{"id":337375,"date":"2025-12-10T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:51:11","slug":"mlb-winter-meetings-live-updates-pete-alonso-leaves-mets-to-sign-with-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337375\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Winter Meetings live updates: Pete Alonso leaves Mets to sign with Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Alonso ranked No. 7 on our free agency Big Board<\/a>. The only hitters ahead of him were Kyle Tucker, Bo Bichette, Alex Bregman and Kyle Schwarber. Here\u2019s the Big Board take on Alonso\u2019s value:<\/p>\n

So here we are again with Alonso, trying to run back the opt-out playbook that worked well for Matt Chapman and Blake Snell in recent years. Alonso is hitting free agency off a stronger 2025 season than he did last winter, and he no longer has the qualifying offer attached.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old delivered the best batting average of his career (.272), lowered his strikeout rate, pushed his on-base percentage back near .350 and consistently came through with runners in scoring position. Strictly in the batter\u2019s box, he had as good a year as any free agent besides Schwarber. His defense at first base, however, was a bigger issue than it had been in the past, especially with his throws. A move to DH could come sooner rather than later. Alonso is exceptionally durable: He\u2019s missed just 24 games in his seven-year career; Tucker missed 26 last season alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso ranked No. 7 on our free agency Big Board. The only hitters ahead of him were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-337375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}