Alonso will make $30 million in 2025 and can opt out after this season
The Mets and Pete Alonso have agreed on a two-year deal to see the slugging first baseman return to the club. The deal, reportedly worth $54 million according to Jeff Passan of ESPN, will see Alonso make $30 million in 2025 and can opt out after the season. The contract is pending a physical.
With just a week until pitchers and catchers report for spring training, this move bolsters the Mets lineup for 2025 without wasting resources or years on what many believe will be Alonso’s decline.
Alonso, who broke camp with the club in 2019, hit 53 home runs as a rookie and has notched 226 thus far, third best all time for the Mets. He is a career .249/.339/.514 hitter and has manned first base for 846 of the 870 games the Mets have played since he was called up.
Alonso turned down a seven-year, $158 million extension in 2023 after hiring Scott Boras and intending to test the free agent market. While the deal agreed to tonight is for more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes, it does feel significantly less than even the most cost-minded Mets fans thought would be a fair deal for Alonso when the offseason began. But a combination of fewer teams looking for first baseman and the Mets’ ability to hold their line made the deal take a long time to emerge, and did so at a price – and more importantly a year total – that feels very much like Alonso succumbing to what the Mets were offering, rather than what he was hoping to get.
But all of that is now behind us, and Alonso can take his place batting behind Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto. With Darryl Strawberry’s franchise home run record just 26 dingers away, Alonso will rightly be celebrated often this season at Citi Field.
Welcome home, Pete.