Pete Alonso's move to the Baltimore Orioles on a five-year, $155 million deal—reported earlier this week—marks another key departure for the New York Mets, who are overhauling their roster amid recent playoff misses and the losses of Edwin Díaz to the Dodgers and Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers.
As detailed in prior coverage, Pete Alonso, the Mets' all-time home run leader after passing Darryl Strawberry in 2025, has left for Baltimore without a formal offer from New York.
This follows closer Edwin Díaz's three-year pact with the Dodgers and outfielder Brandon Nimmo's trade to the Texas Rangers for Marcus Semien. The trio, alongside Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, formed the Mets' nucleus since 2019 but delivered inconsistent results: missing playoffs in 2019 and 2020, 85 losses in 2021, a 2022 Wild Card exit, a 2023 sell-off, a near-World Series run in 2024, and another miss in 2025 despite high spending.
Mets president David Stearns called Alonso 'a great Met' but stressed necessary changes, especially in defense where Alonso and Nimmo underperformed. 'Once we reflected on our team, we knew we weren’t just running it back,' Stearns said of the Nimmo trade. The 2026 Mets will look very different, aiming to break a cycle of underachievement with just one playoff win since 2015 outside their 2024 surge.