Sean Fennessey

Well, first of all, she's becoming a great fan because nicknames like Strikeout King, that's really what being a Mets fan is made of.

I do think that there's something cool going on with Bichette and Robert too, which is they seem to have identified players who have dramatically reduced their strikeout rate.

This is also true for Polanco over the course of a number of years.

because they were a very strikeout-heavy team.

And now, to your point about the guys who see pitches, I mean, nobody sees more pitches than Juan Soto.

He's got the strongest eye in the sport.

And it's going to be really hard, I think, because of the havoc they're going to wreak on the base paths and the number of pitches that they're going to force pitchers into.

And that is where a lot of their success in 2024 and 2022 came from, too, was being guys who really worked counts well.

So that's exciting.

The thing with Robert and the thing with Bichette, though,

They're injury prone.

It's entirely possible that both of these moves blow up in their face.

They're only one-year commitments, so it's not that big of a deal.

And this is exactly what Steve Cohen should be doing in the run-up to what is likely going to be a new CBA that changes the dynamics of baseball.

But if they hit the upside with both guys, they're going to be good, man.

They're going to be a really good lineup.

I think the Kyle Tucker move pushed people over the edge.

And I think that there's been a lot of reporting by the national media in the last week or so since the Tucker signing that

It's now clear that something is going to change when the negotiation happens.

Who knows if there's going to be a lockout.