Mets should make Francisco Alvarez off-limits | Presented By Your Local Ford Dealers

This is Straight Outta Flushing, brought to you by your local Ford stores. Ford F-150 is the official truck of the New York Mets. You mentioned how there could be a bunch of guys that could trade. I think you said, like, nine, ten guys, which is not crazy. It's easy. It's easy, too, like, comfortably. Yeah, this is, like, not out of the realm of possibility here. Which player would you refuse to trade even if the market loves him, right? I'm not saying this player is untouchable, but you would personally just want him around the team because you're like, hey, I like the fit, maybe the future projection, maybe the age, etc., whatever it may be. Who's that player for you? I have one. I'm curious to hear who yours would be. We're not talking about, like, our untouchables, if you will. We're talking guys that are out of line. Those guys are out of line. So we're taking out Soto. We are taking out Carson Dantzler, AJ Ewing, and Nolan McClain. Taking them out. And I'll put Lindor in that category. Let's throw Lindor in that category just because he's going to be an easy pick otherwise. So Francisco Alvarez. Oh, so we have the same pick. We have the same pick there. Yeah. Yeah. It has to be. It has to be Alvarez. He's 24. He's hitting nukes. He's not playing terrible. The defense I'm still not happy with, but, like, there's just too much there, right? I feel like even if the Mets maximize the return for him now, a return for him a year or two years from now could be two times if he just continues to click and put it all together. The uncertainty that outweighs, I think, the risk with someone like Alvarez or if things go absolutely terrible for him. I think there's a lot of still optimism with him and his future given his age. Like, the amount of catchers that are at his age doing what he's doing are slim enough. You know, he's literally been top five to top ten in baseball and every offensive metric has a catcher since arriving in the league for the most part. Yes, I agree. Defense needs work, but it's one of those things where as time continues going up, he can stay healthy. God willing, he'll get there. We've seen it. He was 21-22, looking like one of the better defensive catchers in baseball. I know it's in there somewhere, Alvarez. He just needs to continue to find it.