Orioles Rumors: Does signing Pete Alonso make sense after acquiring Taylor Ward?

Orioles Rumors: Does signing Pete Alonso make sense after acquiring Taylor Ward?

So, the O’s went and got a bat in Taylor Ward, but does that necessarily mean that they’re out of play for some of the big free agent bats? We’ll talk about that coming up on this episode of the Locked On Orioles podcast. [Music] You are Locked on Orioles, your daily Baltimore Orioles podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. your team every day. Hey there, Orioles fans. Today is Friday, November 21st, 2025, and welcome back in to the Locked on Orioles podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. As always, I’m your host, Connor Nukem. And coming up on today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the big free agent hitters that are out there potentially for the Orioles. Even after acquiring Taylor Ward from the Angels in the Grayson Rodriguez trade this week, it doesn’t necessarily mean the Orioles are out on adding another big hitter. So, we’ll talk about already some connections for the Orioles to Pete Alonzo and Kyle Tucker, and we’ll chat about the other big names on the offensive market who would fit in Baltimore. But that’s all coming up on this episode of the Locked On Orioles podcast, which is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. So obviously the big news of the week is the Orioles making what is still even with the, you know, the reasoning and the explanations and the episodes we’ve done is still quite a shocking trade. A one for one deal, Grayson Rodriguez to the Angels for outfielder Taylor Ward. And Ward, you know, even though he’s only got one year left on his contract, he’s going to sit in the middle of the Orioles lineup in 2026. He is a good player and a good offensive position addition that makes this team better next year. We know the Orioles wanted a powerhitting, slugging, right-handed hitting outfielder and Taylor Ward kind of checks all those boxes for the Orioles in terms of what they were trying to add to their offense this off season. However, just because they got him in that trade, I don’t think means they’re done adding bats this off season and I don’t think it takes them out of the running for the bigger money bats. Now, I’m going to make it clear that if the Orioles have a certain amount of money to spend, even if they’re going to play at the top end of free agency, I would rather them spend that money on starting pitching. Let’s make that clear at the beginning. But I think there’s money and there is roster room to also spend that money on a hitter. So, let’s begin with someone who I think would still kind of perfectly fit with the Orioles because Jeff Passen did his huge offseason preview article in ESPN on Tuesday. Something he does, you know, at the beginning of every offseason, talks about all the teams, all the free agents, all the trade candidates, everything out there. And most of the things that Passin reported about the Orioles in that article, we already knew. They’re ready to spend. They’re active talking to the top free agent starting pitchers. We knew these things. But in his blurb, he wrote about Pete Alonzo, become a free agent. Passen writes, quote, “He could stay with the Mets, move up to Boston, bring Cincinnati, the big bat it desperately needs, or if Ryan Mount Castle is traded or non-tendered, split the first base and DH jobs in Baltimore with rookie Samuel Bisayio, who will also spend plenty of of time at catcher.” That is the quote from Jeff Pass. That is not hard reporting saying the Orioles have strong interest in Pete Alonzo, but that is certainly a connection between the two sides from one of the better resourced baseball reporters. It’s a it’s it’s some speculation, some reporting it seems, but it makes sense, right? And the Orioles, even after the addition of Taylor Ward, I think still have room to add a big bat, especially if it’s in that first base DH mix. Now, the current contract projection for Pete Alonzo, kind of the median projection from the free agent matrix done by John Becker and Fan Graphs is a 4-year, $120 million deal for Alonzo. And that would be a lot of money for the Orioles. But quite frankly, any multi-year contract would be a lot of money for the Orioles compared to what they’ve spent since Mike Elias has taken over. And honestly, four years 12, that’s doable for this Orioles team right now. And it probably hinges on getting rid of Mount Castle. We’ll talk about that at the end of the show. And it probably means Kobe Mayo is traded away and no longer on your roster. We’ll talk about that, too. And again, Alonzo would kind of split time at first base and DH with Samuel Bisayio. But most importantly, it would give you a big bat in the middle of the order. Allonzo is 30 years old. He will be 31 in December. So, next year will be his age 31 season. And he is coming off his best season since 2022. Allonzo with the Mets this year for the second straight year. played in all 162 games. There’s a you can count on one hand the number of players that play all 162 at this point in baseball. Alonzo’s done it backto-back years. He’s played at least 152 games in every single full season he’s been in the big leagues. 161 as a rookie in 2019, 57 in the short and 2020 season, then 152, 160, 154, 162, 162. The guy just doesn’t get hurt and he produces at a 120 W wrc plus or better in every major league season. He’s consistent this year with the Mets over 700 plate appearances. He slashed 272 347 524 hit 38 bombs had a 141 WRC plus which means he was 41% better than a league average hitter. He was awesome again this year. He, you know, he he tied 2022 for his second best offensive season ever. He had his highest career batting average. He had his second highest career slugging percentage. He lowered his strikeout rate from the past two seasons. Like, he is still in the prime of his hitting career, even at age 31. And under the hood, he was chasing a little bit more. He was swinging and missing a little bit more in 2025 than he’s done in the past. And that meant his walks went down a little bit. But he was still elite when he was making contact among qualified hitters in Major League Baseball in 2025. Pete Alonzo was sixth in barrel rate. He was 11th in hard hit rate. He was seventh in average exit velocity. He was sixth in EV50, which is like a better job of showing, you know, basically taking out the outliers in your exit velocities. And most of those numbers were career best for Alonzo coming in his platform year at age 30. He really mashed fast balls even better than rates he used to. He was weirdly a lot better against right-handed pitchers than he was left-handed pitchers. But again, throughout his career, he’s been a little better against righties, still good against lefties. And as long as it is a deal, something similar to that four-year $120 million projection, I’m down to add Pete Alonzo to this lineup. Again, I’m not sure I want to give Pete Lonzo something like six years. He’s a guy who’s already kind of struggling a bit defensively at first base. Like I definitely be fine playing him at first base in 2026. Beyond that, he’s probably moving more closer and closer to a full-time DH. So it just gives you less roster flexibility to have him there. But if he continues to mash, it’s fine if he’s just a DH long term. But for now, he can play enough first base for it to be okay. And again, right, this hinges on the Orioles moving other things around. and we’ll talk about Mount Castle, but it would really push out Kobe Mayo. Now, it didn’t mean you you’d have to trade Mayo. He still has minor league options. He could once again begin the year in AAA Norfol. Not sure he would like that at all. Quite frankly, I’m pretty sure he would not like that, but there still be some playing time for him maybe, but it’s more likely the O would try to package him in a trade for a pitcher if they traded for Alonzo. As good as Mayo could be, and we really haven’t seen it come together yet for Mayo, and it still absolutely could. I’m certainly not anything close to giving up on Kobe Mayo. He’s still got plenty of big league time ahead of him. But Pete Alonzo is Pete Alonzo. And yes, he’s much older than Mayo and he could be on his decline sooner than you wanted to be. But there’s a good chance Kobe Mayo never even reaches the level of Petalono. I mean, no one would argue that Pete Alonzo is not an upgrade over Kobe Mayo and makes the Orioles better in 2026 and probably in the years beyond that as well. And that’s not even factoring in that if you do trade May, you’re probably going to get a pitcher or something back that’s going to help the team. So, I know Taylor Ward clogs it up a little more because it adds another bat. But, you know, you’re thinking on the team right now it’s either Mount Castle or Mayo at first base. Pete Alonzo makes the team a lot better than either of those guys do. And that’s especially from what we saw from the Grayson Rodriguez trade this week. That’s how Mike Elias and the Orioles need to be approaching this offseason. That’s how they seem to be doing it already. And we’re still in November. It’s that we are trying to make this team as good as we can for next year, which strays away from a lot of Elias’s thinking and the things he’s talked about with always taking, you know, future value and long-term success into account as well. Not that they’re going to stop doing that and they shouldn’t. That would be stupid. But focusing a little bit more on being good in the present seems to already be the plan for the Orioles this year. And I think Pete Alonzo would fit into that. But Alonzo is not the only big-time bat out there. There’s some others that could fit in Baltimore. And weirdly still reporting that one of those guys could be Kyle Tucker. Let’s let’s talk about that coming up next. But first, this episode of the Locked On Orioles podcast is brought to you by Game Time. The NFL season is back, and honestly, there’s nothing better than getting in the stadium, being surrounded by fans, cheering on your team. And let’s be honest, getting tickets can be a hassle between cues, login screens, and prices jumping at checkout. It’s frustrating. That is why I use Game Time, the app that gives the advantage back to fans. Game time is fast, it’s easy, and it’s backed by the Game Time guarantee. You’ll always get 100% authentic tickets delivered on time and at the best price. Plus, all fees are included. 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I don’t think anyone is arguing that that is the case, but there’s other big bats out there. Now, obviously, the biggest bat is Kyle Tucker. He’s projected, I think, to get the most money out of anybody this off season. And Ken Rosenthal in his, you know, notes column in the Athletic on Thursday reported that the Orioles, despite, I mean, this is after making the trade for Taylor Ward, are still interested in outfielder Kyle Tucker. Now, I don’t see that happening at all. I give it a 0.0001% chance maybe that the Orioles would actually sign Kyle Tucker. That medium contract projection for him is for 10 years, $370 million. It’s lower than we thought it would be this time last year, but it’s still a 10-year commitment. I don’t think the Orioles are making to Kyle Tucker, even though, you know, Mike Elias was a big part of drafting and developing Tucker in Houston. So, there’s that connection. The Orioles could they could still play an outfielder, right? Rosenthal’s reporting was that, you know, if the Orioles really did go in and get Kyle Tucker, they tried to trade one of, you know, Colton Cowser or Dylan Beavers for pitching or even try to package away to, you know, dump Tyler O’Neal’s salary on someone. I mean, if you traded Cowser, you’d still have no one in center field because again, Ward and Tucker are both corner outfielders, not guys you want to put in center. And even though the Orioles signed Leo Tveris, you don’t want Leo Tveris to be your everyday center fielder. You want him on your roster as your fifth outfielder to be there for defense. And again, I really don’t see it like they Taylor W trade or not. There’s just the Orioles aren’t jumping from almost nothing to giving out a 10-year close to $400 million contract to someone, especially someone in Kyle Tucker, who was an amazing player, but had a down year in Chicago, dealt with multiple different injuries this year that brought his price tag down and I think raised some questions about him as a player. I just I I it’s it’s cool that this is being reported about the Orioles. just see no way that a Kyle Tucker deal is going to happen, especially after adding another outfielder in Taylor Ward. But after seeing that Grayson Rodriguez trade this week, I’m not going to rule out anything that Mike Elias and the Orioles could possibly do this off season because that one came out of left field. Tucker could come out of, you know, eight rows up the bleachers and they just Yeah, they’re like maybe they get a better price and it ends up being eight years, you know, 280 million and Kyle Tucker is a Baltimore Orio. would be crazy, but I’m not going to rule it out. I I do think there are though better options out there among big hitters. And I I think really the more important part of what Ken Rosenthal wrote about and reported in that piece on Thursday is that Ken wrote that he’s feeling hearing from multiple rival executives in baseball that the Orioles are being one of the most aggressive teams right now. And and I think one executive said he expects the Orioles to be the first team to sign a top starting pitcher this offseason. He didn’t just say sign a starting pitcher like oh hey the Orioles you know they signed Lucas Gilito congrats before anyone else. No, no, no. Like sign one of these top fron Valdez, Dylan CE, Ranger Suarez, etc. type arms and and this has been in multiple reports that the Orioles are like and and we’ve seen it play out with Kitridge and Grayson and other things, but the Orioles early in the offseason have been the most aggressive team and and that’s what you want to hear and you want to see out of Mike Elias and David Rubenstein. But there are other guys out there, right? Bo Bashette projected about a seven-year $200 million deal. You could find a way to fit him, right? Him and Jordan Westber both have injury issues. Maybe they could kind of split third base and DH to mix things up. It’s kind of the same way you could fit Alex Bregman projected for like a five-year $160 million deal. A little cheaper, has the Astros connection to Elias. Maybe Jordan Westber could learn to play a little first base to give you a little more versatility to move guys around the infield and fit another infielder in there. I mean, maybe Jackson Holidayiday is not an everyday player for this team in 2026 to fit someone like Alex Bregman in there. Even with the Taylor Ward addition, if you don’t trust Colton Cows, the Orioles could still theoretically have an opening in center field. They have an opening at first base. Those are the positions Cody Bellinger plays. He hits lefties. Well, projected for five years 140. That’s a little bit lower on the price spectrum. I mean, if they’re looking for a first base DH type, like I talked about with Alonzo, maybe they take a chance on Munitaka Murakami, you know, coming over from Japan projected for about six years, 150 million. I mean, there’d certainly be those DHABS for someone like Kyle Schwarber, projected around four years, 130 million this offseason. I mean, he almost hit 60 home runs this year for the Phillies. That’d be a welcome addition to the Orioles lineup. All these guys, you you can find a way. And again, it’s something we’ve talked about the last couple of offseason when we’ve wanted the Orioles to spend, we’ve wanted them to spend on pitching. And every offseason, we’ve gone in saying, “Hey, this offense feels pretty set.” at, you know, they made the move where they just basically replaced Anthony Santon there with Tyler O’Neal last offseason, but otherwise, you know, they add a piece here or there and a position player kind of on the margins of the roster, but it never really felt like the past couple of years the Orioles needed to make giant offensive splashes because in 2022, the young offense was coming together. In 2023, they were a top 10 offense. And in 2024, despite the struggles down the stretch, they were also a top 10 offense. So, it was like the pitching’s the issue. Go get the pitching. This offense still has more exciting young young bats coming through the system that can fill the holes and they’ll be great. Well, after all the struggles and the 75 win season by the end was maybe more due to the offense than the pitching, you get to a different point for the Orioles this offseason. Pretty much everything so far in the first not even month of this offseason has been different for the Orioles as we’ve seen from their multiple moves. Going after hitting, I don’t think should stop them from going after pitching, but it is something that they should try and do. And I don’t think there’s any spot on the roster except for catcher where they can’t find a way to fit in one of these big-time hitters as an upgrade. In the infield, you can move somebody to first base. You can rotate into DH. You can find a way in the outfield. Even with Taylor Ward, you can there’s at bats to be had out there to make this team better. I understand that the fit is still a little murky for another hitter, especially after adding reward, right? This is a different conversation if the Orioles didn’t trade for Taylor Ward this week. There’s a much bigger glaring hole and we know they have to add a bat. They added a bat this week. I still think they could add a second one and not just one on the margins, a bench bat. A a legitimate everyday player who hits fourth or fifth for you could still be out there and could still be added. I understand that fit can be an issue sometimes, but at the end of the day, when you see the kind of things the Dodgers are doing, sometimes the fits don’t sound perfect, but when you add another good player who at the end of the day is making your team better and making it more likely that you can get to the postseason and making it more likely you can win a World Series, at some point, if you have the ability and that player has the interest to come to Baltimore, you just do it and you figure it out later, right? Maybe you make a trade later in the offseason to free up more playing time or an injury happens because they’ve certainly happened to the Orioles the past couple of years. Whatever it may be, just make the move. If you want Pete Alonzo, if you want Kyle Schwarber, they have interest in Baltimore, you’re willing to spend the money and the years it takes to get them, do it and we’ll figure it out because those players, all those players I just listed will make the Orioles offense better, will make the Orioles team better, make them more likely to turn it around and win a World Series in 2026. At this point, after how disappointing last year was, that’s what you got to care about. And so far, Michael Eyes is operating with the aggressiveness of caring about that too. So, let’s keep it going. But what I will say is despite all that, there is a move that can be made today that would make it a little bit easier to fit in another big bat. Let’s talk about Ryan Mount Castle. 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So, I just got done saying doesn’t matter if there’s an opening there on the roster or not. If you can find a better player, go and get him. But there’s a move that can be made today that makes it a little easier. The non-tender deadline is coming up here on Friday. I believe it’s I think it’s 600 p.m. Eastern time here on Friday evening. What is the non-tender deadline? Well, let’s start with arbitration. The way that kind of rookie contracts work in Major League Baseball is that you are under team control for about six years. The first three years you are pre-arbitration. You’re getting paid you know 800,000 900,000 maybe up to a million dollars per year making around or a little bit above the league minimum. And then in that fourth year, you hit arbitration in which your previous year’s performance basically dictates how much money you are going to make in that next season. And sometimes the team and the player agree to a number, sometimes they don’t. And a third party has to come in and kind of set the number that the player will make. So you have a non-tender deadline because sometimes players are in, you know, are heading into their fourth or fifth or sixth years with a team. After six years, you do hit free agency and they’re just not good anymore, right? And arbitration can’t go down. So, say you make five million in year four and then you are terrible, terrible in year five. For that next year, you can’t make less than 5 million. You could stay at 5 million. You can make 5.1, but you can’t make less. and maybe you’re so bad that it’s like we don’t even want you on the roster anymore. So, at that point, you would just non-tender a player. So, instead of having to pay the 5 million, you pay nothing and you send that player directly into free agency a year or maybe two years earlier than they were scheduled to become a free agent. That’s what happened with good example is Dylan Carlson. Dylan Carlson was non-endered by the Rays last offseason and that’s why he was available for the Orioles to sign him to a one-year $1 million deal before he would have been set to hit free agency. I bring this all up because the Orioles have a candidate for a non-tender. Really, they do have multiple candidates, right? I mean, let’s I guess first of all look at the guys who are arbitration eligible. this off seasonason who are still on the roster. Trevor Rogers, Tyler Wells, Dean Kramer, Adley Rutman, Felix Bautista, Kyle Bradish, Gunnar Henderson. Those guys that they’re all getting tendered contracts, but there are some guys who could be non-tender candidates. Keegan Aken about $3 million he’ll get. Year Canó 1.8 million. Alex Jackson 1.8 million. Albert Suarez 900,000. And then there’s Ryan Mount Castle at 7.8 million. Now, the guys like Akin and Canó and Suarez, like, yeah, they’ve had struggles and they’ve had injuries over the past year, but all those numbers are for 3 million or much less. That’s a small enough number of money where it’s worth it probably, not definitely, but probably for the Orioles to just tender those guys a contract. They have David Rubenstein willing to pay more money. Even if, you know, Keegan Akin doesn’t make it through all of 2026 and he just is kind of toast, you’re not harboring over the extra three million you paid Keegan Aken because he was he was good for you for a long time. And maybe that’s the end. Whatever. Like Year Canó, maybe he, you know, that 2 million you might have to pay him. He’s been so good for so long and he also has minor league options. So you could even put him back down in Norfol next year if he’s struggling a little bit. That’s worth paying the 2 million if he get anywhere close back to the Cano levels we know. But Ryan Mount Castle at 7.8, let’s just call it $8 million. What Ryan Mount Castle gave to the Orioles last year is not worth anything close to $8 million. Ryan Mount Castle who has been frustrating for a couple of years and there’s been some injury stuffs he’s dealt with and there’s been, you know, some medical stuff that he’s dealt with as well. He was still able to at least be a league average hitter when he was out there and he was greatly improving defensively at first base which was making him a little more valuable and you know he was hitting lefties. It was still worth it to have him on the team. He was a productive member of the Baltimore Orioles. I like Ryan Mount Castle. He seems like a great guy. It’s been a cool story since the O’s drafted him out of high school in 2015 to see him climb the system and kind of establish himself in the big leagues with the O’s. He’s going to be 29 years old in February. It’s not like he’s out of his prime, but he played only 89 games, had 357 played appearances, and had just an 81 W wrc plus. He was 19% worse than league average. He was worth negative war at fan graphs. He hit just seven home runs this season. His walk rate somehow was a career worst. His strikeout rate was also somehow a career worst this season. His batting average was a career low. His on base percentage was a career low. His slugging was very very much a career low. It was far and away like not even close the worst season Ryan Mount Castle has had in the big leagues. And he was he was just not a useful or productive player. He’s a free agent after 2026. He’s going to be due $8 million for next year in arbitration. That’s not a guy who’s worth 8 million. Now again, with David Rubenstein, you can, you know, open up the checkbook a little bit more and $8 million for a player that’s not great, doesn’t hurt the Orioles as much at this point. But if there’s one guy that’s blocking the Orioles getting better in that lineup, it is Ryan Mount Castle. And if he was still producing, you know, these 110 WRC plus seasons we’re used to from him, I’d say, you know what, if you’re going to pay him the 8 million, pay him the 8 million. He’s still a worthwhile hitter on this team that can help you. I don’t see that as being the case anymore, right? It’s it’s good defense at first, but that’s not a premium enough position to keep him around. The bat was just terrible. He’s refusing to pull the ball in the air, even though that’s what makes him good. Despite the elite bat speed, it’s like he can’t get in front of balls. I He tried to make adjustments. The wall seemed to mess him up. The wall came back in. That didn’t matter. He just got way, way worse. Kobe Mayo started to show some signs of life in September. Samuel Basio is now on this roster and is going to play some first base in DH. You’ve now got Taylor Ward in the equation. Maybe pushes someone like Tyler O’Neal more to DH to keep him healthy and you want to DH Adley to keep him healthy. And it’s just you’re going to try to get all those guys at bats. Are you going to try to get a guy who is 29 and who had an 81 WRC plus last year? Is that the guy you’re going to try to squeeze in at bats for at first base and DH? No, I I don’t think so. I guess it’s still possible the Orioles between now and the deadline could find a trade partner for Mount Castle. I highly doubt it. Maybe it’s a low-level prospect. Maybe it’s just a little bit of cash, whatever it may be for the Orioles. I guess it’s possible they could tender the contract and then just spend the rest of the offseason trying to trade him, packaging him with other more appealing players to get an okay relief arm, just get something back for him instead of losing him for nothing. But at this point with only one year left and with Mayo and Bisio here and the opportunity to bring in someone even better like a Pete Alonzo, I just think the thing that makes the most sense is non-endering Ryan Mount Castle basically releasing him, sending him to free agency one year early and not having to pay that 8 million. Again, there were some great moments. There were some awesome moments, a lot of them against Toronto. There were some cool runs, some red-hot streaks that he went on. seemed like a great guy in that clubhouse, but it’s just I and I think he will get another major league job. Someone’s gonna sign him, I think, to a major league contract if the Orioles release him. Like, I don’t think this means he’s done. It’s still plenty of promise in that bat. Plenty of bat speed, but I think it’s just time for a in some different ways than it was for Grayson Rodriguez, but just a time for a change of scenery with the Orioles and Ryan Mount Castle. And if they do that, that really does kind of open you up to all the rest of this. And the other part is even if they’re not going to sign a Pete Alonzo or a Cody Bellinger or whomever, I would at this point just rather play Kobe Mayo and give him those everyday at bats and see what he’s got in a full season rather than give those abs to Ryan Mount Castle. So when the other two choices are better, play Kobe Mayo or sign someone good. When you’re choice number three and you are more expensive than one of the other two choices and you’re the worst of the three, there’s not a lot of reasons to keep him around. I just think the Mount Castle thing, while I I love Ryan Mount Castle, seems like a great guy, produced some cool moments, I I think it’s it’s run its course. And if the O’s do make that decision, certainly we’ll have it covered in more detail next week on the show. Also got a fun episode coming up. We’re going to do a crossover with one of the hosts of Locked on Angels. We’re going to dive even deeper into the Grayson Rodriguez Taylor Ward trade. Kind of get the Angels perspective of a okay, how good really is Taylor Ward and B, what are Angels fans thinking about getting the offjured Grayson Rodriguez? That’s coming up on the show next week. Until then, make sure to like, comment, and subscribe to the Locked on Oreos YouTube channel again. I know audio, lighting, everything not where it needs to be. Hopefully by sometime next week kind of the rest of the equipment’s coming in by by the end of next week by Thanksgiving. The hope is we’ll kind of have this all fixed and hopefully cruising a lot better audio-wise, video-wise, all that good stuff. But in the meantime, it means a lot if you still subscribe, follow the show wherever you listen, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and of course, you can always email me locked [email protected]. thoughts on the show, thoughts on the O’s, questions you want to ask, whatever it may be. 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The Baltimore Orioles are going to spend some money this winter, but should they go after a big bat along with a big arm? Host Connor Newcomb discusses the possibility of the Orioles signing Pete Alonso, or any of the other big-time bats like Alex Bregman, Kyle Schwarber, or Bo Bichette. Plus, why Ryan Mountcastle’s time in Baltimore may be over.

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