Zack Scott

So if, if that's your goal, you're probably more likely do it to do it in the first couple of years before those guys hit free agency.

And you're either signing them to deals, um, where you're capturing a lot of their decline years in their thirties.

So this might be the best time to do it.

Um,

So it doesn't surprise me.

I say that because that core was still the same core four or five years later.

And I understand it.

They're starting to age out.

And they haven't really won anything.

They were very good players.

And it always seemed like a team that should have been better than they were.

So, you know, I sometimes do think, though, Mets fans get so attached to players.

Everyone does, homegrown players, but especially there, I almost felt like at times it's like, you know, you realize you haven't won anything, right?

Like, it's almost like they haven't won anything in so long that they're willing to accept that and just kind of enjoy that.

the personalities and the players and focus on that, which is great.

It's great if that's important, but I don't think that covers everybody because until this year, they weren't really banging out the ballpark.

So there clearly wasn't this faith that they were actually a great team.

So I think it was inevitable and that David's doing it and he's not done with his job this off season.

But it's hard to make those pivots.

That's a hard thing to do to players that fans are attached to, ownership may be attached to.