First Honkman Pete Alonso became the new Home Run King of the New York Mets when on Tuesday evening career Homers 253 and 254 hit the 13-5 victory of the club over the Atlanta Braves in Citi Field.
After the victory, the 30-year-old Slugger sent a clear message to METS owner Steve Cohen and team resident of baseball operations David Stearns with regard to the future.
“I have a goal to play baseball until I have my age of 40, and for me I will work hard and do that,” said Alonso, as divided by Abbey Mastrco From the New York Daily News. “The business side – Steve and David, they have to get through.”
Alonso accepted a two -year -old deal to return to the Mets last February, but will probably unsubscribe from that contract after the season. According to ESPN statistics, The “Polar Bear” started on Wednesday with the 2025 Mets among qualified players with a .267 battle average, 28 home runs (tied up with Juan Soto) and a .880 Ops. At the time, Alonso wax third In all MLB with 96 RBI during the season.
“I love the city of New York,” said Alonso after making Mets History, per John Stranigan from Sny. “I love the fan base. It has been great. The company is the business side if they choose to go in a different direction. But for me it has been an absolute treat and pleasure here – this group is really special. That was one of the biggest reasons why I came back … We just have an incredible group that has a great goal here, not here.”
Mets fans loudly Made it clear in the winter that they want to continue to mention Alonso one of them after the current season. He was developed by the organization and only played for the Mets since he made his MLB debut in 2019.
“I grew up in this organization, so to speak,” Alonso added during his comments. “They believed in me as a 21-year-old kid, and they are consistently believed in me. Hopefully they continu to believe in me-but for right now, I’m just focused on our group effort day-to-day, so-group is really keeped teepy teepy to goeped tegaited teeped teepy to goeped tagy tagy tagy tag. With This Group – We Have Talent, We Have Resiliency.
Anthony McCarron from Sny and Tyler Kepner From the athletics are one of those who said after Tuesday’s game that the club should do with its paying customers and make Alonso “a preliminary met”. For now, the Mets will focus on trying one playoff berth After they went from 45-24 to 63-55 before Tuesday’s victory.
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