Does Juan Soto Make the Mets the National League Favorites?

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00:00Does juan soto actually make the mets a favorite to win the national league pennant?

00:05Does he even make them a favorite to win the national league east year after year the odds makers right now jack

00:12Would tell you no. Yes. He did affect the pennant price

00:17But the mets are still behind both the dodgers and the braves to win the national league round

00:22They are still behind atlanta by about 30 cents to win the nl east nl east divisional

00:29Title so jack what impact does juan soto directly have on the new york mets?

00:35Do you agree with the odds that the mets are still the third best team in the nl as a whole?

00:42Yeah, I mean

00:44It's clearly a net boss if i'm not going to sit here and say oh, yeah

00:46Juan soto's a net neutral but at the end of the day like the bottom of that lineup still features an aging starling marce

00:53A guy in brett baity where you have to make a decision on him at some point soon

00:56Jeff mcneil who really struggled I know he was dealing with a bunch of injuries and tyrone taylor is still in centerfield man

01:02Like there's a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be fixed in the new york mets right now

01:07and the good news is

01:09Their farm system is getting a lot better

01:11But you don't sign one soto with the hopes that your farm system is going to be the complimentary pieces

01:16You sign one soto in hopes that you know

01:18The catcher francisco alvarez turns into a top five catcher in baseball either this year or in 2026

01:24You you sign him in hopes that francisco lindor's mvp runner-up

01:29That kind of year is sustainable and and you sign him

01:32Because you feel like the next four years of brandon nimmo are going to be really solid

01:38Now, what does this mean for peter lonzo? What does this mean for first base production?

01:43I have no

01:44Idea, but the mets they're not a finished product with one soto now and my concern

01:51And I do think that the new york mets are the only team that were exempt from this

01:54I thought a one soto contract was going to torpedo a team's ability to spend around him find complimentary pieces because

02:02The price of a complimentary piece is pretty darn high in major league baseball right now

02:07Steve cohen clearly has zero issue spending on complimentary pieces. He clearly has zero issue spending on

02:13The great whale here in one soto

02:15So I I do feel like he's going to spend enough to put together a world series caliber team here

02:22I feel like by the end of the off season

02:25We could be talking about the mets as the favorite in the national league or as the second favorite in the national league

02:31But it's really hard for me to think about a world where the mets are in the same breath as the la dodgers