New York Mets owner Steve Cohen reveals the pivotal moment that helped secure Pete Alonso’s $54 million deal, ensuring the slugger’s return to Queens. Negotiations between Pete Alonso and the New York Mets seemed to be at a standstill in MLB.

On Thursday, after Mike Puma of The New York Post reported that Cohen along with Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns flew to Tampa on Tuesday to meet with Alonso at a social club where Alonso belongs, his colleague Jon Heyman revealed what was said during that meeting.

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen made his feelings clear to Pete Alonso when both sides met in Tampa and ultimately agreed on a new contract. Jon Heyman of the