MLB insiders address theory about Mets’ Pete Alonso, Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

On Wednesday, former New York Mets common supervisor and present MLB analyst Steve Phillips predicted on SiriusXM’s MLB Community Radio (h/t Jimmy Hascup of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) that Pete Alonso wouldn’t decide out after the primary yr of his new two-year, $54 million deal. Thus, the Mets will unlikely signal Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in free company this fall.

A number of reporters and insiders have since poured chilly water over Phillips’ concept. 

“If [Mets owner Steve Cohen] does need Guerrero to group up with [All-Star outfielder Juan Soto] for the following 12 to fifteen years, the Mets may have a gap to do it,” The Athletic’s Jim Bowden defined on Wednesday. “Alonso has an opt-out in his contract after this yr, however even when he declines to train it, the Mets might DH him for 2026 and have Alonso hit behind Francisco Lindor, Soto and Guerrero, giving them a fearsome foursome within the lineup for one yr.” 

Whereas Cohen acknowledged this week, months after he signed Soto to a 15-year, $765M contract that might reportedly exceed $800M, that free company is “dearer than you possibly can think about,” Cohen was certain so as to add he has “the power to spend” to “finance” what he hopes might be a championship squad. On Wednesday, New York Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch of MLB.com stated he would not “sense the Yankees could be all that obsessed with participating in one other bidding battle” with Cohen relating to Guerrero’s providers after the Bronx Bombers misplaced Soto to the Mets this offseason. 

In the meantime, nationwide MLB reporter Mark Feinsand of the league’s web site famous that Guerrero is seen as a “generational expertise.” 

“Vladdy is that sort of hitter,” Feinsand added, “and simply as we noticed with Soto this winter, stud free brokers on the age of 26 don’t come round fairly often. If the Mets need him, I discover it laborious to imagine that they are going to be outbid.” 

After all, loads can occur from spring coaching by the July 31 commerce deadline and into October, impacting how Cohen and Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns strategy subsequent offseason. With that stated, ESPN’s Buster Olney reported earlier this week that the Mets have already “talked internally” about buying Guerrero. 

There is not any motive to imagine that Alonso’s standing after the World Sequence will influence whether or not the Mets take part within the Guerrero sweepstakes in November.