Evan O'Brien

Well, no, I definitely coming into the off season, I definitely thought we couldn't run it back.

Cause that's exactly what we did last year.

And I feel like we've had the same core, uh,

With the exception of Juan Soto only being last year for, like, ever.

Because it was, like, Nimmo's homegrown.

He's been there forever.

Alonzo's homegrown.

He's been there forever.

Lindor's been here for, I think, like, six or seven years or something like that at this point.

So I did think it was kind of stupid to keep running it back.

So I, like, I was kind of of the belief, like...

Jeff McNeil seemed like the most obvious guy to trade just because they have a ton of young guys coming up.

And also, I was just like, he's versatile, but he doesn't really do anything crazy well.

He's kind of just like pretty good at everything.

So I always thought like, we'll definitely get rid of him.

And then I wasn't really of the belief like we need to bring back Alonzo and we need to bring back Diaz.

I felt like Diaz was probably more important than Alonzo, but I just wasn't sure who you're going after in free agency because I didn't know if like...

Because some of the things they've been throwing out is like, we'll have Vientos and McNeil platoon at first base to replace Alonzo.

I'm like, that's going to be one of the worst platoons I've ever seen.

Originally, I would have said yes, but since they really are going full-on defensive, I wouldn't be shocked.