Hispano Mark winds offers to play first base in 2025 with Mets

New York Mets’ Hispanic, Mark winds, offered this Saturday during the team’s fans festival that is willing to sacrifice and move to first base for what the team needs for the 2025 major leagues season. The first base currently represents a headache for the Mets, which still does not reach an agreement with their team star, Pete Alonso. That’s why Winds put to order to move from the third base to the initial because what he wants is to conquer a championshipwhich would be the first of the currency since 1986. “I love playing in the prelude. But right now, my main approach is to see what I can do to get to a world series and win a championship. That’s all I want, ”said the player during a meeting with the press. Even, Winds said closely the negotiation of Mets with Alonsowaiting for them to reach an agreement after several weeks of negotiation. “It is difficult not to pay attention to it when you see it on all platforms,” ​​said winds on the process of Alonso and the team, who also said that he has been working on the initial during the recess of the season. “I have been working a lot in that in recent weeks. It has been fun to work to collect balls and things like that, ”he detailed winds about his work routine in the first base. Winds, who is from Dominican father and Nicaraguan mother, received the opportunity to be the second -handed antealist of the Mets in the last season, for whom responded by batting for average of 266, with 22 doubles, 27 homers and 71 races in 111 games. His performance was such that It was placed as a third in the offensive order in the postseason, a stage in which it hit for .327, with five windows and 14 races producedbut with everything and the change of position it faces, winds does not lose the approach and remains excited for its fourth season in the big leagues. “One tries to focus on being ready to return. I am excited, ”said winds, who has played in 84 games in the initial at the highest level of the MLB. In addition to winds, the Mets are also open to try gardener Jesse Winker and the interior box player Brett Bitch, as long as the return of Alonso is not confirmed. With winds profile to start the year in the first pad, The METS will have Bitch and the Dominican Ronny Mauricio as the options to dispute ownership in the third base. Continue reading: (Tagstotranslate) New York Mets

Jesse Winker willing to play first base for the Mets

One of the movements of the New York Mets in free agency was the hiring of Jesse Winker for one year and $7.5 million dollars. After playing 44 regular season games in 2024 with the Queens franchise and being a key player in the playoffs. Winker recently had a small press conference via Zoom in which he talked about what’s coming up in the season with the Mets. And he affirmed his commitment to the New York organization by 2025. “After the year ended, I made it pretty clear that I wanted to stay.”Winker explained. “At the beginning of the offseason, the free agency process… I feel like there are different phases, right? And I would say that after Christmas it started to gain momentum and the conversations started to get more serious,” the player commented on his signing process with the Mets since free agency. Jesse Winker stays with Mets.Credit: Rick Scuteri | AP As for Winker’s role with the Mets this season, it is still not entirely clear. Well, with the arrival of Juan Soto for right field and the permanence of Brandon Nimmo for left field, Winker’s playing time could be reduced in 2025. However, the left-hander has made it clear that he is willing to help the team in any role that his manager Carlos Mendoza asks of him. “I definitely feel comfortable. “As I said, I will be ready for whatever they ask of me.”he emphasized. Even Winker is open to covering first base for the Mets in the absence of this position. Well, Pete Alonso, starting first baseman in recent seasons, remains a free agent without reaching an agreement with the organization. “I definitely felt more comfortable at first base two years ago. Until then I hadn’t really played there, but it was definitely a position where I felt like ‘man, maybe I should have been playing this a long time ago.’ At least have it as a tool in your bag. So yeah, I definitely feel comfortable there.”Jesse explained. Winker has never played a regular season game at first base.but saw some time there during a minor league rehab assignment in 2023 while with the Milwaukee Brewers. The player himself He stated that last season there were some discussions with the team staff about him playing first base.. And recently Andy Martino reported that if the Mets did not reach an agreement with Pete Alonso they would look for an internal solution for the first baseman. This could be move Mark Vientos from third to first base and rotate with Ronny Mauricio, Brett Baty and Luisangel at third base. Although a Winker at first could open a better range of options for the team. Keep reading:Mets sign left-hander AJ Minter for two years, $22 millionMLB figure comes out in defense of Pete Alonso: “They don’t value him enough”Pete Alonso presents contract proposal to New York Mets

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