{"id":67211,"date":"2025-12-10T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:14:14","slug":"why-mets-never-even-bothered-making-pete-alonso-an-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67211\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mets never even bothered making Pete Alonso an offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets didn\u2019t force Pete Alonso to turn them down.<\/p>\n

They did not make a contract offer to their longtime first baseman before he agreed to a five-year, $155 million contract with the Orioles<\/a>, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reports<\/a>, as it became clear to them he was getting bids for more dollars and years than they were comfortable with.<\/p>\n

Alonso, 31, earned his fourth straight All-Star nod and fifth overall this year, hitting .272 with an .871 OPS, 38 home runs, 41 doubles and 126 RBIs.<\/p>\n

And while there are concerns about Alonso\u2019s defense, he has been durable and provided consistent power throughout his career, hitting at least 34 home runs in all of his full-length seasons; he hit 16 homers during the truncated 2020 season.<\/p>\n

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There are no opt-outs or deferrals in Alonso\u2019s contract with the Orioles, according to Sherman.<\/p>\n

There was a stronger market for Alonso this year than last offseason, when he was coming off a down 2024 in which he hit .240.<\/p>\n

He ended up returning to the Mets on a two-year, $54 million contract, which featured $30 million for 2025 and an opt-out, which he exercised after a bounce-back season.<\/p>\n

Alonso\u2019s departure comes a day after closer Edwin Diaz left for the Dodgers <\/a>on a three-year, $69 million contract; the Mets offered three years, $66 million, but indicated there was wiggle room, Sherman reported.<\/p>\n

It also leaves plenty of questions as the Mets now have a major void in their lineup, particularly from the right side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets didn\u2019t force Pete Alonso to turn them down. They did not make a contract offer to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15492,20,3473,9,11,320,10,5419,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-67211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-pete-alonso","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67211","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=67211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}