The Baltimore Orioles made one of the biggest splashes in this current MLB offseason when they signed slugger Pete Alonso to a five-year, $155 million deal.
While the Orioles have made several impactful moves this winter, acquiring one of baseball’s premier power hitters was massive for the roster, given that Alonso has hit at least 34 home runs in every single full season of his MLB career to this point, and the Orioles didn’t have a hitter produce more than 17 home runs in 2025.
Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias was asked about signing Alonso during his December 11 appearance on the Orioles Hot Stove Show and said, “We had quite a nice presentation for him about the Orioles, living in Baltimore, the types of players that we have on the team, the great facilities that we have… So I think he was really appealed by all of that.
“I think that Pete has been one of the most productive, steady and consistent middle of the lineup sluggers. Plays every game, and just the consistency and volume of the production that he brings has been elite around baseball, and so we’re gonna get a lot of production around him. But I also expect that the way he’s going to interact with the rest of the batting lineup is going to hopefully help raise the performances of the young guys around him, Elias added.