Joe Benigno

You got Diaz talking about, I left because I wanted to win, and you've got Pete Alonso talking about home and family and the city and embracement and all that stuff that was supposed to be what Steve Cohen said

the Steve Cohen family, and the New York Mets were all about.

And right now you're trying to come to terms with that, and that's just the peripheral, and that's just the feelings.

Then you get to the actual baseball, and how do you replace Pete?

How do you replace the closer?

And right now, the only move they made so far is the move with Jorge Polanco on Saturday.

And look, I talk about this a lot on Saturday.

Polanco's a good player.

He has no experience at first base whatsoever.

But he's come up as a middle infielder.

He's played a lot of second.

Early in his career, he played a lot of short.

He could play all over the infield.

And I'm sure he could pick up first base.

And certainly with range and arm, he's going to be better than Alonso almost instantly.

But around the bag and scoops, I don't know.

Pete was pretty good at that.

I know people want to dog his defense, and if you look at the metrics, yes, he was graded out as the worst defender at first base in all of Major League Baseball last year.

To me, watching him on a daily basis, yeah, the range isn't very good at all, and certainly his throwing arm, which is, what, two, three plays a week at max?

Like, that's not very good either, and clearly, you know, I think it even got worse after he took it hard that he caused the injury to Sango, or at least he felt he caused the injury to Sango when he had to jump up for a lousy throw and he pulled his hamstring.