Sean Fennessey

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865 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4d ago

Sean Fennessey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Zach Lowe Show · Drafting Our Favorite Championship Teams Since 2000! · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

This is a team with a lot of history and not a lot of impressive records, and what I worry about. matched

Is that Pete is our generation's Tom Seaver. matched

And when I was a kid, all I heard about was trading Tom Seaver and Tom Seaver leaving the team and what a black mark that was. matched

What a joke that made the Mets. matched

That that would be that they would trade Tom Seaver. matched

And that we very easily, with the richest owner in the sport, could have re-signed Pete Alonso. matched

And we didn't do it. matched

And we didn't do it for reasons that I understand. matched

But when you do the math in your head and you're like, okay, we paid Frankie Mantos 18.5 million dollars this year to contribute nothing. matched

We paid Jorge Polanco 20 million dollars this year to contribute nothing. matched

We paid Bo Bachette 42 million dollars this year to have a league average season. matched

We paid Sean Mania twenty five million dollars this year to be a number five starter. matched

Add the totals up from we paid Marcus Simeon $25 million a year to be the worst position player in the sport. matched

Put all that money together from just this one season that we paid out, one season, that's about seven-eighths of the entirety of the Pete Alonso contract. matched

And that's baseball. matched

That's how baseball works. matched

So it is crushing to think about it in that way when you think about the amount of time and effort and thought that was put into whether or not to extend Alonzo that deal and to not give it to him. matched

And the way in which all of those resources were allocated just this year. matched

It's hard to accept. matched

It's such a paradox because matched

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