[Sherman] Mets never made an offer to Pete Alonso.

They felt his market was pushing beyond their comfort level on years and dollars.

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  6. Let this be a lesson that unless you are David Wright, if a player seems like a Met for their entire career, they will not be.

  7. Idk man, Pete’s hitting profile is not one dimensional for a power hitter of his caliber, plus he walks and strikes out at really solid levels.

    Middle of the order bat who slugs consistently and is homegrown, hard to find them. Specially weird when you have the richest owner in baseball. Puzzling

  8. Man, I get it, it’s a baseball decision, they don’t want their own Chris Davis. If I’m Alonso I’m livid though and going full Chipper Jones on them every chance I get.

  12. Highest payroll in baseball and you’re not comfortable offering anybody a big contract. What is even going on anymore?

  14. David Stearns may need to grow a beard and move to the mountains after this offseason. Holy shit.

  15. Just felt like they never wanted him back, even going back to last offseason. Only brought him back when it was late last year and a chance to be the team HR king

    Anyway I’m dead inside

  19. I feel like if you’re the Mets, the team with the richest owner in MLB, you can throw out an offer to retain the franchise home run leader even if it’s more years and money than you were comfortable with. You can absorb it if the last two years are bad.

    Stearns feels like he thinks he’s still running the Brewers. It’s genuinely bizarre.

  22. I’m glad Stearns is doing this. I love Pete and Nimmo, but that old core never won us jack shit. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to rebuild a team and this was one of them.

    Not to mention but his defense was starting to become a major issue late in the season.

    I’m still more upset about Diaz tho.

  26. No offer is insane. Everyone knew Alonso wanted more years on the contract than Mets did but to not even try to keep him is wild.

  29. The kind of decision where if you’re a fan you’re seething now, but 2 years from now, you’ll be thankful Stearns made this decision.

    I see that contract getting ugly by year 3.

    1B who doesn’t want to DH with diabolical defense and the kind of profile where offensive production could crater very fast.

  31. I almost feel bad for Mets fans right now

    not sure what the plan is not even making an offer

  32. After the overinflated contracts they’ve been handing out these past few years, not even offering your one household name a contract is an insane slap in the face lol

  37. Absolutely insane. He had the best year of his career and his contract was super reasonable. With the richest owner in baseball, the Mets are acting like they’re the Reds or the Pirates. Did Cohen also invest his money with Madoff or something?

  40. Now that is funny. Not even making an offer to your star player is pretty much the only guaranteed way to make sure he doesn’t come back!

  42. Whats the point of offering 3years/75m to a guy who got 5/155, more respectful to wish him good luck and move on. Good for Pete getting paid

  44. HOLY SHIT.

    All time leader in HR for your franchise. ROTY.
    Averages 42 HR and 114 RBI per 162. Just turned 31.

    You can’t even try??? That’s fucking nuts.

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