The Mets Pod Live on Winter Meetings Day 1: Andy Martino joins to talk Juan Soto and what’s next

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

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On a live episode of The Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac, Connor Rogers and Joe DeMayo are talking on Day 1 of the 2024 MLB Winter Meetings about Juan Soto and what’s next for the Mets. SNY MLB Insider Andy Martino joins the show from the meetings in Dallas to recap the whole Soto story, and reveal where things stand with Pete Alonso and the Mets pursuit of more pitching as they build their team for 2025 and beyond. Later, Connor and Joe react to comments from Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns, go Down on the Farm to check on Luisangel Acuna, and answer live questions from viewers about Nathan Eovaldi, Roki Sasaki, Jordan Montgomery, and 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, welcome SNY MLB Insider Andy Martino from the Winter Meetings 01:25 Recapping the Mets successful chase for Juan Soto 04:10 The Mets family atmosphere is attractive 05:45 Juan Soto’s comfort level with the Mets 07:05 Now what for the Mets and Pete Alonso? 09:00 Targets for the starting rotation 11:15 Building a bullpen 13:00 Roles for Starling Marte and Jeff McNeil 14:30 The return of Jose Iglesias? 15:35 Overall MLB activity at the Winter Meetings 16:35 Goodbye to Andy 17:15 More on free agent pitching and Sean Manaea 23:30 David Stearns speaks 27:40 Mailbag – Mets interested in Nathan Eovaldi? 31:25 Mailbag – Recruiting Roki Sasaki 34:50 Mailbag - LH DH options? 41:35 Mailbag – Thoughts on Jordan Montgomery 45:20 Down on the Farm: Luisangel Acuna 48:45 Closing Thoughts

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to the Mets pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac. Visit your
0:12.5	Tri-State Cadillac theater today. I'm your host, Connor Rogers. joined as always by my co-host,
0:17.0	Joe DeMail, and special guest, Andy Martino, Martino SMY's insider is live from the winter
0:22.7	meetings down in Dallas. Andy, have we gotten any sleep over the last 24 hours? We surprisingly
0:27.7	got the Juan Soto news at a normal hour. Yeah, that's been fine. Actually, it's been nice because
0:33.4	last year, I remember the Soto trade was, and of course I covered the Yankees, too,
0:39.1	was like, it was one of those deals where like 10, 11 o'clock at night.
0:42.0	I'm hearing a holder working on it.
0:43.5	So you can't really sleep.
0:45.8	I remember seeing Aaron Boone and Jason Zillow.
0:48.0	They had a media relations in the morning.
0:50.0	They were headed to this manager breakfast event.
0:52.3	And I was just like, bleep you, bleep you.
0:54.2	You kept me up all night.
0:55.4	I'm exhausted.
0:56.6	And it was like you get bitter.
0:58.1	But thank you to Steve Cohen and Juan Soto for, if nothing else, agreeing to terms at a reasonable hour.
1:05.0	I'm fine.
1:06.0	Yeah, we absolutely loved it on the Mets pod, considering we had to do an emergency podcast.
1:10.0	Reasonable hours, reasonable for you, the life of an insider.
1:13.0	Of course, you could subscribe to the Metspot at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:17.9	So we can watch on YouTube, which many of you are, drop some questions in there as well.
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