Late on Wednesday night, five days before pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie, a flurry of activity involving Alonso and the Mets took over social media. First SNY’s Andy Martino broke the news and then every other insider chimed in with more information.

For Mets fans, it should not really matter how their favorite team got to this point. All that matters is that president of baseball operations David Stearns and owner Steve Cohen got it done, which they did late Wednesday night when they re-signed Pete Alonso to a two-year,