Whether or not Alonso will return to the Mets ( who seem to be making contingency plans) is to be seen, but Cohen used the opportunity to vent about what he deemed "an exhausting conversation and negotiation" with Alonso and agent Scott Boras.

Steve Cohen can afford to pay Pete Alonso whatever he wants. The man ranked No. 162 on Bloomberg's Billionaires index has already committed to paying Juan Soto

This was a recurring theme throughout SNY broadcaster Gary Cohen’s conversation with the Mets’ leadership. Later, after Stearns repeated how much the team loves Alonso, their homegrown, free agent first baseman, Stearns expressed that they “also feel really good about the young players that are coming through (the) system.”