{"id":626775,"date":"2026-03-16T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:07:24","slug":"pete-alonso-gets-honest-on-slow-bleed-that-ruined-2025-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626775\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso gets honest on ‘slow bleed’ that ruined 2025 Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

With star Pete Alonso now with the Baltimore Orioles after departing the New York Mets<\/a>, there is no doubt some disappointment from his former team’s fanbase after the franchise failed to re-sign the slugger. As Alonso decided to join the Orioles<\/a>, the star went into the 2025 season for the Mets, and what went wrong.<\/p>\n

Alonso had spent seven seasons with New York, and 2025 was an impressive individual year for him as he recorded a .272 batting average to go along with 38 home runs and 126 RBIs. The 31-year-old would say the Mets’ 2025 season was a \u201cslow bleed\u201d<\/a> as missing out on the playoffs by a game was a buildup of negative events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2025 Mets lost the season by \u2014 they missed the playoffs by one game,\u201d Alonso said, according to The Baltimore Sun. \u201cBut there was so many little things that happened consistently, where it\u2019s just a little thing here, a little thing there. \u2026 But then that turned into that kind of slow bleed, slow bleed, slow bleed over time where it shouldn\u2019t come down to the last day because if certain things were to change, or certain plays were made, or certain whatever, then it doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pete Alonso is impacting the young players on the Orioles<\/p>\n

While the Orioles are preparing in spring training<\/a> for the 2026 season, the team is hoping that Alonso could make a difference for the season, as, besides his production, he could bring a presence that makes everybody around him better. One player who has already taken advantage is Gunnar Henderson<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt’s been really cool to pick his brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHim coming from the big market where there\u2019s all the lights on you, just how to kind of deal with all that and then still go out there and play your best,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s been pretty cool to kind of pick his brain on that side of things and just learn the mindsets and just the overall team mindset going into stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opening Day for the Orioles is on Thursday, March 26, against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With star Pete Alonso now with the Baltimore Orioles after departing the New York Mets, there is no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,916,4,61,125,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-626775","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-gunnar-henderson","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-orioles","16":"tag-pete-alonso"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116240192604488807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626775","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=626775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}