Ben Verlander

That's a good question.

My immediate gut reaction says it's the New York Mets just because it's been such a polarizing offseason for them.

And it's New York.

And whether you're a Mets fan, you were freaking out.

Yankees fans jump on board with the conversation.

So I feel like I've kind of been like.

a level head throughout this process of saying, OK, let's wait a second.

This team is like completely getting cut down and chopped up, and it's not just going to end this way.

I felt when Pete Alonso, when they when they let him go and Edwin Diaz and Brandon Nemo was traded, everyone thought the world was ending for the New York Mets.

And my thought was, OK, let's pump the brakes here.

It's November, December.

You know, Steve Cohen, you know, David Stern, they're going to do something.

And I actually think they'll be just fine.

And then they make all of these moves and it's a totally new look team.

So my gut, my gut says I've talked more about the New York Mets than anybody else this offseason.

Yeah, I mean, if you're a Dodgers fan, this is a perfect world scenario, right?

I mean, you look at the Dodgers last year in the World Series.

I look at that World Series and say the Blue Jays were every bit as good of a team as the Dodgers.

If not, there's also a world in which you could say they outplayed them for the majority of it and they still lost the series.

And then you can come out of that and say, man, the Dodgers have now won back-to-back World Series.