Pete Alonso’s looming free agency had likely ‘gotten to him’ before iconic Mets homer
NY Post
PHILADELPHIA — Pete Alonso deflects the questions regularly, insisting he is focusing on the small rather than the big.
He says he eyes the next pitch or the next play rather than the next offseason.
Plenty of people around him will acknowledge that such myopia is ideal but fairly impossible.
“The business side will take care of itself, and there’s no doubt in my mind it’s gotten to him this year,” co-hitting coach Eric Chavez said Thursday in the wake of the most significant swing of Alonso’s career. “I don’t care what anybody says. I don’t care what he says. It has to — he’s human.
“The want-to and the desire to go and put up a big year for himself and for the city, sometimes the want-to is just too much. But he stuck it out.”
Alonso endured a solid season for others and a below average year for him at a significant moment in his life, ready to hit free agency after the season.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.
The Lakers’ decision to keep Bronny James away from G League road games has sparked some debate about the level of preferential treatment the franchise is giving to LeBron’s son.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Rangers continue to flex their strength on the road this season.
One of Tom Thibodeau’s stated points of emphasis for the Knicks this season — to increase their volume of 3-point attempts to take advantage of their proficiency from the outside — is starting to come to fruition.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — It’s the best-case scenario for Filip Chytil and the Rangers.