“You should take your time”: Francisco Lindor on the return of Pete Alonso to the Mets

There is less than two months left for the start of the regular season of the big leagues and so far Pete Alonso and the New York Mets still do not reach an agreement so that the initialist returns to the New York team for 2025 from the free agency.

Alonso and the Mets seem to go in different directions. And the player rejected in 2023 an extension for seven years and $ 158 millionafter trying a few weeks in the free agency and not reaching any port, he returned to the conversations with the Queens team.

At that point Alonso’s agent was the one offered the METS to give the player a contract for $ 90 million and three seasons. But the team declined and offered $ 70 million for the same amount of years; proposal that was also rejected by the player.

At this point the negotiations between the Mets and Alonso They seem to be increasingly moving. Recently in an interview for SNY, one of the team’s faces was asked, Francisco Lindor, about the situation with his partner.

Lindor explained that the player should be patient to make the best decision. “I think your time should take. I think I should make the best decision to yourself and not feel hurried, and I’m sure it will be ”explained the Campocorto de los Mets.

Lindor and Alonso share costumes in New York for four seasons. At that time the Puerto Rican has taken the baton as a team captainso their words have weight in the players and hopes to help make Queens to the first base.

Alonso had a good 2024, although something low compared to previous seasonsin total the initialist connected 34 home runs, 88 driven and 146 hits for an average .240.

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