{"id":62974,"date":"2023-10-06T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=62974"},"modified":"2023-10-06T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T04:56:25","slug":"wild-day-for-the-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/10\/06\/wild-day-for-the-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Day For The Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets<\/a> began their offseason after last Sunday’s game ended, and it’s been a wild couple of days. Manager Buck Showalter said before the game that he was not returning for 2024. A decision <\/span>that didn’t make Pete Alonso happy<\/span><\/a>. Soon after the game ended, owner Steve Cohen expressed that Showalter was fired by him and David Stearns, the new President of Baseball Operations. The following day, the Mets officially introduced Stearns. On Tuesday, reports surfaced from ESPN’s Jesse Rogers that Alonso\u00a0<\/span>was open to going\u00a0<\/span><\/a>to the Chicago Cubs. However, some within the Mets don’t believe that to be true<\/a>. On Wednesday evening, Mike Puma of the New York Post reported that Showalter and General Manager Billy Eppler <\/span>clashed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0over\u00a0<\/span>Daniel Vogelbach’s<\/span><\/a>\u00a0playing time. So, what would Thursday bring? As it turns out, it was a lot to unpack.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Wild Day For The Mets<\/span><\/h2>\r\n

Pete Alonso Hires Agent Mets Are Familiar With<\/span><\/h3>\r\n

Mets fans woke up Thursday morning and raised an eyebrow to the latest page of the\u00a0<\/span>Pete Alonso<\/span><\/a>\u00a0free agency book. A familiar name to the Mets, both for good and bad reasons, entered the picture. Per Jon Heyman of the New York Post, it was revealed that Alonso had hired Scott Boras as his agent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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ICYMI, Mets star Pete Alonso, who has the 3rd most HRs through 5 seasons with 192 ( behind Ralph Kiner\u2019s 215 and Albert Pujols\u2019 201, despite losing 102 games in the pandemic), hires BorasCorp as his free agent year approaches (for story, click the pic)
https:\/\/t.co\/sKuEBXmtKR<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) October 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n