{"id":589929,"date":"2026-02-24T09:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/589929\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:56:40","slug":"darryl-strawberry-pete-alonso-will-regret-leaving-mets-for-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/589929\/","title":{"rendered":"Darryl Strawberry: Pete Alonso will \u2018regret\u2019 leaving Mets for Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feb 18, 2026; Sarasota, FL, USA; Baltimore Orioles first baseman Pete Alonso (25) poses for media day. Mandatory Credit: Morgan Tencza-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Darryl Strawberry often would refer to his story as a cautionary tale for this generation of New York Mets, but Pete Alonso did not listen.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Mets great, who was the franchise\u2019s all-time home run leader with 252 until Alonso surpassed him last season, admitted that he was \u201cshocked\u201d that the slugging first baseman walked in free agency to the Baltimore Orioles, where he signed a five-year, $155 million pact during the Winter Meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really shocked that Pete would leave New York for Baltimore,\u201d Strawberry told reporters on Monday from spring training (h\/t Laura Albanese, Newsday<\/a>). \u201cPete could have broken all the records and could have been on top of every offensive category for this organization, and then sometimes when you don\u2019t see that and realize how important that is, one day he is going to wake up just like I did and regret you didn\u2019t stick where you are at.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DarrylOct 16, 2024; New York City, New York, USA; Former New York Mets pitch Darryl Strawberry throws out the ceremonial first pitch against the Los Angeles Dodgers before game three of the NLCS for the 2024 MLB playoffs at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Amid a litany of off-field issues, Strawberry left the Mets as a free agent after the 1990 season, signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers in a decision that left him with a \u201cbelly-full of regrets<\/a>.\u201d He had often been a vocal proponent of Alonso being a lifer in Queens, providing the organization with something it has never had: a homegrown, elite offensive product who spent an entire, healthy career with the team.<\/p>\n

The Mets, of course, are not exempt from blame here. After a dramatic offseason of negotiations following the 2024 season, a two-year prove-it deal was agreed upon. Alonso opted out of it following last season\u2019s postseason miss, which saw him admit just moments after they were eliminated from contention that he planned to do so \u2014 a significant mistake, by Strawberry\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n

The Mets never sent an offer to keep him this offseason.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they both could have fought harder in that situation,\u201d Strawberry said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

For more on Darryl Strawberry, Pete Alonso, and the Mets, visit AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 18, 2026; Sarasota, FL, USA; Baltimore Orioles first baseman Pete Alonso (25) poses for media day. Mandatory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,20021,101,4,125,74,17704,185],"class_list":["post-589929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-darryl-strawberry","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-pete-alonso","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116125014237341781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589929","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=589929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}