Don’t expect any hometown discount — or any other type of discount — for the Mets when it comes to Pete Alonso. Alonso is a year away from hitting free agency, and though some point to deals signed by other first basemen in recent years — whether it’s Freddie Freeman (six years, $162 million) or Paul Goldschmidt (five years, $130 million) — as signs Alonso shouldn’t expect to break the bank, his new agent, Scott Boras, knows he’s seen some of his own clients — also first basemen — do much better. “We all work in different markets, and I got Mark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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