Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Pete Alonso headed to The Baltimore Orioles INSTANT REACTION!

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. There's a polar bear siding in Baltimore. Pete Alonzo is a bird. Mets. What is we doing, baby? Don't play, don't play, don't play. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Present to you by Seekkeek, Talking 10.

Jake Storelli, back in the big city. You can hear the winter meetings in my voice. I think I joined the Padres front office last night. Oh, no. Yes. So that's just an FYI for everyone. More importantly, off the plane, get in my apartment, lay down, forgot I left it messy, which is just an awful feeling before you travel. Such a disaster.

And then I find out that Pete Alonzo, Pete the meet, five years, 155 with some escalators in there that can go up to 185 to the Baltimore Orioles, the career leader in Mets home runs is leaving and heading down south and joining the AL. Trev, how you doing? It was me. It was black beans, rice, chicken, jalapenos, having a nice meal. Yeah. And I just finished up baseball today, got the news, and I was talking about just this very scenario with Chris Rose. And now here I am chopping up with you.

I'm very curious about the Padres front office. are the Cardinals mad. I guess we'll get into that later. Pete Alonzo, snaps, baby. What did we say? We said Kyle Schwerber set his market. Five years 150. Pete says, hey, that's cool.

I'll take that plus 5 mil because I play first base. And that's what he got. Five years, 155 from the Orioles. Elias came out and did an interview and said, we have money to spend. And he put it out there. He put that thing on the table. And I said, well, you put that thing on the table.

you better use it, and he did. This is so big for the Orioles. I feel like you have a nice nucleus of talent there that kind of underperformed last year. And now you get about as tried and true hitter as you can get in the middle of your order. Exactly where you need one. They needed some thump right there. They get it. I don't think they're done.

You don't make a move like this without making another move. And they're right back in contention in the AL East, where they're at the doormat last year. Just like that from one signing, I love it for them. I love it for Pete, too. Pete Alonzo, 264 career home runs. That's third behind Judge and Schwaburber since making his debut in 2019. Like you said, I mean, tried and true power hitter.

He's only played 10 games at Camden, but he's got a 1.0.0.0.000 there. He's played 1,08 out of a possible 1,032 games going back to his rookie year. I feel vindicated. It blew my mind how his free agency went last year. And now Pete cleans up. And the Orioles have entered the chat, dude. We've been talking about these kind of wild card teams that we assumed had budgets. I mean, the Orioles, I didn't even lump them in with, like, the Cubs and the Red Sox,

because we know they have budgets. We've heard the Orioles talk about it, but they hadn't done it. Now they've done it, dude. And Trev, one of the... the transactions that I don't know was just kind of like hey baseball offseason's happening uh Taylor ward for uh grace and Rodriguez which we were like okay that's a weird trade Trev go look at that Baltimore lineup right now I am we are left righty switch Taylor ward with his 30 plus home runs coming to you from like the six hole right now Tyler O'Neill's

listed on the bench for them like the Orioles lineup and this is why I was so frustrated with Pete's free agency because he can change the whole tenor of your lineup because you're basically looking at 35 homers worst case scenario I'm looking at the lineup and I am a liking and there's other rumors out there about them wanting to go get a front end starting pitcher

just did this on baseball today talking about who do they dance well with the Miami Marlins God that was a I just blanked right there Last year they get Trevor Rogers, and Stowers down there. They are both very happy at the end of the year with that trade. They have a Kobe Mayo.

They have a Westberg, which is exactly what a team like the Marlins need. The Marlins have Edward Cabrera. These talks, they said, they're beginning to get into advanced stages. You throw an Edward Cabrera. Now you got him. You got Rogers. You got Braddish.

You got this lineup. And we're like, okay. This is what we expected after 2020. when they won 100-something games. This is the trajectory they should be on. Last year, terrible, went backwards, and I'm happy the front office wasn't going to let that continue. It's just a little hiccup now, or so we assume.

Obviously, you've got to play the 2026 season, but right now they're looking so much better. Like I mentioned, just immediately back into, you know, I mean, where do you rank them in the ALE East right now, especially if they get that Edward Cabrera trade done. Yeah, I'm not going to give them Edward Cabrera yet, just because other teams need to do that. I think they're going to add a starting pitcher,

and we'll see who that is. I mean, they could, in theory, add a couple pitchers still. But, you know, what Trevor Rogers did, when he performed in his 18 starts last year was special. Kyle was being braddish by the end of last year. And that's the thing, man. I was talking to give a guy some love. John Miole, Orioles beat writer.

Me and him went to a leadership conference in Connecticut when we were sophomores in high school. I did not know where you're going with that. Saying afternoon delight on stage. We were like the two hunks there. He covers the birds. He was excited, man. He's like, dude, they're going to do something.

And Pete Alonzo's going to be what they do. And where does it stop, Trev? Like, hey, man, I mean, you're talking, okay, I just turned them down for Edward Cabrera. What if scubel's actually on the table and what price tags are they looking for? And like how different could the Orioles look? No rumors, no smoke, no fire there.

But the Orioles can still do a lot of work. And in the AL East, man, I picked them to win the AL East last year. They had such an atrocious start that they couldn't dig themselves out. When they hired their interim manager, they played above 500 baseball, which in the expanded wild card is a playoff team. But they got off to such a horrendous start. Gunner had a slightly weird year. Adley, there are going to be a lot of eyes on you this year, Poppo.

And I want to bet against the man that I think the birds are here. Call me in, Coach. He's not good on fastballs. Last two years, I got you. I fixed Gary Sanchez. I can do it for another ALE's team. Okay, how about that? I had something I was going to go to.

I totally blanked on it. Go back to what you were saying. Orioles. Allie Rushman. Connecticut Leadership Conference. Connecticut Leadership. I don't know. Pitching, scoble, you didn't like that.

Oh, that's exactly. Okay. Yeah. At first I'm like, there's no way they can do that. Like, you know, the asking price is going to be extreme high. They just did it. They went out and got Corbyn Burns. Yeah.

For a year. They didn't end up resigning him, but they just did this exact same thing. One of the best pitchers in all of baseball, they went out and got in his walk year. Yeah. If they do that again. Oh, man. That's, uh, look, we're getting ahead of. ourselves a little bit here. I'm very happy for the Orioles and Pete Alonzo and I think it's a perfect

fit for their lineup, for their clubhouse, and Pete doesn't care where he's hitting the ball. He's going to hit homers no matter where he is. So damn that the walls in or out. Snaps, man. This is, this is a great, this is a massive first step for them in this offseason. Yeah, and again, sometimes me and Trevor Bordell undone. I'll just say that. I know some people don't like that word, but, you know, we talked about the Orioles lineup. This is how it's currently listed on fan graphs, and obviously you can jumble things up, but Jackson Holiday, lefty, Jordan Westberg at third, righty, Gunner Henderson, lefty, Pete Alonzo, Ritey, Adley, Switch, Taylor Ward, Wrighty, Dylan Beaver's lefty, Colton Couser lefty, Samuel Bessio lefty, with a bench of

Ryan Mountcastle, who's hit a lot in this league, Jeremiah Jackson, who put up some numbers last year, and then Tyler O'Neill is listed on the bench with Leotis Tavares. So they can left right you right now. Like if they're finished with their offensive offseason, they're set up. It's almost how do we get guys in the lineup, which again, that's a good problem to have. That, man, they're going to add another starting pitcher, and it's going to be interesting to see, are they going to go innings eater or something that makes us jump back on the mics again?

Because, dude, if they add a McKenzie Gore, I guess I'll add Edward Cabrera. Like, if they had an impact starting pitcher, we're going to, right now I don't think we're looking at the birds and we're like, whoa, like World Series back on. If they're one move away from us being like, they're back. A pitcher and a lineup producing the way that they can produce. Yes. Some of these guys have to step up. Poliday needs to kind of become the guy that think he can become. Adelaide needs to start hitting fastballs again.

Basayo needs to be, I mean, he's 21 years old. It's ridiculous. But they truly believe in the hit tool with him. So you've got to get the most out of these guys. And that's what I always say. Like you're going to have your guys. That's why they get paid the big bucks. They're going to give you production.

But the guys that, you know, not the fringe players, I don't want to call them that. But the guys like a Basayo, the young guys. Like if they step up and they have their years, that's when you get these magical runs. I love it for them. I truly do. And you know who I hate it for? Who's that?

The New York Mets. They were just losing players. Losing. And they ain't adding. Guys, no real ads on this episode. One, go buy some merch from our store. We got our new slash line collection. And it's Christmas, right?

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We didn't know what the time. Right. The Mets final offer and the Dodgers final offer, which again, who knows what's actually going on? Like maybe it was one of those things they kept bidding each other up and the Mets are like, well, if the Dodgers are just going to keep going and Edwin wants to go there, we're just, we're not actually. actually involved that maybe they drew the line and sent who knows what happens there but the Mets have just seen them lose their star closer in a tough bullpen situation where he was the only guy kind of and then Pete Alonzo the the most home runs ever hit by a New York met I do think I do think for Pete Alonzo it was like I got the deal I want in front of me sign like that's

I think he would have went anywhere. I don't think he's like, I need to go to Baltimore. And that's no shots fired at Baltimore. I think after last year not getting what he wanted, this year saying, hey, it's right in front of me. All I got to do is say yes. In. Didn't want to take the chance again of something falling out and happening.

So I think that's what happened there. The Edwin Diaz situation, I don't believe they got like the last chance to match. Middleton and the Phillies and Dombrowski they got the last chance to match with Swarber I don't think Diaz

gave them that option in fact even if they did get to match I don't think he goes back there I think he sees this what's going on in Los Angeles he's like I want to be part of that

and you can fault him for that you can say oh you just want to join in ring chase yeah if you're going to get paid that type of money and get to play on that team in a market that's much more

manageable It's a big market You might be the last guy on the mound, bro And I've said this about The New York media before And people like don't like it But it's the truth, okay? Like did he go there just to avoid the New York media?

No. Is it a factor? And he's done it. He's gotten ripped by them But also is beloved by the media. And when you're beloved, it's great. And when you get ripped, it stinks. It stinks. So you go to L.A., you get the market that you want.

Okay? It's big. They don't rip you to pieces out here. They just don't. Right. Like, it's a different type of media landscape. And I said this on baseball today. If the media would just get out of their own way,

it's almost like the facial hair policy. Does it really matter? No, but like, it's mattered. And I don't know what I'm trying to say with that. I'm saying is the Mets are losing players. Nimmo, fan favorite gone. Peter Lanzo, could have been a statue guy, gone. Edwin Diaz and the trumpet song, gone.

And who have they added? Devin Williams You're your guy Yeah I said Congratulations Devin Williams on his contract last night Me and him might have to bury The Hatchet another time

I think he might have seen Some of our Talking Yanks post from this year And maybe he didn't love that And the endeavor type though And I would probably feel the same exact way So I get it Oh are you part of the media I was just scolding? Yes yes

I am New York media man where are the Mets going to pivot and dude this is okay I think people unfortunately can hear my voice but they can also they can feel my energy what the fuck was that is a boy band this is a boy band song I know you hear my voice but you feel my energy dude this is the domino falling out of place we didn't know if Baltimore was going to be in the mix for for what like maybe a big pitcher we were dreaming but we haven't seen them done this now they've done this the Mets need to do something is that Bregman and now like where are the Red Sox in this food chain because they were a big

Alonzo rumor team so are they back to break like the New York Mets Where are they going to go because the biggest free agent out there is Kyle Tucker So are they just going to sign another left-handed corner outfielder to a $400 million plus contract? Like, where are the Mets going? I watched David Stearns talk about this and he said all the right things, but like I said to Chris, like he's not feeling the fan base right now who are super frustrated.

You know, great. You got this owner who's willing to spend money and that's you're in a much better position as an organization than you were five years ago with the previous ownership. farm system good awesome that's great but you collapsed last year you did and now you're losing players like flies it's a weird spot to be in so you really need to understand the pulse of the fan base now you don't need to make decisions based on that necessarily but it should it should influence the way that you go about your business and talk in front of cameras he really wasn't doing a good job doing that uh but yeah i mean i think they have to we gave them shit before 20 24

about their starting pitching and it blew up in our face because they ended up figuring it out. And then last year we kind of gave them the benefit of the doubt and it didn't work their starting pitching. So I think that that's an area that got these young guys that have come up. That's great. I think you need a stalwart in the rotation to really help out there. So I think that's where you got to go. And that's going to be, I think we're what will anchor you best. You know, besides, I think it's better than going out and getting a cowtucker for for the reasons kind of you just mentioned right there, having a lot of money tied up in that outfield,

but still not being sure about your starting pitching, that's where you got to go. You got to go do something there. Yeah, I wonder this, maybe this sounds dumb. Dumb, I've used it twice. Go check out the weekly dumb, third J.M ad. The Mets rotation would actually look beautiful with like a true one or two added to it.

like obviously scoble and again that i don't think that should sound as obvious as it does but like the metts right now have mcclaine who is awesome last year peterson holmes minaya sangha if you push them all down and we can't just keep putting scubel on every team because i personally don't think he's going to be traded although if the met's are starting to get desperate they've got young talent um that if you put scubel at the top of that rotation it actually looks like one of the best in baseball maybe the name that's more realistic, McKenzie Gore, dude. If they could trade Ronnie Maricio, a Brett Beatty, Jonah Tong, bring in someone like that, the rotation then looks good.

So then you have the bullpen. But dude, the lineup still needs a lot of work that I don't know where they go. I'm, that was awesome. Did you see that? Did I catch that? Yeah. I am looking more towards, I love McKenzie Gore. and there are times where he looks like that bona fide ace,

I am looking, that's what I'm talking about for the Mets is top of the rotation. It is a terrible. It is a Hunter Green, something like that. If you want to go out there and play that game, they do have the young guys, and I, like, I'm down for that. They've looked good. Jonathan's looked great. Nolan McLean has looked great.

You know I love me some Manaya, Senga's back. Okay, great. You need the horse. You need the horse. And you probably, you also need some back end of the bullpen help now as well. I don't think Devin Williams, as good as he can be, I think you need to figure that aspect as well.

I would go pitching heavy if I was the Mets and then figure out the rest. And they do have the pieces to make trades. So it doesn't necessarily have to be on the free agent market. So they have a lot of options still, but the longer you wait, the more you're going to see guys come off the board that can help your team.

So I think they have to act pretty quickly. I mean, going back to Stearns has passed, and it doesn't always work like this, but Freddie Peralta and McGill are supposedly on the block. Like, hello, there's your one. There's your potential closer that makes all the pitching feel better instantly. But I guess where I'm getting caught up. And again, like there's a lot of offseason left to go.

But my goodness, you just lost your ninth inning rock last year, your first base power rock from last year. I'm looking at the lineup right now, coach. I'm looking and not like him. True. I mean, so Pat. Passon tweeted it out that he's like,

the Orioles have an argument for the best lineup in baseball right now, which, hey, let's see where the rest of the offseason lands. And like you said, a couple of those young guys, if they pop, yes, but sometimes young guys don't pop. Often, they don't pop.

The Mets right now, the Lindor Simeon Soto Viantos McNeil Alvarez Beatty Maricio Taylor if I'm being

100 with the people hashtag Lindor absolutely Soto absolutely after that like Alvarez

for a hitting young catcher like sure you're not going to do much better than that but it's a maybe but for like the catching position sure check the box

after that like hey simeon's going to play a great defense i don't know what he's got offensively it's head in the wrong direction the rest of the lineup i don't know what you're getting maybe i'm wrong about the starting pitching being first i always like to shore that up but i well dude we talked all last year about how like we like the met's lineup we almost thought there should be more in there and like hey nimmo stats landed where nimmo stats seemingly land every year alonzo stats A lot of a big step back last year. Alonzo's stats landed in a great spot last year that it's like, how are we replacing that?

Again, could it be Tucker? Like we haven't found the Tucker team, but then you're pretty lefty. I kind of like them in Bregman for a while now. Has this created the righty door for them? And then you could trade those young infielders to get the pitching. But like the Mets, at what point is uncle's? You're going to trade a Beatty or a Vientos?

Like how much do they really... What are they going to bring back? I can bring back what you need pitching-wise. Depth, I feel like you kind of have... You don't have great depth, but you have enough depth pitching-wise. This is very interesting for Sterns. They're going to have to figure out this puzzle and do it quickly, like I said. The more and more I'm staring at this lineup, the more I'm like, okay, we have to make the move.

And Bregman makes sense there. I don't think he I don't think he makes them a better lineup than they were last year. No, no. Like what Bregman what Bregman brings is both sides of the baseball and, you know, professional at bats

that sometimes I don't think the stats fully represent it. But no, I mean, that's, we're saying the same things there. Are they going to go nuts for Bichet? Like, dude, the market is going to kind of, to pop. And by the way, something that we've discussed on this program going back a couple years now,

a lot of the guys that have done the three-year, two-year option contracts, Matt Chapman, Snell, Alonzo, Belly is a big winner of this. He's another guy that the Mets are looking at. He's another guy that a lot of teams are looking at, that those opt-out contracts have kind of worked well for the players that, hey, you're going to get paid a good chunk of money in those years. And if you have one good season, you opt out and you have the free agency you want. Belly and Bregman make this a formidable offense, okay? But like, you should have just went out and got Pete. He's cheaper than both of those guys. I really wonder with between the people that are like Pete's not going to age well, which I'm just not discussing that because it. I don't,

I honestly do not believe that. He's just such a baseball guy and he just is a hitter. I mean, like I heard there's arguments and their stats that like power hitters are the ones that well a speed leaves everyone so like yeah i don't know go look at that and then like either hit or you don't that like nobody the fact that nobody brought it up with schwarber but they talk about it with p is just so just doesn't make sense in my brain if you know more than me comment below knock yourself out um trev i mean what you just mentioned is you're like yeah bellie and bregman make this a solid line up crazy. Okay, that's going to sneak up to 400 million. Like, so I don't know. I, I wonder if the Mets and guessing, because it says they didn't formally offer a contract, maybe they were ready

to move on from this guy for whatever reason. They were laughing. David Stearns was laughing. So yeah, we heard Pete's here. We know him. We don't, you know, maybe we'll get a face to face. I don't like it, coach. Sense of urgency for once. And yeah. Pete's bat speed is in a 91st percentile right now, by the way. Could you have locked up Pete for five for 125 last, last winter? I think so. I think so.

Hey, good for Pete. Good for Orioles fans who had kind of been down and out as the Toronto Blue Jays go on a run. It feels like Boston's back. AL East, Coach Trev. I, again, I know people don't like this, but like, both both New York teams are in a weird spot right now

that it's going to be very interesting to see how they pivot their offseason and the Red Sox man there was a lot of rumors that Alonzo that could be his landing spot there's a lot of teams that are just trying to get back to where they were last year

and where they were last year wasn't like they're the dream like Boston agreed Boston lost in a three game series to the Yankees. The Yankees got embarrassed by the Blue Jays. Like, I don't know, man. Anxious.

Got a lot of work to do those Mets. They do. Check on Jolly. Check on Jolly. Everyone check on your Mets fan slash Jolly Olive. You got anything else, Coach? I got to go do baseball today with Chris Rose and hear him whack out about this thing.

Oh, he's going to be so aged up. All I wanted to do was have lunch and, like, chill with my dog. not going to happen today. I need a salad so bad. Yeah, no, we went to a different bar last night. Basically, the whole Padres front office was there. I think I was invited to go on an international scouting trip.

I need to look at the schedule. Did they all know Ryan Cohen? Obviously. Oh, my, no, don't do not tell him that. No, Ryan, like, knows that. Oh, like, for real knows him? Yes. Okay, okay.

That makes me feel bad. I work for the Padres and every time I see Ali Marmal he winks at me. So I might work for the Cardinals and the Padres. Like a little, like what do they call that double agent? I like that. My division picks come out next year. It's like I love the Padres and I love the Cardinals, baby. Was AJ Preller there?

I didn't see Preller, but like the guys we were talking to are like his people. So and now I'm his people And you guys are our people We can't thank you enough If there's any big ones I mean this is the juice This is the good stuff Shout out to Rob Sorocco

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