Pete Alonzo selling himself down at the winter meetings.

I love how the headline, though, is Pete Alonzo to meet with other teams, but not the Mets. And then David Stern's actually laughed it off a little bit. He's like, well, I think we know each other pretty well. He's going to go out there and talk to these other teams. He's going to be trying to get a deal that is a long-term deal and then bring it back to the Mets potentially to match, which I know you hate, but I'm sure that that's what David Stearns has told Scott Boris, and that's probably what they're going to do if he wants to remain a MET, is, hey, the Baltimore Orioles are going to sign me for five years, X amount of dollars, what do you think? And then if David Stern thinks it's too long, he's going to say it's too long.

But, you know, he is sticking by a lot of his principles despite the fact that they were terrible

last year.

And the starting rotation was awful last year.

I don't think they're going to go out and overspend now on a starting pitcher because of what happened last year

in the rotation.

What I think they're going to do is stick by the same things, which is I'd rather give

three years to a guy that's got higher risk than five years to a guy who's got lower risk,

as if the lower risk guy blows up, then I'm on the hook for five, six, seven, eight years. He would never give the Max Free deal out that the Yankees did when they were up against it last offseason after losing Lonsona. You know, what's amazing to me is that you have, Aaron Judge was kind of in the same situation a little bit with the Yankees when he was shopping himself. Yeah. And all of a sudden, San Diego was one of those teams that came up with that extra year, I believe.

Yeah, in San Francisco, too.

And San Francisco.

And obviously, Aaron being from out there, I mean, I wonder if he ever, I don't think he regrets that

that contract that he signed.

He was just a couple of years off from truly, truly doubling his salary.

Well, he needed a couple years off in the reverse.

He needed to be 28, 27 as opposed to 30.

But what I'm saying, he could have gotten a lot more money if he had just waited.

Well, he couldn't have waited because of his age and because of everything that goes into baseball and the way that they signed these players. But he also had his best season of his life going into that off season. It's amazing to me that both guys like Judge and Alonzo have to go sell themselves. I mean, like a lot of has been a great met. Let's face it. Judge didn't sell himself. Judge, you've got to remember. So he turned down that deal in spring training, then had the year where he hit 62 home runs, and then he went into free agency off of that. He didn't have to sell himself there. He just was talking to other teams and seeing how much money he could get. And then he ended up bringing a deal back to the Yankees.

Pete Alonzo is selling himself.

There's no doubt about it that he has to sell himself.

And I don't know if it's a personality thing.

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