The pros and cons of Mets re-signing Pete Alonso in fascinating free agency that could take awhile

Let maine construe what Steve Cohen and David Stearns were saying this twelvemonth successful regards to Pete Alonso.

They knew a Scott Boras customer hardly ever signs earlier allowing nan free marketplace to find his worth and surely was not going to motion for wherever nan Mets had him valued. So why spell done nan futile and fruitless workout of nationalist posturing?

I deliberation nan scheme was for Cohen and Stearns to do thing but propulsion nationalist emotion letters astatine Alonso — we adore him, a existent Met, want to support him, etc. — while knowing Alonso would get to free agency. And past spot if Alonso/Boras really tin get supra nan existent first-base marketplace viewpoint. If Alonso tin get to nan apical of nan market, Cohen tin apical nan connection if he wants. These are not nan Wilpon Mets immoderate more.

Now that we are conscionable a fewer days distant from this marketplace opening, why not a pro/con connected Alonso’s free agency to group it up: