
Mets’ Pete Alonso doesn’t ‘want to get traded’ before deadline as free agency looms
NY Post
ARLINGTON, Texas — The way the Mets are trending — arising from the cellar to possibly avoid becoming sellers and sitting in playoff position at the All-Star break — the chances have grown that Pete Alonso will remain in Queens at least through the end of the season.
This development has been welcome to Alonso.
The Mets first baseman has been resolute throughout this season and in past seasons in saying that he enjoys being a Met.
If the Mets, who were 11 games under .500 as recently as June 2, continued to lose, the free agent to-be might have been one of the prizes on the trade market.
The strong run into contention might mean that the Polar Bear finishes the season with the only team he has known.
“I’m super happy to be a Met, super proud to be a Met,” Alonso said from Globe Life Field on Monday before his first-round exit in the Home Run Derby. “It’s just been awesome.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












