The Baez Blunder: Zack Scott Explains Trading Crow-Armstrong | Sal Licata
WFAN Daily
Audacy
3.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In a revealing conversation, former Mets GM Zack Scott was pressed about the infamous 2021 trade that sent a young Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Cubs for Javier Báez. Scott candidly explained the front office's thought process at the time, admitting that while they valued Crow-Armstrong's defense and makeup, they fundamentally missed on his offensive potential, specifically his power. He detailed how the team, in a "win-now" mode under new ownership, prioritized a veteran bat for a playoff push, and how the industry as a whole underestimated Crow-Armstrong's future stardom. This discussion offers a rare glimpse into the complex and often unforgiving world of baseball front office decision-making.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Contentful. |
| 0:03.0 | Marketers, you know that feeling when your creative clicks? |
| 0:06.6 | When that social post sends engagement through the roof? |
| 0:09.7 | When your outside-of-the-box campaign hits ROI positive? |
| 0:13.2 | When a personalized homepage turns prospects into customers? |
| 0:17.2 | It's utter marketing bliss. |
| 0:19.1 | Contentful helps you create tailored omni-channel experiences without working overtime. |
| 0:23.8 | No stress, no limits, only possibilities. |
| 0:27.3 | Get the feels at contentful.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, everyone, it's Bumer and Gio, and if you're into New York sports |
| 0:33.0 | or you want straight talk about what's really going on in the sports world, |
| 0:36.5 | Boomer and Gio is your show. We're covering it all. Yankees wins, Giants drama, national headlines, and whatever chaos the day brings on the field and all. No filler, no filters, just real conversation. And believe me, plenty of laughs every weekday morning. We don't hold back and we don't waste your time. We get to what actually matters. That's Boomer and Gio, and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Got to know Zach a little bit and think you have a fantastic, interesting perspective from a former GM's perspective. Figure to have you on here and have some fun talking about both these two teams. How are you, Zach? I'm good. Thanks for having me. All right, so you want to get into the hard stuff first? |
| 1:14.4 | Whatever you want to talk about. Why did you trade Pete Crow Armstrong? What's wrong with you? |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, he'd fit pretty well right now. Yes, he was. I'm sure people are not happy to hear me say that. |
| 1:24.8 | But yeah, I mean, there's, you know, I grew up learning from people like Theo Epstein, Dave Dombrowski, |
| 1:33.1 | you know, Future Hall of Fame executives that you kind of figure out who are your core prospects |
| 1:39.4 | that you think are going to be huge parts of your kind of future, your next great team that you want |
| 1:45.9 | to build. Everyone wants to build a sustainable winner. And, you know, obviously, incorrectly, he |
| 1:51.1 | wasn't one of those guys at the time. And a lot of the guys that were guys that are in the big leagues now. |
| 1:56.0 | And some of them have disappointed. Some of them have been okay. But yeah, we had him and and quite honestly so did the |
| 2:01.9 | industry had him probably as like our fifth six seventh best prospect at the time and what wasn't a |
| 2:08.2 | strong wasn't a deep system it's fairly top heavy with alvresby and number one at the time and this is |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.