Pete Alonso agrees to return to Mets on 2-year, $54 million deal: reports

Pete Alonso isn’t going anywhere.

In a astonishment development, the fan-favorite archetypal baseman reached a two-year, $54 cardinal declaration to instrumentality to the Mets, according to aggregate reports. The archetypal baseman volition beryllium making $30 cardinal adjacent play and owns a $24 cardinal subordinate enactment for the 2026 season.

Alonso’s statement concludes a multiyear saga — that reached its highest erstwhile Steve Cohen expressed his displeasure with their caller negotiations connected Jan. 25 — fraught with speculation astir the slugger’s aboriginal successful Queens. The 30-year-old was reportedly receiving involvement from the Toronto Blue Jays. But, similar galore players successful caller years, helium preferred to not instrumentality their money.

He reportedly turned down a seven-year, $158 cardinal hold connection during the 2023 play — earlier David Stearns’ hiring arsenic the Mets’ president of shot operations — and hired cause Scott Boras to correspond him up of his much-discussed escaped agency.

Originally a second-round draught prime by the Mets successful 2016, Alonso acceptable an MLB rookie grounds with 53 location runs successful 2019, past acceptable a franchise grounds with 131 RBI successful 2022.

Alonso is the lone Met with aggregate 40-homer seasons — a feat helium achieved 3 times. His 226 location runs fertile 3rd successful squad history.

But Alonso’s accumulation dipped successful 2024, erstwhile helium recorded 34 location runs, 88 RBI and a .788 OPS, each of which marked vocation lows, not including the COVID-shortened 2020 season.

The righty-swinging Alonso rebounded successful the postseason, hitting 1 of the biggest location runs successful franchise past with a go-ahead three-run blast successful the ninth inning of the Mets’ Game 3 triumph against the Milwaukee Brewers successful their wild-card series.

Alonso’s marketplace was dilatory to develop, however, with Stearns believed to beryllium reluctant to put heavy successful a archetypal baseman entering his age-30 season

The Mets seemed to beryllium pivoting this period erstwhile they signed outfielder Jesse Winker to a one-year, $8 cardinal declaration and reliever A.J. Minter to a two-year, $22 cardinal deal, but successful the end, determination was capable wealth for Alonso to re-sign, too.

His instrumentality continues a engaged offseason for the Mets, who past period signed superstar slugger Juan Soto to a record-setting 15-year, $765 cardinal contract.