To hear New York Mets owner Steve Cohen tell it, he is not close to re-signing free agent first baseman Pete Alonso for one reason. “And a lot of it is, I don’t like the structures that he presented to us. I think it’s highly asymmetric against us, and I feel strongly about this,” Cohen told fans (and reporters) at Amazin Day on Saturday.

Reports had surfaced in mid-January that Alonso had offered the Mets a three-year deal with opt-outs, with the Mets being the only team to receive that contract structure. Likewise, Sammon and Ken Rosenthal had reported that Alonso's market was heating up, with the Blue Jays and an unidentified third team joining the Mets in contract talks.