{"id":687039,"date":"2026-04-30T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:30:26","slug":"pete-alonso-no-mets-ill-will-after-unceremonious-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687039\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Alonso: No Mets ill will after unceremonious split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 The stick of dynamite that was affixed to the Mets core this winter did not blindside Pete Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles were among the first teams to reach out during his free agency, and momentum began building toward a long-awaited megadeal in a spot Alonso called \u201ca match made in heaven.\u201d The Mets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/22\/sports\/pete-alonso-reveals-when-he-knew-mets-return-wasnt-in-the-cards-no-regrets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had shown little interest<\/a> (and never ended up extending an offer), a fact that became relevant when Brandon Nimmo reached out to Alonso in November.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo was in limbo, David Stearns telling the lifelong Met that a trade with the Rangers would be completed if Nimmo waived his no-trade clause. Seeking advice, Nimmo called a longtime friend and another longtime face of the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, Nimmo told Alonso, \u201cI really want to be teammates with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 The stick of dynamite that was affixed to the Mets core this winter did not blindside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[47,5,8057,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,74,185,428],"class_list":["post-687039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-exclusive","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-pete-alonso","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116496028373043544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687039","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=687039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}