{"id":340799,"date":"2025-12-11T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340799\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:06:08","slug":"where-mets-can-turn-to-fill-new-pete-alonso-sized-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340799\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Mets can turn to fill new Pete Alonso-sized hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Alonso\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/10\/sports\/pete-alonso-bolts-for-155-million-orioles-contract-in-mets-crusher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">departure Wednesday to the Orioles<\/a> on a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/10\/sports\/why-mets-never-even-bothered-making-pete-alonso-an-offer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> five-year contract worth $155 million<\/a> leaves the Mets with a lineup void and a significant question mark about first base. Will the Mets look for a full-time replacement at the position? Could they fill it from within the organization? Here are options:<\/p>\n<p>Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/p>\n<p>Would bring a superb glove along with a solid lefty bat. The free agent helped give the Padres a jolt following his trade from Baltimore last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Bellinger<\/p>\n<p>The free agent would provide the Mets with a dependable left-handed bat and bring coverage in the outfield.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Goldschmidt<\/p>\n<p>Would bring a right-handed bat, but how much is remaining in the tank at age 38 following an average season offensively with the Yankees?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso\u2019s departure Wednesday to the Orioles on a five-year contract worth $155 million leaves the Mets with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,7310,189358,591,48937,1830,22723,1831,181088,85,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-340799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-mark-vientos","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-free-agency","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","16":"tag-pete-alonso","17":"tag-rhys-hoskins","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}