WFAN and SNY host Sal Licata dropped considerably of a bombshell whereas talking about New York Mets All-Star first baseman Pete Alonso throughout Wednesday’s version of the WFAN “Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata” program.
“I’m not 100% sure that Alonso is all about being a lifelong Met,” Licata mentioned about what he’d heard from business sources, per Manuel Gómez of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. “I feel it’s very potential that he could want, the 2 groups that I’ve heard…”
Licata, who works for the tv dwelling of the Mets (SNY), later confirmed these golf equipment are the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees.
As lately as Tuesday, Will Sammon and Tim Britton of The Athletic reported {that a} “league supply” mentioned that “there’s little expectation that there will probably be substantive negotiations a few contract extension earlier than Alonso hits free company” after the upcoming season. The favored 29-year-old employed Scott Boras as his new agent this previous fall and was closely linked with the Cubs shortly after the 2023 common season ended.
David Stearns formally turned Mets president of baseball operations in early October and has repeatedly mentioned he doesn’t “anticipate” buying and selling Alonso this winter. That, after all, means little because it pertains to the “Polar Bear” probably signing with both the Cubs or Yankees this coming fall.
Licata generated headlines and controversy when he mentioned in August that “Alonso was made obtainable” to different groups earlier than this previous summer season’s commerce deadline partly as a result of the Mets wanted “a major change in that clubhouse and their tradition.” Alonso later talked about he’d “by no means seen” and did not know “the one that mentioned that,” and Licata clarified in September that “no person ever mentioned Pete was the issue” for a 2023 Mets facet that completed with a 75-87 file.
For a bit printed Tuesday morning, MLB insider Joel Sherman of the New York Publish famous he can envision the Mets “at the very least listening” to commerce affords from different golf equipment for Alonso’s companies in July. For no matter causes, in-the-know people proceed to take a position that Alonso is not all-in on remaining with the one MLB dwelling he is recognized since 2019 past the 2024 season.
