Pete Alonso returning to Mets for a short -term contract: reports
New York Mets return the first base Pete Alonso On two -year -old, $ 54 million in contracts, according to several reports.
The deal allegedly comes with withdrawal After 2025. The contract also reportedly comes with a $ 10 million signing bonus and a $ 20 million salary for 2025, with a player of a $ 24 million player for 2026.
Alonso was the second team of the Florida Gators program in 2016, and spent the first six seasons hosting home runs (226), including the Rookie 53 record, which assisted in his continuation of the Rookie of the Year 2019. He is also he. He made four All-Sar teams, including each of the last three, and has a career .854 ops.
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Alons’s uncertain return to Mets was one of the most common stories of the MLB off-season. The team owner Steve Cohen expressed skepticism that the team would re -sign Star Sluggers during the Mets Day ‘Amazin’ day at the end of January.
There, Cohen said that negotiations with Alons go “worse” than they had with a large off -season signature of the off -season, Juan Soto.
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“We gave a significant offer to Pete and, you know, what David said was right. He has the right to go out and explore his market,” Cohen said. “That’s what he does. Personally, this was an exhausting conversation and negotiations. I mean, Soto was difficult. This is worse.”
Still, Cohen never excluded Alons’s return.
“I will never say no. There is always a possibility. But the reality is to go ahead, and we continue to bring players. As we continue to bring players, the reality becomes harder to incorporate Pete into what is a very expensive group of players we already have.
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“I am brutally honest. I don’t like negotiations, I don’t like what’s presented to us, and maybe that changes. Certainly, I’ll always stay flexible. If it stays this way, I think we are” I’ll have to get used to the fact that we may have to go forward with the existing players we have. “
Now Alonso has returned to Queens and will be paired with Soto at least one season.
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