Pete Alonso’s room for maneuver to negotiate a return to the New York Mets is getting narrower and narrower, and the current circumstances suggest that he would have to give in to what they offer him and accept that his gamble failed.
According to reports, Pete Alonso turned down a seven-year, $158 million extension offer in 2023 because he felt he could get something better, but his offensive performance is not something to offer him a mega contract and defensively his metrics do not help him either.
At 30 years old, he is at a stage where the Mets are in a position not to increase what they have already offered him, which according to the New York Post, is a three-year contract for $68-70 million, and according to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, Alonso has two alternatives, the first is to swallow his pride and accept that his bet did not work out or sign with another team.
“Returning to Queens on a much smaller contract would require Pete Alonso to swallow a large portion of pride. But if the alternative is signing elsewhere just to save face, that doesn’t seem very appealing either. And where exactly is elsewhere right now?” Anthony DiComo opined.
Pete Alonso is not valued by the Mets
The Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino suggested in an appearance on the podcast ‘The Chris Rose Rotation’ that the Mets should value the intangibles that Pete Alonso brings to the team and not be so guided by the data given to them by the applications.
For Pasquantino, Alonso contributes a lot to the Mets and is not valued by the team, which is likely to culminate in his departure.
“It’s tough, Pete has been the face of the Mets for the last six years and that should mean something, in my opinion. I’m not there, but it doesn’t seem like (the Mets) value the things that he brings, beyond the numbers,” Pasquantino said.