It’s official; Alonso is back in Queens. The New York Mets have played hardball with Scott Boras, did the bait and switch by “entertaining other options,” then pulled a 180 and snagged their hometown slugger. Preliminary reporting has the Pete Alonso deal set at two years for $54 million, not the payday Boras was hoping for.

Slugging first baseman Pete Alonso agreed to a two-year, $54 million with New York Mets that includes an opt-out after the first year, finally re-signing with the team that drafted him after a drawn-out winter of negotiations,