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Does Juan Soto Make the Mets the National League Favorites?
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12/10/2024
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Does juan soto actually make the mets a favorite to win the national league pennant?
00:05
Does he even make them a favorite to win the national league east year after year the odds makers right now jack
00:12
Would tell you no. Yes. He did affect the pennant price
00:17
But the mets are still behind both the dodgers and the braves to win the national league round
00:22
They are still behind atlanta by about 30 cents to win the nl east nl east divisional
00:29
Title so jack what impact does juan soto directly have on the new york mets?
00:35
Do you agree with the odds that the mets are still the third best team in the nl as a whole?
00:42
Yeah, I mean
00:44
It's clearly a net boss if i'm not going to sit here and say oh, yeah
00:46
Juan soto's a net neutral but at the end of the day like the bottom of that lineup still features an aging starling marce
00:53
A guy in brett baity where you have to make a decision on him at some point soon
00:56
Jeff mcneil who really struggled I know he was dealing with a bunch of injuries and tyrone taylor is still in centerfield man
01:02
Like there's a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be fixed in the new york mets right now
01:07
and the good news is
01:09
Their farm system is getting a lot better
01:11
But you don't sign one soto with the hopes that your farm system is going to be the complimentary pieces
01:16
You sign one soto in hopes that you know
01:18
The catcher francisco alvarez turns into a top five catcher in baseball either this year or in 2026
01:24
You you sign him in hopes that francisco lindor's mvp runner-up
01:29
That kind of year is sustainable and and you sign him
01:32
Because you feel like the next four years of brandon nimmo are going to be really solid
01:38
Now, what does this mean for peter lonzo? What does this mean for first base production?
01:43
I have no
01:44
Idea, but the mets they're not a finished product with one soto now and my concern
01:51
And I do think that the new york mets are the only team that were exempt from this
01:54
I thought a one soto contract was going to torpedo a team's ability to spend around him find complimentary pieces because
02:02
The price of a complimentary piece is pretty darn high in major league baseball right now
02:07
Steve cohen clearly has zero issue spending on complimentary pieces. He clearly has zero issue spending on
02:13
The great whale here in one soto
02:15
So I I do feel like he's going to spend enough to put together a world series caliber team here
02:22
I feel like by the end of the off season
02:25
We could be talking about the mets as the favorite in the national league or as the second favorite in the national league
02:31
But it's really hard for me to think about a world where the mets are in the same breath as the la dodgers
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