Pete Alonso says Steve Cohen & David Stearns ‘got to come through’ on extension
Pete Alonso finally said the calm part aloud.
Tuesday evening, after having struck two circuits to establish the record of all the Mets, the first goal player of the house expressed the desire to remain a Met for Life. With 254 Home Runs in career, Alonso will probably maintain the title of the King of Home Run of the dishes until he leaves the Queens. This outing could potentially arrive this winter, because it faces the possibility of becoming a free agent for the second time in as many years.
The owner Steve Cohen and the president of baseball operations David Stearns can prevent it by locking it with a long -term extension.
“I am aiming to play baseball until I spend my 40 year season, and for me, I will work hard and do that,” Alonso said on Tuesday evening at Citi Field after the dishes crushed the Braves of Atlanta, 13-5. “The commercial side – Steve and David, they have to pass.”
Alonso, 30, asked for a multi -year contract last winter, but one never materialized. He accepted the dishes on a $ 45 million over two -year contract which pays him $ 30 million this season, and has a player option for 2026 that would pay him $ 24 million. However, with the season he has, he will certainly retire to try more money and more years of quarter this winter. No agent would allow Alonso to be satisfied less than what is worth, especially not a pro-Labor super-agent like Scott Boras.
For years, the coaches and his teammates from Alonso said he wanted to stay with the team that wrote him. Alonso himself said he would like to stay, but he was never as categorical or direct as on Tuesday evening. Passing a franchise icon like Darryl Strawberry could embrace even a less player, but Alonso has won the right to be frank, having helped the dishes to put no rooms in the seats since its recruit season in 2019.
A choice of draft in the second round at the University of Florida in 2016, Alonso became an All-Star Quintuple who regularly strikes large circuits in great moments. He is able to manage the severe criticism that accompanies the game in the Northeast, and helped take the hardness of the spotlights of his teammates at times when he burned too hot for them to manage.
Even Tuesday evening, he tried to remove the attention from himself and put him in the team.
“It’s really not going to settle because for the moment, we are in the heart of the playoff series,” said Alonso. “I don’t really want to do this for myself because it’s about the team, these are guys who fight every day and do everything they can to win. I’m just trying to do my part.”
Alonso and his wife, Haley, have returned to the Queens community through the Alonso Foundation. They were solid stewards of the organization, sensitizing people affected by September 11 and joining forces with animal shelters throughout the region. They sailed in the tumult of the club by scandals, controversies, hires, layoffs and property changes without ever publicly expressing any negative feeling.
Alonso struck more circuits than any other recruit in the history of baseball in 2019 on the way to win the recruit of the year of the NL. Leaving the pandemic, he helped generate excitement for a new owner, Cohen. He rolled in 131 points in 2022 to help dishes take their five -year drought in the playoffs.
Last fall, he struck one of the most important circuits in the history of the franchise on the road against the Brewers Milwaukee. A ninth circuit in match 3 of the Wild Card series sent the Mets to the Division series for the first time since 2015.
“I love New York city, I love this fans base. It was great,” said Alonso. “But again, the company is the commercial side, if they choose to go to another direction. But for me, it was a treat and absolute pleasure here. I mean, this group is really special.”
The only thing he could not do in a food uniform is to win a world series. Strawberry, however, did it, but he then left for his Los Angeles dodgers in the hometown. Dwight “Doc” Gooden, the AS of the World Series team in 1986, also left the dishes, crossing the city at the Yankees. Their departures have emptied the fans.
Alonso wanting to stay to help the dishes win a title may not compensate for the thirty years of grief, but that would certainly help a new generation of fans of food to start believing. You have to believe, right?
“There is only one organization with which you are written, there is only one organization that you propose and you have set these notes,” said Brandon Nimmo, a local voltiger who signed an eight -year contract after the 2022 season to be able to end his career with the food. “Must restart is not something that everyone wants to do.”
Few players mean as much for their clubs and their fans as the food. The feeling is mutual.
Everything remains is a mutual agreement on a contract.
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