The New York Mets have multiple players who call Scott Boras their agent. But according to one New York radio host, there is one to blame for Pete Alonso’s free agency stalemate.
Brandon Nimmo left CAA for Boras before he signed his eight-year, $162 million contract in December 2022 when he became a free agent for the first time. WFAN’s Evan Roberts believes Nimmo got into Alonso’s ear about Boras, prompting him to leave Apex Baseball for Boras in October 2023. With less than two weeks before pitchers and catchers report, Alonso remains unsigned.
“It happened because Pete Alonso has friends — Brandon Nimmo — who are represented by Scott Boras, who tell him, or maybe tell his wife, ‘Hey, you should hire Boras. He’s really good. He just got me an eight-year contract,‘“ Roberts said on his ”Rico Brogna” podcast Wednesday, via The New York Post. “And Pete Alonso says, ‘You’re right, I should.’ So (the fan)’s story is actually a really good one and it’s true because friends impact friends. It is what it is. So if you try to get into the psychology of why Pete Alonso would fire his longtime agent and go to Scott Boras, he’s not splitting the atom here. It makes a lot of sense, and it is actually true that Brandon Nimmo would have kind of influence over that.“
(Nimmo and Alonso have been Mets teammates for six seasons.)
Roberts was responding to a fan theory, and clearly, he bought it. But Boras works for Alonso, which Roberts acknowledged, and he reportedly declined a seven-year, $158 deal two years ago from the Mets under the previous regime and under his previous agency. Alonso could certainly direct Boras to get a deal done. And the Mets have several players who call Boras their agent, including shortstop Francisco Lindor and starting pitcher Sean Manaea, who re-signed this offseason on a three-year, $75 million deal.
“Scott Boras is a great agent. He is. He’s done a great job for a lot of clients but he doesn’t bat 1.000,” Roberts said. “… It didn’t work out because Scott Boras promised Pete Alonso something he couldn’t deliver.”
Alonso has recently declined a three-year, $70 million offer, according to The New York Post’s Joel Sherman, and Mets owner Steve Cohen told fans on Saturday that he wasn’t a fan of the negotiations because of the structures presented to him.
“He didn’t go to Scott Boras to get $158 million,” Sherman said in May 2024 when he reported the extension offer. “He wants to be more like Aaron Judge, the homegrown power hitter.”
Now, Alonso, a 30-year-old slugging first baseman sits unemployed with perhaps the Mets and Toronto Blue Jays the only teams interested in him.
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