Not less than one MLB insider stays unconvinced that the New York Mets will maintain onto All-Star first baseman Pete Alonso by all the 2024 season.
“The New York Mets, after spending a record $374.7M on their payroll final season, is not going to signal a marquee free agent the remainder of the winter and can put All-Star first baseman Pete Alonso on the commerce block in July,” Bob Nightengale of USA As we speak predicted over the weekend.
Alonso is on monitor to succeed in free agency this coming fall, hired Scott Boras as his new agent shortly after the 2023 common season ended and seemingly is not all that near signing an extension with the Mets earlier than gamers report for spring coaching in February. ESPN MLB insider Kiley McDaniel not too long ago suggested that Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns would solely get “a prospect that ranks within the 101-200 space of a prospect record” in return for Alonso, partially as a result of the 29-year-old could solely be a rental for any staff that may look to land him earlier than he hits the open market.
Stearns repeatedly mentioned all through the autumn he doesn’t “anticipate” buying and selling Alonso anytime quickly.
“Cash could deliver happiness in the actual world, however Mets proprietor Steve Cohen rudely found it may possibly deliver on distress in baseball,” Nightengale added concerning the 2023 version of the Mets going 75-87. “Cohen may have employed anybody to jot down checks however employed president David Stearns as president of baseball operations in an try to make the Mets the (Los Angeles Dodgers) of the East.”
Cohen and firm missed out on each two-way famous person Shohei Ohtani and Japanese ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto in free company, whereas the New York Yankees acquired All-Star outfielder Juan Soto from the San Diego Padres in December. The massive-spending proprietor could need to assume twice earlier than he indicators off on Stearns buying and selling Alonso, a fan-favorite who has hit extra regular-season dwelling runs (192) than some other participant since Opening Day 2019.
