But things have gotten off to an interesting start with Diaz and Alonso headed elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Alonso news came out on Wednesday<\/a> morning that he was heading to the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million contract after spending seven years with the Mets.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Mets did not make a contract offer to Alonso prior to him accepting the Orioles\u2019 deal, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reported<\/a>, after it became known that teams were willing to offer more money and years than the Queens baseball team was comfortable with giving.\u00a0<\/p>\n The offseason has included the Mets trading Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers<\/a> in November and Diaz agreeing to a three-year, $69 million contract<\/a> with the Dodgers on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tDelivering insights on all things Amazin\u2019s\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Mets by Mike Puma, exclusively on Sports+\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A source told The Post\u2019s Mike Puma that Diaz was unhappy with the organization\u2019s decision to part ways with pitching coach Jeremy Hefner following the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cohen\u2019s message to fans echoed a similar one that Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns told reporters at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday night after Diaz left for Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSince the deal is not official, I can\u2019t comment on it,\u201d Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said when asked about Diaz. \u201cI am very optimistic about where our offseason is headed. We have got a lot of work to do, but there are a lot of good players out there and I have confidence that we are really going to like where our team is once we get to Opening Day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets owner Steve Cohen is preaching calm amid a turbulent time for the Mets after fans watched Edwin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14766,20,3473,9,11,320,10,5419,319,3929],"class_list":{"0":"post-67410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-edwin-diaz","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","17":"tag-steve-cohen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","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=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Edwin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/205195847_20210725_MetsBlueJays_029cs.jpg\")
Edwin Diaz and Pete Alonso left the Mets in free agency this week. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250217_MetsST_CS045.jpg\")
New York Mets owner Steve Cohen looks on at Spring Training, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in Port St. Lucie, FL. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n