Pete Alonso #20 of the New York Mets reacts in the dugout during the ninth inning of the team's game against the Marlins. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post

Five offseason questions on my mind:

1. How committed is David Stearns to “run prevention”? The Mets president of baseball operations used that term no fewer than a half-dozen times in the first 12 minutes of his end-of-season press conference. The term “Chekhov’s gun” refers to the idea that if you show a rifle mounted on the wall in the first act of a show, that gun better be fired by the final act.

Is “run prevention” Stearns’ Chekhov gun, since he so publicly offered it within 24 hours of the regular season ending? In other words, did Stearns tell us that Pete Alonso is not coming back without ever saying those words? Because we

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