ORLANDO — Happy birthday to Pete Alonso, who gets to celebrate turning 31 this week with a trip to Orlando. The first baseman will attend the MLB Winter Meetings in person this week as he explores free agency for the second year in a row.

He will not be meeting with the Mets , however. President of baseball operations David Stearns doesn’t see the need for a formal meeting with a player who has been in the Mets organization since 2016.

“I think Pete knows us really well; I think we know Pete really well,” Stearns said Monday 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.”

To be fair, he does have a point. Alonso knows the Mets and knows how they operate. A fancy pitch deck presentation p

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