Answering all your New York Mets offseason questions with a Mega-Mailbag episode

The Mets Pod

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Connor Rogers, Ny Mets, Sny, New York Mets, Joe Demayo, Mets, The Mets Pod, Baseball, Joe De Mayo, Andy Martino, Keith Hernandez, Sports, Mlb

4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On the latest episode of The Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac, Connor Rogers and Joe DeMayo officially kick off their coverage of the Mets offseason by turning the show over to the fans and opening up a Mega-Mailbag! The guys take on questions about coaching staff changes, free agent targets, trade possibilities, the future of Pete Alonso (again), Edwin Diaz’ opt out options, dealing away prospects, position changes, the Japanese market, and so much more. 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, opening up the Mega-Mailbag 01:45 Coaching changes and ideas to replace the ones who are gone 08:10 Free agent targets 10:50 Edwin Diaz future 11:55 Pete Alonso future 17:35 Freddy Peralta and other pitching trade options 25:05 Should the Mets trade Jonah Tong? 28:00 An urgent Stearns move? 29:05 How does the looming labor situation affect this offseason? 32:40 The future of first base five pack of questions 39:20 The Japanese market 44:40 Christian Scott’s role in 2026? 47:15 What to do at catcher? 48:30 Ranking trade odds 52:45 Down on the Farm: Calvin Ziegler and Matt Allan

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac.
0:03.0	On today's show, we got a mega bail bag for you.
0:05.1	So you got the questions. Hopefully Joe and I have plenty of answers on the coaching staff, the lineup, and everybody's wondering how David Surns is going to fix this pitching staff, and even the bullpen a little bit throughout this off season. So subscribe to the Mets Pod at Apple Podcast. Spotify, you can watch every episode on SMY's YouTube channel
0:22.6	or wherever you get your shows.
0:32.3	What's up, everybody?
0:33.3	Welcome to the Mets pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac Performance Range
0:36.7	Style three different ways to make every drive an occasion. Whatever your reason, there's never been a better time to say. Let's take the Cadillac, the all-electric Cadillac family of vehicles, Escalate IQ, Vistic Optic, and Lyric. Visit your Tri-State Cadillac dealer today. I'm your host, Connor Rogers, joined as always by my co-host, Joe DeMeo.
0:55.4	And Joe, we promised that the mega mailbag is here.
0:58.9	The Metspod Mailman are hopefully here to deliver.
1:03.7	This is the show for the people.
1:05.7	And it kind of feels a little Bruce Almightyish right now, Joe, where like the inbox has just
1:10.0	been overflowing for months because people have been talking about the off season going all the way back to June. And admittedly, you and I are like, oh, well, there'll be a time for that. There'll be a time for that. Let's enjoy Metz Baseball. Unfortunately, the first week of October is the time for that. So here we go. The time is now. And you know, glad that everyone is so invested in the off season,
1:29.8	as you and I both are. I don't think we want to make it a regular thing to be invested in
1:35.6	the off season in June, but we're here for you now and let's start to rebuild this thing.
1:42.0	Yeah. Well, here we go. There's no time to waste. So let's start with the coaching staff changes, which is the most prominent immediate news.
1:48.1	And this is from Christopher Oreo, Christo on Twitter. Thank you.
1:52.6	What do you think about J.D. Martinez is his hitting coach and Carlos Beltran as bench coach.
1:56.7	JD seemed to have a positive effect on young players like Vientos in 2024.
2:01.1	And Beltron is one of the smartest baseball minds around and very close to Lindor.
2:05.5	I guess this is an easy transition for us, Joe, that the Mets essentially cleaned out their coaching staff.
2:11.0	Obviously, Carlos Mendoza will be back.
2:13.2	Antoine Richardson is expected to be back as things stand right now.
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