He was paid $7.5 million in 2020 (an amount that would end up prorated due to the shortened season) with a player option ... risingapple.com as Happy fifth birthday to the cringiest NY Mets ...

So Pete Alonso is back with the Mets and everyone is happy ... but second tier players like Alonso find their markets limited as so many of baseball’s analytically-inclined GMs today are ...

Count New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza ... Gone, but Mendoza was happy to hear the news. “You know, obviously he was a huge player for us last year, not only on the field but off the field ...