Steve Cohen Presser: 'Strong possibility we're moving on from Pete Alonso'
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New York Mets owner Steve Cohen gets 'brutally honest' on Pete Alonso: 'I don't like the negotiations'.
Free agent first baseman Pete Alonso remains unsigned less than a week from February, and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen got "brutally honest" during an event Saturday about winter negotiations with the team's longtime slugger.
With fans chanting "we want Pete" during Cohen's panel at Citi FIeld with president David Stearns and manager Carlos Mendoza, the Mets owner took the mic and explained his frustrations with efforts to bring Alonso back.
"Personally, this has been an exhausting conversation and negotiation," Cohen said. "(Juan) Soto was tough, this is worse."
"We've made a significant offer to Pete," Cohen said. "I don't like the structures that are being presented back to us. I think it's highly asymmetrical against us and I feel strongly about it."
"I will never say no, there's always the possibility. But the reality is we're moving forward and we continue to bring in players," Cohen said Saturday. "As we continue to bring in players, the reality is it becomes harder to fit Pete into what is a very expensive group of players."
"I don't like the negotiations. I don't like what's been presented to us and maybe that changes - and certainly I'll always stay flexible - but if it stays this way, I think we're going to have to get used to the fact that we may have to move forward with the existing players that we have."
With all that being said this may be a big opportunity for the Toronto Blue Jays to sweep in and grab Pete Alonso.
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