Until the ink dries on a Pete Alonso contract elsewhere, there will always be a chance he returns to the Mets. Owner Steve Cohen acknowledged that much during a panel discussion at the team’s Amazin’ Day fanfest event at Citi Field,

Because unlike Soto, who will be wearing a Mets uniform in two weeks when the players start rolling into Port St. Lucie for spring training, there seems to be an increasing chance Alonso -- the popular, homegrown Polar Bear -- is going to be spending the rest of his career elsewhere.