The Mets Pod Live on Winter Meetings Day 2: Will Sammon joins to talk Juan Soto, Garrett Crochet, Sean Manaea and more

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

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On a live episode of The Mets Pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac, Connor Rogers and Joe DeMayo are talking on Day 2 of the 2024 MLB Winter Meetings about Juan Soto and pitching targets for the New York Mets. Will Sammon, who covers the Mets and MLB for The Athletic joins the show from the meetings in Dallas to deliver some behind the scenes stories of reporting on the Soto deal, and updates on the latest noise surrounding Garrett Crochet, Roki Sasaki, Sean Manaea, and other moves the Mets might still make. Later, Connor and Joe look at the market set by Max Fried’s deal with the Yankees, break down comments from David Stearns about Roki Sasaki, and dive deep into the live Mailbag to answer questions about Pete Alonso, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, Trevor Williams, Brett Baty, 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 to The Athletic’s Will Sammon from the Winter Meetings 01:00 More about Juan Soto 03:00 Garrett Crochet trade? 05:00 Is Roki Sasaki realistic? 07:15 Sean Manaea and other pitching targets 10:05 Bullpen options 12:30 Down on the Farm: new minor league ownership 14:35 Kodai Senga and a six-man rotation 17:00 Goodbye to Will 19:10 Vote for The Mets Pod for a Sports Podcast Award! 20:45 Max Fried and the new pitching market 28:10 David Stearns speaks about Roki Sasaki 33:30 Mailbag – Pete Alonso and protecting Juan Soto 38:55 Mailbag – Push for Vlad if Pete leaves? 40:55 Mailbag – Francisco Lindor still leading off? 44:05 Mailbag – Thoughts on a Trevor Williams return? 45:15 Mailbag – Are the Yankees “drunken sailors”? 46:10 Mailbag – What to do with Brett Baty in 2025?

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to the Mets pod presented by Tri-State Cadillac. Visit your
0:12.2	Tri-State Cadillac dealer today. I'm your host, Connor Rogers, joined, as always by my co-host, Joe DeMaio.
0:17.5	And as our run of shows continues during the winter meetings, we are happy to be joined by a friend of the show.
0:22.3	Will Samin, who covers the Mets and many baseball related things for the athletic.
0:26.6	Will, thanks for jumping back on, man. How have these days been?
0:29.4	You know what? It's not the winter meetings for me if I don't get the opportunity to speak with you guys. So I'm really happy to do it. You know, it's, it's the highlight now of my winter
0:38.6	meetings that we're doing this back to back years. Wow, that is the highest phrase we've ever
0:42.9	gotten on this show from a reoccurring guest. Andy Martino, you are on alert now. Steve Yelbs,
0:47.9	you are on alert now. Will Salmon is our favorite guest. Let's jump right into it because I know things are crazy and time is limited down there.
0:55.6	We've read all the stories about how the Juan Soto deal came about. When the news dropped,
1:00.2	number one, Will, what were you doing? Like what was the actual scene for you? Because everybody was
1:04.6	kind of in this scramble when we thought the deal could get done that night. And then what was
1:08.6	your level of surprise that the deal was not only over
1:11.7	$760 million, but pretty close money-wise between the Mets and the Yankees at the end of this thing?
1:18.9	Yeah, so I wish I had like some glamorous story or some exciting story, but I was really just in
1:23.3	my hotel room. And I have a pretty good reason for that because we had heard that it was probably
1:28.5	going to come down to that night so I wanted to be in a decent position for it. I didn't want
1:33.0	to be scrambling around or anything like that. So I was pretty safe and secure in my location
1:37.7	for to work. And so to answer your question about just the idea of it becoming the Mets at the
1:43.4	end of the day and then the
1:44.2	discrepancy between the Mets and the Yankees. Yeah, I was pretty surprised actually because
1:47.9	I felt all along way back at the beginning of the off season that some Mets officials that
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