ORLANDO, Fla. — Pete Alonso will be making the short trek from his home in Tampa to the Winter Meetings later this week, but he won't be entertaining the team where his roots had settled.

David Stearns acknowledged that the Mets first baseman would be attending the Major League Baseball's biggest offseason function but would let him explore his options unhindered.

"I think Pete knows us really well. I think we know Pete really well," Stearns said on the event's opening day from a suite inside the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando. "I think he'll take the time here to perhaps meet with organizations he doesn't know quite as well, and I'm sure we'll be in touch."

The market for Alonso seems to be primed to simmer before the calendar turns to the new year, much unlike a season ago when tense ne

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