Mets slugging star Pete Alonso has hired the BorasCorp agency to represent him as Alonso heads into his free agent season, The Post has learned.
The Mets tried to lock up Alonso last winter, but word at the time was the sides “weren’t in the same ballpark,” and there have been rumblings lately about talks either starting or about to start.The Mets will surely try again this winter, and new Mets baseball president David Stearns made clear at his opening press conference Monday that their expectation is for Alonso to
But Boras is likely to reference two older contracts for first basemen he represented: the $214 million, nine-year Tigers deal for Prince Fielder and the $180 million, eight-year Yankees deal for Mark Teixeira, while also mentioning those deals are at least a decade old. He may even suggest they are outdated.