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Scott Boras Details Pete Alonso's Free Agency + Early Impressions From Mets, Yankees Camp

February 24, 2026·1 hr 13 min·5 clips

Joel Sherman and John open by putting Scott Boras at the center of the baseball conversation. They treat him as somebody who is always in the news because of the market he shapes and the stories that follow him. Boras's Scooble case comes up early, including the $32 million win. That leads them into the union, the next CBA fight, and the chance that a future lockout could come out of those talks. Alonzo is part of that Boras discussion, along with Bellinger and Bregman, since so many major free agents run through the same New York orbit. Once that is set, they move into spring-training notes. They are more than a week into camp and trying to separate what matters from what is just noise. The Mets and Yankees take up most of the local focus, especially the spots that still look shaky. The bullpen becomes the main argument. That turns into a back-and-forth over whether the Yankees should have pushed harder for the top relief options. Diaz, Bednar, and Suarez all come into the discussion as part of that case. The question is simple enough: would spending more have bought a real shutdown bullpen, or just another expensive relief group? Sherman and John compare that idea with earlier Yankees bullpen decisions. They bring up Chapman and Britton, and they also point to the Dodgers making bold bullpen moves even after Tanner Scott was a disaster last year. The point is that big clubs can still choose overkill if they think the edge matters. The Yankees, in their view, may be carrying too much baggage from old bullpen failures to do it again. The show then widens back out to the season itself. A 94-win team can still feel unfinished if the ending was bad enough. They argue that the Yankees did not do enough to change that feeling. The final stretch settles into grading the offseason and sorting which clubs improved and which ones slipped. The tone stays conversational, but the judgments are pretty blunt.

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Scott Boras, the CBA, and New York roster questions get a plainspoken baseball read.

Scott Boras sits at the center of the conversation, but Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman spend most of their time on the parts that still matter: arbitration, the CBA, the chance of a lockout, and what the Mets and Yankees have to sort out before the games count.

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