{"id":477283,"date":"2025-12-14T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/477283\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:53:11","slug":"orioles-blew-alonso-away-ahead-of-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/477283\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles \u2018blew Alonso away\u2019 ahead of signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">New Orioles 1B Pete Alonso was \u201cintroduced by his new team at Camden Yards\u201d on Friday afternoon, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/10\/alonso-signing-marks-new-era-for-orioles-under-rubenstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/10\/alonso-signing-marks-new-era-for-orioles-under-rubenstein\/\">signing a five-year, $155M contract<\/a> during the Winter Meetings. The Orioles wanted Alonso \u201cbadly\u201d during the free agent negotiations, and the team \u201cblew Alonso away\u201d with its presentation in Orlando. Alonso \u201cappreciates how much they appreciate him.\u201d Orioles owner David Rubenstein \u201ceven went so far as to compare the acquisition of Alonso to the trade for [Baseball HOFer] Frank Robinson\u201d in 1965. The Mets never made Alonso a formal contract offer, \u201cgrowing uncomfortable with his market.\u201d Alonso said, \u201cYou kind of have some time to really reflect. Then as the offseason progressed and realistically, as we got further along, this partnership for me, it was just head and shoulders above everybody else.\u201d He added, \u201cThis park, this city, this team, this organization &#8212; everything combined, everything just clicked\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-orioles-pete-alonso-contract-free-agency-david-stearns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/12\/mets-orioles-pete-alonso-contract-free-agency-david-stearns\/\">N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 12\/12<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orioles 1B Pete Alonso was \u201cintroduced by his new team at Camden Yards\u201d on Friday afternoon, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,6035,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-477283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-deals","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115719202738672120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}