest

14:30

way to describe it. Let me see

14:32

on the camera if my, I'm a

14:34

righty, left hand is probably better for

14:36

the camera, so I'll try it lefty.

14:38

I don't even know. I think, I

14:41

don't know who that autograph is on

14:43

this ball I got, but bottom line

14:45

if you're watching on YouTube. Pronators are

14:47

guys who throw good fastballs. That is

14:50

where the palm is facing forward. These

14:52

guys have a lot of success

14:55

by being able to throw fastballs,

14:57

change-ups, sinkers, cutters to a certain

14:59

degree depending on the shape of

15:01

their cutter. But it's guys who

15:03

typically are good fastball pitchers. Those

15:05

are guys who are really good

15:07

at fastball and split. And that's

15:10

what you're looking at with Frankie

15:12

Montas. He's got a good fastball.

15:14

He's got a nasty split finger.

15:16

So, what do I think the

15:18

Mets might have identified here that

15:20

they like? if they

15:23

can get more ride on his

15:25

fastball, as well as his sinker

15:27

as two seam. Get a little

15:29

more ride on it. That's going

15:31

to help and that's what we

15:33

saw at the Brewers. They adjusted

15:35

his armingle, they got a little

15:37

more ride. But I also wonder,

15:39

he did have some more depth

15:41

on his slider this past year,

15:43

that's great. What I'm curious about

15:45

is if he has thrown a

15:47

gyro slider. I don't know.

15:49

I'm not entirely sure if he's got

15:52

a dryer slide or not. But if

15:54

it was me and I was looking

15:56

at this just based on the fact

15:59

that he is typical pro nator. Very

16:01

similar to Christian Scott, what unlocked him?

16:03

The gyro slider. So getting that gyro

16:06

working where you aren't a super nator,

16:08

it's about getting around the baseball, right?

16:10

That's a slider, that's a curveball pitcher.

16:13

That's a guy that, you know, it

16:15

really excels at getting that sweep, that

16:17

horizontal movement. And he did get more

16:20

of it on his slider this past

16:22

year than he has previously, which I

16:24

don't think it was a gyro slider.

16:27

angling towards a sweeper. If he can

16:29

figure out a sweeper, that would be

16:31

amazing, right? If he can get that

16:34

horizontal movement, that sweep to it, and

16:36

give you a completely different look, then

16:38

everything else he has work in, that

16:41

would be fantastic. But I am curious

16:43

if we end up learning that they're

16:45

going to lean into him with his

16:48

pronation and get a gyroslider for Frankie

16:50

Montas. This is just me spitballing. If

16:52

they did that, I feel like you

16:55

really are leaning into his strengths. But

16:57

regardless of a gyroslider or not. What

17:00

the Met see with Frankie Montas

17:02

is a guy that has really

17:04

good characteristics on his pitches. He

17:06

is a good ball of clay

17:08

they can mold. He's got good

17:10

stuff. He's shown an ability, now

17:12

that he's got that shoulder surgery,

17:14

throw a hundred and fifty in

17:16

this again, and previously he got

17:19

over a hundred and eighty. So

17:21

that is a skill set that

17:23

a MOB veteran has to develop

17:25

to be able to get through

17:27

the marathon. And the fact that

17:29

he did in 2021 was well

17:31

on his way to doing it

17:33

in 2022 and then just did

17:35

it again after the shoulder surgery.

17:37

I think the Mets are encouraged

17:39

by the fact that they're going

17:41

to get innings out of this

17:43

guy. He has a ceiling that

17:45

they like. and a floor that

17:48

if nothing else is just a

17:50

guy that is going to be

17:52

able to take the ball for

17:54

them and give them innings. I

17:56

think this was a really interesting

17:58

signing. You look at the splits

18:00

between the Reds and the Brewers

18:02

with the Reds. He only struck

18:04

out in and a third innings

18:06

pitch, 78 batters. Once they got

18:08

that more ride on his fastball,

18:10

the velocity ticked up, he struck

18:12

out 70 batters in 57 and

18:14

a third. So that's a drastic

18:17

spike in strikeouts in the same

18:19

season. Remember, David Stearns was with

18:21

the Brewers. The Brewers identified Montas

18:23

as a guy they could fix,

18:25

they traded for him. You're

18:27

going to see some similar thought processes

18:29

from the organization David Stern's built in

18:32

Milwaukee, the one he's running now. So

18:34

it's not surprising that that would be

18:36

a similar target in the Mets would

18:38

be the team that's in trade for

18:40

mid-season, but actually pays him in free

18:43

agency. and they

18:45

are going to try to get

18:47

more out of this guy. And

18:49

maybe it works out, maybe next

18:51

year. You're looking at Frankie Montos

18:53

and he's starting game two of

18:56

the NLCS coming off an amazing

18:58

season where he ends up being

19:00

the Metzase. You never know how

19:02

this stuff's going to work out,

19:04

but the Metz and David Stearns

19:07

for an office have earned the

19:09

benefit of the doubt on this

19:11

one. They've earned it. Are they

19:13

going to hit on all these

19:15

guys? No. This might be God

19:18

they don't hit on. But was

19:20

it a worthwhile gamble to take

19:22

even at two years, $34 million?

19:24

The more you look at his

19:26

stuff, the more you look at

19:28

his past, this is a gamble

19:31

that's worth taking. It's not a

19:33

guy who is pitching to a

19:35

4A-4-E-R-A because this stuff completely evaporated

19:37

coming off shoulder surgery. Now this

19:39

is a guy who had shoulder

19:42

surgery. His stuff is getting close

19:44

to being what it was pre-surgery

19:46

and he got stronger as the

19:48

year went on. Part of that

19:50

was getting to a better organization

19:53

in Milwaukee. But still, that is

19:55

something to build on and just

19:57

like last year we said, what

19:59

are they doing with Shama? Luis

20:01

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20:03

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20:06

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20:08

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20:10

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20:17

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Metz. Well Frankie be the best starting

22:49

pitcher in the pitch this the Mets ad

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I I doubt it think still think

22:53

they're gonna sign an an ace, whether that's Corbin

22:56

Burns, Max Freed, whether they're trading for wanting Garrett Crochet,

22:58

if they just bring and Ia back

23:00

think still think they're in the

23:02

market to sign a a guy guy

23:04

sure I also also think that they're

23:06

gonna sign another another reclamation project who

23:08

it is. It's hard to predict

23:11

I should have identified Frankie when

23:13

I did my my episode 5 under

23:15

the radar starting in free agency

23:17

free was an oversight for

23:20

sure. I went Matthew Boyd, Michael Lorenzin,

23:22

Trevor Williams, Alex Cobb. And the fifth, I just

23:24

I just said bringing back Jose

23:26

Quintana, fifth spot should have

23:28

been have been Montos, oversight by me

23:31

for sure Bular at the at the

23:33

time when I did that

23:35

episode I think I he

23:37

was just going to go

23:39

back to the Dodgers the if

23:41

they if they sign I think

23:44

Walker Bueller is is certainly. in

23:46

the market available to be

23:48

signed away from the Dodgers

23:50

I do think he will

23:52

leave LA But are the

23:55

Mets going to be the

23:57

team that signs them? Who

23:59

knows? We'll see what happens

24:01

I think it might even

24:03

cost more than Montos. Honestly,

24:05

I really don't know considering

24:08

what he did in the

24:10

playoffs I don't know how

24:12

much teams are going to

24:14

buy into that. Also just

24:16

the heights that Walker Buehler has hit in

24:19

his career. He's one of the best post-season pictures of

24:21

the past decade. I mean, that's not even up for

24:23

debate when we look at his stats. But remember, too,

24:25

this was a guy that was contending for Sighons before

24:27

he went down with the second Tommy John's or Jervis

24:30

career. So I'd love them to sign Walker Buehler and

24:32

bet on that ceiling as well as getting an ace.

24:34

Roki Sasaki is still the wild card of this market.

24:36

I think for him considering the fact that he missed

24:38

some time this past year with an injury. It's a

24:40

guy that throws ridiculously hard. He's a young pitcher. If

24:43

you signed him, it would be full control as if

24:45

he's a minor league free agent. So I think Sasaki

24:47

is just in another bucket. The Mets might sign three

24:49

starting pitchers. And if they can win the sweepsticks for

24:51

Sasaki, you win those sweepstakes and you figure it out.

24:54

But right now they're starting rotation. It's Kodai Sanga, David

24:56

Peterson, Frankie Montas, Paul Blackburn, Tyler McGill, Jose Boudo. It's

24:58

pretty much what you're looking at with Brandon Sprote, hopefully

25:00

waiting in the wings and other pitches in the farm

25:02

system, like a Mike Vass, like a Dom Hamel, coming

25:04

off down years, Blade Tidwell, and Down Year as well.

25:07

there's some depth but I don't think

25:09

that the Mets are going to go

25:11

into next season counting on any of those

25:14

guys even Brandon Sprote and I think

25:16

they will fill out their rotation where

25:18

Jose Boudo might be right back in the

25:20

bullpen too so I really think you

25:22

could see the Mets sign two more

25:24

starting pitchers and we'll see exactly who

25:26

those names are I was going to do

25:28

my show today prior to the Monta

25:30

signing on how Scott Boris could packages

25:32

for agents to the Mets

25:34

here. There's a lot of dialogue that's

25:36

going on right now between Scott Boris

25:38

and the Mets because they have a

25:41

lot of similar interests. The Mets obviously,

25:43

at least in some respects, have to

25:45

be in on the market on Peter

25:47

Lanzo. We know they're in on Juan

25:49

Soto. We would think they might be

25:51

interested in bringing Sean Manaya back and

25:53

Corbin Burns is the best starting pitcher

25:55

on the market. Frankie Montas was one

25:57

of those lower level names on Scott

26:00

clientless and he just ended up

26:02

on the Mets. That's not to

26:05

say that this is a precursor

26:07

to the Wong Soto signing, although

26:09

I did tweet that out just

26:11

as a little bit of galaxy

26:14

brain thinking. And is that real?

26:16

Wantsad was not going to make

26:18

his decision based on Frankie Montas,

26:20

no. But what is real about

26:23

that is the fact that the

26:25

Mets are working with Scott Boris

26:27

on multiple different fronts right now.

26:30

and signing more of his

26:32

free agents, that is going

26:34

to make the destination more

26:36

attractive for a burns, for

26:39

a soda. A Montas is

26:41

not going to swing the

26:43

tides, but if you just

26:45

understand Scott Bors' communication to

26:47

his players here, there is

26:49

something to be said about

26:51

how the Mets are being

26:53

presented to a Juan soda,

26:55

to a Corvin Burns, to

26:57

a Frankie Montas, to a

26:59

Frankie Montas. Scott

27:02

Boris had conversation with Montas about

27:04

where he's going to sign and

27:07

looking to find a landing spot

27:09

where Montas could get a one

27:11

plus one deal so gets that

27:13

second year option and this one's

27:15

a player option on a mutual

27:17

option like he signed last time.

27:20

So it's even more of a

27:22

security blanket. I'm

27:24

sure there was other teams that might

27:27

have been in at that dollar amount.

27:29

And the Mets were the team that

27:31

won the bidding probably in part because

27:33

of how well Sean Manaya, his other

27:35

client, did this past season and hoping

27:37

that the Mets would be the team

27:39

that could rebuild Montass's value and those

27:41

conversations between player and agent are, hey,

27:43

you're going to go to the Mets,

27:45

you're going to pitch really well, it's

27:48

going to be a really good team.

27:50

and then you're gonna hit the market

27:52

again and you are gonna be in

27:54

the running to get what I'm trying

27:56

to get for Sean right now which

27:58

is probably like five years and a

28:00

hundred million dollars whether that actually comes

28:02

to fruition or not, that's what they're

28:04

going to be looking for. Because if

28:06

you say Kakuchi can get $63 million,

28:09

another Scott Forrest client, older than Sean

28:11

and I, why can't you attack on

28:13

a couple more years for a guy

28:15

that had a markedly better season overall?

28:17

And that's how this game goes. Are

28:19

those dollar amounts going to be met?

28:22

Is Manai gonna get a nine-figure deal?

28:24

I don't know, I don't think so,

28:27

but you just, you see how the

28:29

market plays out. If you asked me

28:31

yesterday, if Frankie Montas would get $34

28:33

million, I would have said no. Starting

28:35

pictures get paid a lot of money.

28:38

So we'll see, again, doesn't mean that

28:40

Juan Soto, Petalonzo, Corb and Zop, and

28:42

I are going to stop at the

28:44

Mets. But Scott Boris

28:46

is going to send at least another free agent. That's

28:49

not even a bold prediction. I think you're going to

28:51

see at least one more Scott Boris client sign with

28:53

the Mets. And you might see multiple. as the Mets

28:55

are aggressive spenders in this region market and they look

28:57

to build off of an analysis as appearance try to

28:59

get over the hump in 2025. We'll see what's next.

29:02

Hopefully it's Juan Soto. That's the wait and see game

29:04

on tomorrow show. Maybe we'll do a little more on

29:06

Scott Boris or maybe we'll turn our ties to another

29:08

signing. Or another trade idea, who knows what the off-scenes

29:10

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