0:09

All right, Clay so little night little late night

0:11

magic on Friday. This is not the

0:13

former New York waiting for, been waiting for,

0:15

but $39 million, as three years, Passon, million to give

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you reported by Jeff immediate We're here to

0:19

give you our instant and immediate reaction.

0:21

a minute, James has kind of been talking

0:23

about this one for a minute and

0:25

especially now Clay the new wrinkle that

0:27

Jeff Passin put out, New Clay Holmes will

0:29

be used as a starter for the

0:31

New York to be I mean, James, be

0:33

David this to he's listening. He has to

0:35

be listening to this podcast. podcast. Either he's

0:38

listening we're just just so inside of his head that

0:40

we can forecast all these moves before they're going

0:42

to happen It's all the exact reasons we we said

0:44

this going to happen The fact that you could

0:46

get someone who possibly has a legitimate a legitimate at

0:48

way under star their market value price And just he he

0:50

has all the tools in his tool bag to

0:52

be a successful starter and the fact that fact

0:55

that All these relievers that are in the major league, were

0:57

all starters for most of their life. life. Clark Holmes was a star

0:59

there and a half years ago, four years ago. ago, four

1:01

years ago. So it's not that long removed from doing it.

1:03

He's a a he's He's a massive dude. He has tons

1:05

of really good pitches. He was super has tons of really good

1:07

pitches, know he got a lot of shit. he was super

1:09

blowing saves, crew, which was super effective, saves, crew, he was, his

1:11

was awesome. was literally for the last three

1:13

years, one of the most effective he was, in

1:15

baseball. pitches, really good pitches, when you break he down, one

1:17

of the pitches, really most effective relievers in baseball.

1:19

really all that together. was, he was, really a lot

1:21

of undue hate. pitches, he coming to us blow good pitches,

1:23

he was, he was, I love this move. And I I at

1:25

the at the end of the day too, let's

1:27

just in a world where the starter thing

1:30

doesn't work. Cause I think that's a possibility. For

1:32

sure. I know you're leaning towards that this could

1:34

be could be a good thing. We'll go down go balls, avenues, yeah.

1:36

But But. million a year for the for the next three

1:38

years who will just be an expensive reliever

1:40

at the end of this bullpen Which wouldn't

1:42

be the worst thing either because we know

1:44

how people and us included would freak out

1:46

at the time at the end Of the

1:48

year when the year would come in to get

1:50

big will either way either way, either Zagor, you here and

1:52

it feels like it's just just a good

1:54

move by the the Mets. is also the first

1:57

free agent prediction. I've gotten right this off-season. Check

1:59

my video on my YouTube channel. draft Nick Mark, Clay Homes

2:01

to the Mets, I called it. Yeah, totally. This

2:03

is like, this is Andrew Heeney money, this is

2:05

Robling money, this is Kyle Freeland money, this is

2:07

what we gave Sean and I, Louis Severino last

2:09

year, and then also like slightly less than Rice

2:11

Ella Glacius makes, Kenta Mayeta, like this is Robert

2:13

Stevens, it's almost the same to Robert Stevenson contract

2:15

last year. this is in the range of well

2:18

above average reliever to well below average starter. So

2:20

with that, you kind of figure that Clay Holmes'

2:22

floor is still a well above average reliever. If

2:24

you're paying Clay Holmes a million less than Brycella

2:26

Glace's year for fewer years, you don't really feel

2:28

that bad about it. And then if you're paying

2:30

him basically the same amount of money as Andrew

2:32

Hee and he becomes an actual mid rotation starting

2:34

picture, suddenly you're like, oh my God, we just,

2:36

this was a coup, we just made out like

2:39

bandits. So let's talk about him as a starting

2:41

pitcher because I think everybody understands what he'll be

2:43

as a reliever as of right now. But as

2:45

a starting pitcher, the questions that I had when

2:47

we first brought this up was just he's a

2:49

sinkerball pitcher, like and he's a guy who his

2:51

stuff got better when he made that switch with

2:53

the Yankees and became more of a sinkerball pitcher,

2:55

right? I believe was kind of what he was

2:57

rocking. I think totally. I think the sinker baller

2:59

thing is huge because we talked about this a

3:02

couple episodes ago and we talked about bargain starting

3:04

pitchers, relievers that could become starters, why it could

3:06

work for Clay Holmes. Clay Holmes has a 68.6

3:08

grand ball percentage since the beginning of the 2022

3:10

season. That would be by far the highest for

3:12

any starting pitcher and it's the second highest for

3:14

any reliever. The only reliever with a higher ground

3:16

ball rate was Andre Palante from the Cardinals, who

3:18

they made a star of there. And it went

3:20

up and down a little bit. Stuff's nowhere near

3:22

as good as Clay Homes, but it objectively kind

3:25

of worked for most of the time. So the

3:27

fact that just thinking about this, pull the back

3:29

from the logic sense. When you're pitching one inning

3:31

at a time versus five innings at a time.

3:33

the ground balls are working worse when you're in

3:35

to have these one-ending samples because a lot more

3:37

random this can happen inside the one ending. If

3:39

you give up a ground ball to slightly the

3:41

wrong spot or even the right spot for Yankees

3:43

infield that was objectively horrible at defense besides Anthony

3:46

Volpe you're in a much worse spot suddenly you

3:48

have a man on fire you got

3:50

to play differently. play A

3:52

lot of the things can

3:54

snowball quickly one one when

3:56

you give up a lot

3:58

of of contact. Clay gives up

4:00

a lot of contact.

4:02

It's not very good good contact.

4:04

it's very bad contact

4:06

But just contact in general

4:09

works worse as That's That's

4:11

why people want their closers

4:13

to get strikeouts That's

4:15

why why I got like so valuable

4:17

so valuable. Josh Hay there. Ryan Pressa was at

4:19

his peak. When you get, and that's why Emmanuel of had to

4:21

go through his own metamorphosis to become more of

4:23

a to in the last year or else he was

4:25

never going to reach the true he of being the

4:27

best reliever in baseball. Like he now being the best reliever

4:30

in the fact that... he now obviously you

4:32

boil it all down, that when you boil

4:34

ultra, ultra, ultra ultra, ultra ground That works

4:36

much better for 150 innings and

4:38

it works for for 60. Yeah, and And when

4:40

you explained that to me me over text a

4:42

couple days ago, when this came up, we

4:44

were even talking about about it as possible starter, which

4:46

is insane how our brain works where it's

4:48

like, it's like a Tuesday, I'm going into

4:50

the city, I'm texting James like, what you

4:52

think like what as you think that's real? homes just

4:54

the you think have that's just off the podcast, which

4:56

is why we do the podcast we do but

4:58

podcast here but expanding it over over innings, it

5:00

totally makes more makes more sense thing even the

5:02

thing of like about the hitters we preach about We want

5:04

guys that that we want on this team. We want guys

5:06

to hit the ball in the air. We want guys that

5:08

drive the baseball. you When you hit the ball on the

5:10

ground, when Francisco Alvarez hitting the ball on the ground earlier

5:12

in the year, we were like, we don't love this hitting the

5:14

really earlier best damage you're going to do on a ground

5:16

ball was hitting the ball in keep the ball out of

5:18

the air, you keep the ball in the the good

5:20

especially with good that the Mets have, that this

5:22

can be a recipe for success for that the Mets have.

5:24

An easy recipe for success. Another thing I at

5:26

at the top is that he a built like

5:28

a starting pitcher. two, fifty. It's five, that's body that can stand huge.

5:30

so to start his workload. Then you a body that can

5:33

stand the nitty gritty. First of all these pitches. First deep like really get

5:35

the the nitty gritty of all these pitches. First

5:37

of all, that first. Then you like get deep and like about nitty

5:39

gritty of all these talk about First of all mentioned pitches. First of all

5:41

these a First of all these worried about the these pitches. dropping

5:43

pitches. of course, all when you're pitching, of all again,

5:45

four or five, six innings, rather than one or

5:47

two innings, you're gonna lose a couple of

5:49

takes on that fastball. The fact that Holmes all of

5:51

all of all of all these pitches. gets of to 98 all of all

5:53

of all of all of all he's probably going to settle

5:55

in around 95 miles an hour, which is above

5:57

average average for a starting pitcher. starting right there,

5:59

bang, bang, like that's one. checkbox for why a reliever can become

6:01

a starter. Second of all, the next thing we need for

6:03

a checkbox, he has really good command. Holmes doesn't walk a

6:05

lot of batters. I think he walked a few more batters

6:07

as a reliever than he was a starter. Similar to what

6:09

I was talking about before, where it's like you, it gets

6:11

a little more tense in those late innings, so you kind

6:14

of walk a guy and give up some hard contact, so

6:16

I think. I think he was maybe a little working around

6:18

the edges more than he would there, but above average zone

6:20

rate, through pitches in the strike zone, more than league average,

6:22

a little, a couple percentage points more in league average. So

6:24

I think that's a big checkbox. Next checkbox, probably the most

6:26

important checkbox, is that his three pitches that he spanned as

6:28

a closer, his sinker, his sweeper and his gyroslighter are all

6:30

super elite outlier pitches in their own right. The sinker especially

6:32

is probably one of the most unique pitches unique pitches in

6:34

baseball. This is all coming from Lance Brasdowski's video about why

6:36

Clay Holmes and Jeff Hoffman could be a successful star. They

6:38

put out like a month and a half ago. Yeah, he'd

6:40

been mentioning that Ben Brewster from Tread had been mentioning this

6:42

who actually trains Clay Home. So I think this has been

6:45

a real thing that they've been doing. And Eli Ben Perretta,

6:47

they've been mentioning this who actually trains Clay Home. So I

6:49

think this has been a real thing that. A real thing

6:51

that they've been. This has been a real thing that has

6:53

been a real thing. This has been a real thing. This

6:55

has been a real thing that has been a real thing

6:57

that has been a real thing that has been a real

6:59

thing that has been a real thing that has been a

7:01

real thing that has been a real thing that has been

7:03

a real thing that has been a real thing that has

7:05

been a real thing that has been a real thing that

7:07

has been a real thing that has been a real thing

7:09

that has been a real thing that has been a real

7:11

thing that has been a Why I'm so don't change our

7:14

life. Clay Holmes will make it better. Yes. Well, we're not

7:16

there. We're not there. It's a Friday night. We don't know

7:18

what's going to happen the end of the weekend. But this

7:20

is that right from Lance's video. For all right-handed pictures, Holmes

7:22

is the only one with a sinker that had the release

7:24

height higher than 6.4 feet and below 5 inches of inverted

7:26

vertical break on that sinker. And it's 6. point six foot

7:28

release site so yeah more than six and a half feet

7:30

release site mostly because he's just a horse and he has

7:32

a really up like up and down release point on that

7:34

on that whatever he throws a pitch but what that really

7:36

means is that a much simpler thing is clay homes the

7:38

sinker drops way more than the pitch is expected to drop

7:40

based on the way it comes out of his hand it's

7:43

and it will continue to be surprising to hitters because where

7:45

his arm angle is and the way he's throwing that pitch

7:47

just drops much more than than

7:49

the expect. That's why he can

7:51

spam that pitch over and

7:53

over and over again. and And

7:55

it never, ever, ever gets up.

7:57

up. And it makes him able

7:59

to throw that pitch against

8:01

both and and lefties out of

8:03

a really, really, really effective way.

8:05

one And that's going to be

8:07

one most important things to

8:09

making him a starter. Yeah, I mean,

8:12

when becoming a starter, that's kind

8:14

of the difference between right now,

8:16

a modern now, a starter Major a

8:18

guy in the past guy like,

8:20

they didn't really think about

8:22

this. Can he get left think

8:24

Can he get right handed batters

8:26

left-handed But Clay Holmes can do

8:28

both. get we're not. Not even

8:30

really a year removed from him being

8:32

one of the most dominant can do both. Major

8:34

League Baseball the last couple really Ever

8:36

since he stepped into the Bronx with

8:39

the Yankees, he's been incredible. in Over a

8:41

baseball the and a half, four year stretch,

8:43

a 269 ERA, a whip at 1.1, at 1 .1, a

8:45

fit at 2 numbers over 200 numbers over

8:47

200 of of again, of course, this is

8:49

clay homes, him as a reliever, throwing

8:51

98 miles an hour. an hour. He was

8:53

was great. lost the And I know to Luke Weaver by the end of the year. I

8:55

think that to a vibes thing. The by the end of the year. Clay

8:57

Holmes I think that was more of a getting thing. The

8:59

vibes were very off at that point the Yankees the Luke Weaver he

9:01

been the guy we're like shit. This is a really, really hard guy to piece up. You

9:04

kind of almost think about the games when like hits to get the Yankees

9:06

at the stadium, when he come in the game we're like, run.

9:08

It's very difficult and score is and score run. really hard guy

9:10

to run. up. difficult and of almost have to walk It's

9:12

very get a couple very hits to get the

9:14

ball through the infield and score a run. It's

9:16

very difficult. difficult. That big size size the has,

9:18

the big extension, that crazy arm it makes him

9:20

a very a very at bat. always did. it always

9:22

did I Yankees a lot of credit for what

9:24

they did with him when they kind of

9:26

made him into this monster. they him out

9:29

of nowhere. into this with the him was horrible. he

9:31

It was, I think, a mid -season he in

9:33

2021 think a of nowhere where they 2021 from out of nowhere

9:35

where they traded I I want to say it it was

9:37

Diego Park and it was Diego Castillo and Hoy Park in 2021 for Clay

9:39

Holmes it's like like psychotic I I just pulled

9:41

that name out yeah I yeah, I remember it up

9:43

it up at the time being like

9:45

I think Clay because I was I was doing

9:47

that thing like best best relievers You never

9:49

heard and think the clay homes it because immediately immediately

9:51

Yankees got rid of his his Which was

9:53

getting hit very hard hard they gave him which

9:55

has become has become one of the best

9:57

in baseball in terms of vertical movement horizontal movement

9:59

swing and miss completely ridiculous and a gyro slider and

10:01

the gyro slider is a real big key here

10:04

I talk about that in the show a lot

10:06

It's a slider that kind of falls over like

10:08

spinning like a bullet It's really good also it's

10:10

really good like spinning like a bullet It's really

10:12

good also it gets right these and lefties so

10:14

that pitch is going to be foundational into what

10:17

is going to be able to start there and

10:19

something that was crazy to me when looking into

10:21

this before we did this episode He threw that

10:23

gyro slider more often than his sweeper to right-handed

10:25

batters. That's how disgustingly platoon neutral that pitch was

10:27

and how, how when he get, when you get

10:30

into a bad against him against righty, you're just,

10:32

you're kind of done. You look like, you really

10:34

don't have anything to do with that sweeper, with

10:36

that sinker, sweeper, gyro, it's just, everything comes out

10:38

you in the same arm angle, they all look

10:40

exactly same until the last second, it's amazing, it's

10:43

amazing. And then I think something is also going

10:45

to be really really really important for Clay Holmes

10:47

becoming a starter. It's just simply leaving Yankee Stadium

10:49

for City Field. It would be huge. Massive because

10:51

something the Yankees also did with him was they

10:53

got rid of the four-team fastball and spanned the

10:56

sinker. I think that sometimes teams, like the Fourseam

10:58

fastball and spanned the sinker, I think that sometimes

11:00

teams, like the four-seam fastball and span the sinker,

11:02

can come up. Yeah, but like when the Lefties

11:04

come up, we already have a beat on Clay

11:06

Holmes, because you don't really have a breaking ball

11:09

that's really going to be dominant against them, just

11:11

the jaroside, which is very good against them. You

11:13

can sit on that fastball, and again, it's not

11:15

good, so you can easily just pop it in

11:17

the air and you get to the over the

11:20

fence, suddenly, night, it gets games, it's not good,

11:22

so you can easily just pop it in the

11:24

air, and you get to get it over the

11:26

fence, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, night, night, night, it,

11:28

it, it gets, it, it, it, it, it gets,

11:30

it, it, it, it gets, it, it gets, it,

11:33

it, it, it, it, it, it's, it's, it's, it's,

11:35

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

11:37

it's, it's, it another pitch if he's gonna really

11:39

go crazy. Whether it be the fastball, which you

11:41

start throwing a little bit more in the playoffs,

11:43

whether it's a change-up, but the change-up's gonna be

11:46

a weird thing for him to do because when

11:48

he throws, it's called supernation, where his wrist goes

11:50

outward, his thumb flicks away, his wrist goes outward,

11:52

his thumb flicks away from his thumb flicks, his

11:54

thumb flicks away from his thumb flicks away from

11:56

his thumb flicks away from his thumb flicks away

11:59

from his thumb flicks, it once in a while

12:01

and then show a fastball, maybe try the splitter

12:03

like read Garrett. I don't know, but he's going

12:05

with any other pitch, but I think there's a

12:07

lot more wiggle room for him to learn a

12:09

new pitch when he's not playing little league ballpark.

12:12

We grabbed the Yankees guy too, right? Didn't we

12:14

just grab him? Yes, he drew shell. Yeah, I

12:16

was gonna mention that. The Yankees assistant pitching coach,

12:18

who I'm sure. Also forgot, he worked the Montes

12:20

as well, which I just just clicked to me

12:22

in my brain. But yeah. Yeah, two former Yankees

12:25

pitchers now gonna be the middle of our rotation.

12:27

I just think there's, as weirdly, there's a lot

12:29

of ways to make this work for clay homes.

12:31

You know, I think for the money it costs,

12:33

like I just said before, it seems to me

12:35

that there's a lot more upside and downside in

12:38

this deal. I mean we just

12:40

we just saw Louise Severino who loved Louise Severino he

12:42

was great last year he just signed a 23 million

12:44

dollar a year contract with the Oakland with the athletics

12:46

they're not there just the athletics ATH that's their thing

12:49

the pitching market's out of control the pitching market's crazy

12:51

expensive right now I don't know what happened I guess

12:53

you're just paying for innings to be able to possibly

12:55

get starting pitching innings out of clay homes this year

12:57

it is totally worth the risk because at the absolute

13:00

worst you just get a nasty reliever again which we

13:02

could use more of Yeah, and he's this contract and

13:04

how good he is, makes it worthwhile for him to

13:06

just be a nasty reliever. But as a starter, the

13:08

upside becomes insane. Kind of limitless. And it was interesting,

13:11

I don't know if you saw it, I know you've

13:13

been off Twitter, I know you've been off Twitter. Frankie

13:15

Mata said literally in his, in his Zoom press conference,

13:17

co-joining the mess, that he spoke to Sean Manaya and

13:19

said, you know, about being with the mess and what

13:22

it was. And he said they gave him, they gave

13:24

him confidence, they gave him confidence, he said, he said,

13:26

he said, they gave him confident, he said, he said,

13:28

he said, he said, they gave him, he said, they

13:30

gave him, he said, he said, they gave him, he

13:33

said, he said, they gave him, he said, he said,

13:35

he said, he said, he said, he, he said, he

13:37

said, he said, he said, he, he, he said, he

13:39

said, It's amazing. So we're now, like, we predicted this

13:41

season. You said it first. The Mets are now have

13:44

this shine on them where pitchers are like, oh, I

13:46

can go to the Mets for a year and then

13:48

I will make more money that could have ever imagined

13:50

on the other side of that. Like, Luis, you know,

13:53

it's just got $70 million guaranteed. Last year, he barely

13:55

got Drew Smiley. From a team that doesn't spend any

13:57

money. It's the highest paid player in the athletics. Yes,

13:59

there you go. Bring full circle, bag, Mets, and Yankees

14:01

all together here. But I think all that comes together

14:04

and makes, again, a lot of Upper Clay Homes. But

14:06

we have to say why this could not work. It's

14:08

definitely possible it doesn't work. It's always possible it doesn't

14:10

work. It's always possible it doesn't work. It's always possible

14:12

it doesn't work. It's always possible it doesn't work. It's

14:15

always possible it doesn't work. It's always possible it doesn't

14:17

work. It doesn't work. It's always possible it doesn't work.

14:19

It's always possible it doesn't work. It's always possible it

14:21

doesn't work. It's always possible it doesn't work. It's doesn't

14:23

work. It's always possible it doesn't work. It's doesn't work.

14:26

It's always possible it doesn't work. It's doesn't work. It's

14:28

always possible it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's always

14:30

possible it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's Check the

14:32

miners. Oh, okay, I'll check the miners too, you keep

14:34

talking. So I think that's a big deal here. Another

14:37

thing is that Clay Holmes, because what the pitches he

14:39

had, what? Miners 2016, he through 136, 2017, through 112.

14:41

I will say, in AAA, in 2017, as a starting

14:43

pitcher, he had a 3, 3, 6 ERA. So, I

14:45

mean, it's not majors, but that's proof of him pitching

14:48

at a starting, pitching level. Oh, well for sure take

14:50

that. The other thing that worries me about Clay Holmes,

14:52

which is why I keep talking about learning a new

14:54

pitch, kind of understanding your ballpark a little bit, is

14:56

that he just simply is not, he doesn't have a

14:59

great bag against lefties. No. But I mean, this, like,

15:01

I said this all time, about Severino last year, too.

15:03

He got through a whole season with three of the

15:05

R.A. But with Clay Holmes, last year, against lefties, it

15:08

was stark. He had a 24% wiffer against left against

15:10

lefties, he's, he's, 36% against lefties, 36% against lefties, 36%

15:12

against lefties, he against lefties, he against lefties, 36% against

15:14

left, he, he, he, he gets, he gets, he gets,

15:16

36% against left, he, he gets, he, he gets, 36%

15:19

against left, he, he gets, he gets, he gets, 36%

15:21

against left, he, he, he's, he Righties had a 238

15:23

batting average and 361 slugging. Lefties had a 258 batting

15:25

average and 330-3 slugging. So still low slugging because of

15:27

all the singers. And then Lefties had a 311 X

15:30

woeba, I mean 311 X woeba and righties had a

15:32

254 X woeba. He was better, significantly better than League's

15:34

had a 254 X woeba. He was better, significantly better

15:36

than leagueing than League average. But the one way if

15:38

this doesn't work out for Clay Holmes in a really

15:41

good way is in a really good way is if.

15:43

No more pitches can develop at least at least even

15:45

just to show even if you can just show off

15:47

a curveball and a fastball That's enough. Yeah. It's enough

15:49

to confuse him a little bit That's like that was

15:52

how Seth Lugo has done these crazy things in the

15:54

last few years. He'll just go out there and throw

15:56

different pitches. Some of them aren't even good. Most of

15:58

them aren't even good. No. The exact opposite thing we

16:00

used to say about him and he was a reliever

16:03

here. But I guess he was just always trying to

16:05

be a starter. And he was right in the hat

16:07

tip to Seth Lugo. Maybe this is just the divine.

16:09

This is the kickback. This is the karma for all

16:11

the Seth Lugo bullshit that we dealt with over the

16:14

years and missing out on that. But. The one way

16:16

this doesn't work out for Clay Homes is if the

16:18

starless workload is too much for him initially, but I

16:20

trust his starly workload in the minor leagues and just

16:23

his big body to do that, and if there's no

16:25

more weapons that can be developed to help him against

16:27

left-handed batters. Yeah, and I think those are all very

16:29

fair concerns, like to not just be the overly positive

16:31

guys like we've been told about Frankie Montas, like there

16:34

are things that can go wrong here, there are things

16:36

to monitor. But luckily, we seem to have one of

16:38

the best pitching development in all of Major League Baseball.

16:40

We seem to have the best pitching coach maybe in

16:42

all of Major League Baseball and Jeremy Hefner. And we

16:45

just got the guy from the Yankees, who's been given

16:47

a lot of credit, who's probably an integral reason as

16:49

to why Clay Holmes is on this team as well.

16:51

Totally. And across the Yankees whole organization, this is crazy.

16:53

They've lost one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven,

16:56

eight coaches between their Major League team, and minor league

16:58

and minor league team so far this off-season. That's off-off.

17:00

That's off-season. That's off- so far this off- so far

17:02

this off- so far this off-season. That's so many. That's

17:04

so many. That's so many. That's an exodus. That is

17:07

a very big deal. And we got the one who

17:09

was from their major league team, who allowed those pictures

17:11

credit a lot with their improved pitch design and game

17:13

planning, which is massive. One more exodus that matters from

17:15

that New York Yankees team. One more than Matt is

17:18

a lot. One more than Matt is a lot. We

17:20

can't get through an episode without talking about one soda.

17:22

So I do want to do two minutes here to

17:24

close. How this can possibly actually affect one soda, because

17:26

I galaxy brand for the first second I saw it.

17:29

I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. I

17:31

saw it. I saw it. I saw. I saw it.

17:33

I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. This

17:35

is the kind of move you make when you're probably

17:38

not going to throw hard on an ace at the

17:40

end of the off-season. You're probably not going to throw

17:42

hard on ace at the end of the off-season if

17:44

you've built a really good mid-rotation and you just spent

17:46

$700 million on a right-fielder. There it is. There it

17:49

is. I mean you can... this up the bets were

17:51

so close to having nothing. I think the deleting of

17:53

the account only further confirms that was for sure his

17:55

son and he said something he was not supposed to.

17:57

And if you guys are also just deep on Twitter

18:00

all day long, you saw the account Anthony 03466, 566,

18:02

yeah, be like here, I post things on a burner

18:04

account so I don't get in trouble, if you want

18:06

to take you to the grain of salt you can,

18:08

I'm told one so I made a decision, blah blah

18:11

blah blah. I'm not going to take that seriously, mess,

18:13

blah blah blah blah. I'm not going to take that

18:15

seriously, blah blah blah blah. I'm not going to take

18:17

that seriously, mess, mess, blah blah blah blah blah blah

18:19

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I. I.

18:22

I'm. I'm. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not

18:24

going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going.

18:26

I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm going. I'm going.

18:28

I'm going. I'm going. I'm. I'm. I'm going. I'm. I'm.

18:30

I'm going. I'm. I'm and it followed three people initially.

18:33

It was Major League Baseball, Jeff Passon, Anthony de Como.

18:35

And then they unfiled Anthony de Como within the last

18:37

couple of hours. Nice, that's good. Little spicy, little spicy,

18:39

little spicy, but then also. Yeah, then the last thing

18:41

though, I do think that this, and we've been saying

18:44

it all off scenes, was not a surprise, I think

18:46

this is the last like. stake right there that we're

18:48

not going to go after Corb Mearns, we're not going

18:50

to go after Max Reed. We saw Shane Bieber sign

18:53

a contract for Mapoid Money on Friday afternoon. It's just,

18:55

I think that we knew it, but I think this

18:57

fully takes the Mets out of it. And again, thinking

18:59

about- You just did it. And also, like, they might

19:01

have just gotten like legitimate three and four starters combined

19:04

for under $30 million dollars. Yeah. with Luis Evreno is

19:06

getting more almost that much not almost that much but

19:08

he's getting like three 70% of that much next year

19:10

himself yeah and again the the eyes on the prize

19:12

it's all about Juan Soto if you don't get Juan

19:15

Soto this picture talk could be completely moot and they

19:17

might be like we got to go get Corbin Burns

19:19

we got to go Mac get Max free it might

19:21

turn into that but Or the other side of that

19:23

is if you don't get one so though, which is

19:26

something that I think is becoming increasing long possibility. Not

19:28

that we don't get so though, but I think that

19:30

the pivot would be not, let's spend as much money

19:32

as we can, the pivot is, let's do what we

19:34

did last year, but with no dead money, and let's

19:37

do what we did last year, but with no dead

19:39

money, and let's do what we did last year, but

19:41

with no dead money, and let's, let's, do what we

19:43

did, we got to do, we got to do, we

19:45

got to do, we got to do, and I can't

19:48

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