Pete Alonso Announces Plan for Retirement as $24 Million Mets Decision Nears originally appeared on Athlon Sports. New York Mets star Pete Alonso has been everything a team could ask from a No. 64 draft pick, which is where they selected him in 2016. The 30-year-old is already one of the best Mets players ever, and he has plenty left in the tank.

Darryl Strawberry is still the Mets’ franchise home run leader. How much longer that will remain the case is uncertain, with Pete Alonso on the cusp of breaking the record that Strawberry set over eight seasons (1983-1990) in Queens, but the Mets great isn’t bemoaning his impending displacement from a franchise record.