When Pete Alonso made the bold proclamation (see below) that probably helped keep him in Queens another year, he was fresh off his worst statistical season.<\/p>\n
Alonso wasn\u2019t loving how negotiations were going, but he was on his home turf at his Tampa club meeting with owner Steve Cohen and baseball president David Stearns, and he didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n
Alonso, swinging for the fences, told Stearns, \u201cWhen my career is being evaluated for the Hall of Fame years from now, you\u2019ll still be fiddling with your [flipping] formulas.\u201d Only he didn\u2019t say \u201cflipping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alonso made his case, also telling Stearns he\u2019s using analytics and biomechanics to be back to his best soon \u2014 things to sway a numbers expert like Stearns. But it was Alonso\u2019s one charged comment that\u2019s worth examining today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Pete Alonso made the bold proclamation (see below) that probably helped keep him in Queens another year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,20,9,11,320,10,5419,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-224420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-pete-alonso","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}