Former third baseman Chipper Jones appeared on MLB Network Radio on Tuesday to discuss his new role as a special assistant with the Atlanta Braves and talk about the club's current rebuilding process.

When asked how he would approach rebuilding a team, Jones said he would follow the Mets' model and construct a solid foundation around starting pitching.

"I think the blueprint is kind of what the New York Mets are doing right now," Jones said. "Obviously it's hard to come up with three or four guns like the Mets have, whether it's [Matt] Harvey or [Jacob] deGrom, [Zack] Wheeler coming back, [Noah] Syndergaard. They've got the lefty [Steven] Matz. They've got a whole entire rotation that lives at 94-95 plus and has an idea of what they're doing with the breaking stuff. So they're really setting the bar."

Behind their stacked rotation, the Mets won their first National League East title since 2006, snapping their eight-year playoff drought. They ultimately advanced all the way to the World Series before falling in five games to the Kansas City Royals.

While the Mets came away from last year's Fall Classic empty handed, Jones predicts they'll be back on the big stage at the end of this season and tabbed them as his pick to win the World Series in 2016.

"I think they're my early season pick to probably go all the way," Jones said. "Having made it to the World Series last year, just coming up just short, I think they'll probably be the early season favorite to push over the top this year."

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