Mets’ Pete Alonso doesn’t ‘want to get traded’ before deadline as free agency looms
NY Post
ARLINGTON, Texas — The way the Mets are trending — arising from the cellar to possibly avoid becoming sellers and sitting in playoff position at the All-Star break — the chances have grown that Pete Alonso will remain in Queens at least through the end of the season.
This development has been welcome to Alonso.
The Mets first baseman has been resolute throughout this season and in past seasons in saying that he enjoys being a Met.
If the Mets, who were 11 games under .500 as recently as June 2, continued to lose, the free agent to-be might have been one of the prizes on the trade market.
The strong run into contention might mean that the Polar Bear finishes the season with the only team he has known.
“I’m super happy to be a Met, super proud to be a Met,” Alonso said from Globe Life Field on Monday before his first-round exit in the Home Run Derby. “It’s just been awesome.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.