A creative contract between the Mets and Pete Alonso would be a win-win situation

The New York Mets and Dere Stelt first Baseman Pete Alonso are locked up in a crap fight. Just last week, the METS billionaire owner Steve Cohen said that the negotiations were “exhausting”. The hot stove music becomes quieter and quieter, and there are not many chairs left. Apart from the Blue Jays and the angels, the most logical place for Alonso is back in Queens, where he is 27 things away from becoming the Mets All-Time Home Run Leader (he never met less than 34 in a full season).

As Cohen put it, Alonso’s discussions with the Mets are not going very well. In June 2023, the Mets Alonso made a long-term offer of seven years and $ 158 million. This offer was presented to Alonso’s former agents at Apex Baseball – and rejected and rejected. Since then, Alonso has switched to Uber-agent Scott Boras, who handles the current negotiations.

After the season, MLB trading rumors predicted that Alonso would receive a 5-year deal worth $ 125 million. ESPN was more bullish and guessed six years and $ 159 million. And The athlete Breaked the bank and forecast seven years, $ 189 million. From this letter, the current offer of the METs from various reports is approximately three years and 70 million US dollars. What went wrong? Wayne McDonnell from Forbes.com has made Alonso from Alonso’s great breakdown, but at that time the value and value on ego seem to get back. It feels personally now. After Boras paid 765 million US dollars to Boras’ Free Free Agent Juan Soto in December, it seems that Cohen refuses to be bullied by the ever aggressive agent.

But like this back and forth in front of a typical arbitration process, this situation can be easily remedied – a simple solution. Fortunately for the Mets and Boras, the hard work has already been done by others. In 2022, the Seattle Mariners signed their superstar center player Julio Rodriguez for an incredibly inventive contract that could hold him at the club for 17 years. The specific details of the Rodriguez Pact are not important for this analysis (you can find here) as a roadmap for a potential Alonso deal. If it is considered by the Rodriguez lens, it seems to be extremely feasible.

Alonso wants a long -term deal and think that he would age in his 30s perfectly. The METS are concerned that an aging slugger who cannot switch easily to DH will also have an aging real field player who earns too much money to get a bank or be traded. The signing of Soto and the outbreak of Mark Vientos, who could possibly play the first basis, were the main reasons why the meters of seven years offer up to three. But what if the two sides could find a way to protect each other? In any form of the guarantee that Alonso, if he continues, will remain employed? Enter a version of the Julio Rodriguez contract.

This is how this deal could look like:

• The METs agree to easily increase their current offer from US $ 3/70 million to 3/75 million US dollars -a clean 25 million US dollar a year.
• Alonso would get a fourth year with 25 million US dollars if he takes one of the following information in the first three seasons: (1) 435 games; or (2) 1850 plate appearances; or (3) a top 15 finish in the MVP vote in 3.
• When Alonso ends the top 15 of the MVP vote in the years 2 and 3 in the years 2 and 3 or when he ends the top 10 of the MVP vote in year 3, it automatically surpasses years 4 and 5, with $ 27.5 million per season.
• And if Alonso receives an MVP price in the years 3, 4 or 5, a sixth year with $ 30 million.

In addition, the mets like Rodriguez were able to throw in the following kickers:

• World Series MVP: $ 100K
• LCS MVP: $ 50k
• Silver Slugger Award: $ 50,000
• Gold glove: $ 50k
• All-Star game: $ 25,000

If Alonso stays healthy and/or productive, the worst thing is that this deal is 4/100 million US dollars. If the player stays that he believes that it is 5/$ 130 million. And if he squeezes it, this will be a contract of 6/160 million US dollars, which is only two million dollars less than the deal that Freddie Freeman signed in 2022 at the Los Angeles Dodgers, except here it would not be shifts give.

Scott Boras is probably the best agent in professional sport. Steve Cohen is a multi-deca millionaire with all the resources and researchers available to him. David Stearns knows how to do this type of deal. This shouldn’t be that difficult.

Bring the polar bear back. Show him some respect. Protect your disadvantage, but allow him to have something cruel when there is on your head. This could and should be a win-win situation for everyone.

^{*This article has been updated so as not to run the incentive structure for the CBA.}