Pete Alonso’s Move to Orioles: Fallout and Reactions

The one thing that I will say, Joe, about Pete Alonso is that, look, Pete Alonso is not going to give any money back. He made a lot of money signing with the Orioles, okay? A crap load of money. But doesn't it feel to me like that's the one move of all the moves this offseason that if you could go back and change it and you ask Pete Alonso privately, hey, if you could go back and just take a little bit less money to stay, and the Mets think, I get it, but to stay with the Mets and not be, I don't know. It seems so weird to me still seeing him play with the Orioles, and look, he's in a better record situation-wise. And Pete Alonso would not have made the Mets win 80 games this year, Joe. He would not, okay? Correct. He's one guy. There's 26 guys on a roster. But I kind of feel like if he was back on the Mets, like, things would have been better. And it feels a little miscast to me in Baltimore. The whole signing was weird at the time, I understood it, and then as you said, he got off to that tough start, then he got really, really hot, he started playing great baseball, so it made sense to me. And in the end, his numbers are going to look really good at the end of the season. But I don't know, if I'm the Mets, maybe just call the Orioles and be like, look, we screwed up. How can we make this right? Give us Pete back. What's the money look like? Let's put him back in New York. I know a lot of Mets fans, Joe, by the way, were really, really, like, destroyed when that happened. They, like, quit the Mets when they let Pete Alonzo go. I don't think he wanted to leave. I think he knew he was going to get, somebody was going to pay him, and it just happened to be the Orioles. But, I mean, I think had the Mets come up with anything even close, he would have rather have stayed with the Mets than any place else. I mean, listen, he had 175 in April, but he does have, to your point, he's over 250 now. He's 25 home runs, 75 ribbons on the season, and not having any protection in front of him, behind him. So it's a lot of injuries there, but, I mean, who's been protecting him in this lineup? The Orioles have been horrific outside of him offensively, unless I'm missing something. I mean, what happened, by the way? No, he hasn't played. But, look, the Mets, it worked out. They got Polanco, he's batting 120 with one home run. It worked out great for them. How much are they paying Polanco? Honestly, Polanco may have been the worst signing of the offseason, I think, when it's all said and done. He's going to be the worst. I mean, what were they thinking there? First base for a guy who never played first base? A guy who's never gotten a big contract, you're just going to throw all this money at him? I know he had a home run the other day, I think. I think he went 0 for 26, Polanco, and then got a hit. It was a home run. That's correct. Oof. Horrible signing. You've got guys like Gunnar Henderson hitting .213, you know, Holliday's only hitting .240 here, O'Neal is .240, you go down this list, it's like, well, actually, it's not bad, it's not terrible here. In this day and age. It's just disgusting there, Gunnar Henderson. And my point with Rashman was, I don't know what, he was not exactly crushing the ball to begin with this season here, so, you know, he too had his, not only the injuries, but, you know, he's not, I don't know what kind of hitter they think they're getting in Boston, but he has not lived up to expectations at all outside of that first year, so.