The first order of postseason business — and therefore the first order of the Stearns Era — should be to lock up Pete Alonso long term.
Look, I understand that you can make a case for the Mets to trade Pete Alonso. I do. There are any number of new-age baseball justifications that can be slapped together to back you up if that’s how you feel.
Steve Cohen is going to pay David Stearns upwards of $10 million a year for his vision and version of the Mets, and Stearns has no ties whatsoever to Alonso. Check.But it says here the Mets need to keep Alonso.
and projects to be one for a while, and that still has an appeal — or should have an appeal — even in a game that now sometimes seems overrun by adding machines and “Good Will Hunting” blackboard math. OK. Now, Stearns may be a lifelong Mets fan, which makes this a cute story, but Cohen didn’t hire him because he may have worn a Rico Brogna jersey to Shea Stadium back in the day. He hired him for his baseball acumen. And the fact is, there probably are — and should be — two red warning flags to all of this.
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