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Don Hahn (0:00)
This is the Don Hahn and Rosenberg Podcast.
Peter Rosenberg (0:04)
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Don Hahn (0:05)
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Alan Hahn (0:13)
All right. It's a big five o' clock hour. We go. Don Han, Rosenberg, ESPN New York 800-919-3776. Of course, the number and we got lots of calls to get to with you on a big Friday here in New York City. The Yankees start a series at Fenway park tonight against the Red Sox. And then over at Citi Field, the Mets continue their home stand. They play now against the Tampa Rays. They come in. David Stern spoke before this game. Now obviously everybody wanted to know about Kodai Senga. He's on the 15 day, but there's no update now. He's still, I believe still was getting the MRI when he was talking. So they don't really have the MRI results yet on the hamstring. But you know, he's going to miss sometimes. How much more it still remains to be seen. But there's some other interesting things to bring up as well that Stearns talked about. One of them is another injury update. So Frankie Montas, as you know, he's another pitcher of trying to work his way back. He will have another rehab outing next week, scheduled to pitch outing tonight against or before I should say Syracuse. So I guess he's still working his way back, but it doesn't sound like he's ready anytime soon. Jesse Winker, he's multiple weeks away, so still waiting for him to come back as well. So injury wise, middle of the season, this stuff you always deal with. But one thing that the Mets maybe is a, it's gotta be a bit of a surprise. Although this really is what they've been about and what Stearns has been about in building his team is not overspending for starting pitching and trying instead to just find the pieces that fit the right way. And what it's turned into is the Mets having the best record in baseball right now going into this series at 45 and 24. And a lot of it had to do with the starting pitching. And he just discussed what they were, what they've been getting out of their rotation and how much of it is really a surprise when you consider a sub 3 era.
David Stearns (2:14)
I don't know that I could come into a season and say that I expected our starting staff to have a sub 3 era. I expect us to have a good starting rotation, a good pitching rotation. But sure, I think a sub 3 era probably exceeds my expectations Especially when you add on the injuries we had in camp. But I also saw reason to believe that each of the guys who were in the rotation mix could and would be successful. You never know whether it's going to work. But we had reason to believe for all of them that there were things that they could do, things that in certain cases we could help them do that would lead them to success and be able to contribute to a winning rotation. And in terms of where Hef comes into us, comes into this, he's been outstanding. Hef, our entire pitching group. Desi, Rosie, Danny Barnes is part of this, our catching infrastructure. Shirles is part of this, being able to communicate with pitchers. And I've talked about this before, really meeting them where they are understanding what each pitcher is looking to achieve, where they are in their careers, how they want to get better, and working with them to help them be the best versions of themselves. And I think Hef does that extremely well and is aided by a really talented group around him as well.