Best of the Mets on WFAN: Time to move on from Alonso?
Evan & Tiki
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To remind you that 60% of sales on Amazon come from independent sellers, here's John from Devil Dog Pet Company. |
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| 0:15.0 | It's the Jeff McNeil and the Pete Alonzo situation. |
| 0:18.0 | Those guys have to go. They have to. They can't be on this team next year. And I've loved Pete, butzo situation. Those guys have to go. They have to. |
| 0:22.4 | They can't be on this team next year. |
| 0:29.6 | And I've loved Pete, but this was so bad that something needs to be shaken up in a big way. |
| 0:30.9 | And he might not be the problem. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm not sure what the problem is, but he opted out. |
| 0:35.8 | You don't have to bring them back. |
| 0:38.5 | Jeff McNeil shouldn't have been on this team last year. |
| 0:43.6 | The things that you can do easily to shake up the core, you have to. |
| 0:53.3 | As unpopular as it might be that Pete Alonzo, one of the best homegrown position players in franchise history, doesn't finish his career here. You just went through the most embarrassing situation you could possibly go through. And I'm not trading Francisco Lindor. You're obviously not getting rid of Juan Soto. So where do you shake this thing up? And those are two places that you do. It's most got to be left field, first base. You've got to figure out what you're doing at second base. And you've got to feel like what is Viantos going to be here? I think he's going to be here. And Beat Beat Beatty. What are you going to do with him? I guess he could play second base, I guess. Is Luis Acuna Jr. a future player? You know, what about Maricio? Is he a future player? I mean, there's a lot of young players that you'd like to see up here, and |
| 1:27.7 | fans clamoring for them, because they're getting tired of the old guard, if you will. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, there was one combative, back to the Yankees for a second. There's one combative |
| 1:39.1 | Brian Cash from press conference. He remembered Dan was like at the owner's meetings, and he was |
| 1:43.5 | like going after and defending |
| 1:45.8 | the Yankees and we did this |
| 1:47.8 | and we made it for the LCS. |
| 1:49.5 | We call that in Aaron Glenn. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:52.8 | But Brian Cashman had like, you know, was wearing |
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