Should The Mets Trade Pete Alonso?
I promise I’m not trying to do my best impersonation of Bill Simmons. Did anybody else see him the other day?
Way to go, Bill! Stick another finger in your ass (don’t worry, Bill. Chickster says Music Guy Marc is a switch hitter) and keep whacking it to the trade machine. This guy is truly unbelievable. If you think I’m being unreasonable, click here and tell me if you still feel the same way.
Sorry, I got sidetracked. Weird Trey brain thing.
Oh, yeah, I was about to talk about Pete Alonso.
My point was that I’m not just pulling some fake trade cheese here. I apologize for earlier. Anyway… The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal (don’t click the link. It’s behind a paywall) reported that the Brewers made a strong push to acquire the Mets first baseman at the 2023 MLB Trade Deadline.
Who knows how hard the Brewers came to landing Alonso? Who knows how open the Mets are to dealing him? It should just be noted given the fact that they sold pretty heavy deadline (Verlander & Scherzer). Is this something the Mets should actually consider?
For those that have been reading this site for a long time already know that I’ve been pretty hard on Steve Cohen. He’s acting like a fanboy just throwing endless amounts of cash at a broken foundation. The Mets have no foundation. They have no standard of winning. They also hired an idiot that inherited Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani and never won a single playoff game with the Angels.
I would have tanked that thing a long time ago. They made a mistake not trading Jacob deGrom and starting on that path years ago. If the Mets don’t fix their foundation, they’re never going to win anything.
Trading Alonso is a good way to do that. Alonso, 28, is in the midst of his prime and you could probably get a pretty sizeable return for him. The former Florida product also hits free agency in 2025. Trading him for young talent is a better alternative than losing him for nothing. The Mets are already paying a ton of money for players on and off the roster. If the Mets don’t want to pay Alonso, maybe that’s the path you take.
I just talked about how I would have tanked the team had I gotten the Mets job years ago when Cohen took over. With that in mind, Alonso is probably the only guy on the roster I wouldn’t trade. He plays basically every single day and it’s just so hard to find guys that hit 40 bombs and drive in over 100 runs. Aircraft carrier bats just change a lineup. It’s not a secret why the crosstown Yankees are a totally different team when Aaron Judge is in the lineup.
That’s the kind of guy that you trade and instantly regret it. You have to have a guy in your lineup that hits the ball out of the ballpark at an elite level. You can’t be a great team in baseball without one. All the clutch champions have that element. If it’s not Alonso, I have no idea who the Mets find to be that guy when it’s time to win.
The Mets should rebuild… but it should also be around Alonso. There is a way to do it. It’s just a matter of if Mr. Cohen is smart enough to call me.
