Mets decision to let Pete Alonso walk looks worse after recent injury update

Mets decision to let Pete Alonso walk looks worse after recent injury update originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . I don't want to say that the New York Mets ' decision to allow Pete Alonso to walk was the worst idea ever, but I definitely didn't agree with or understand it at the time.

Alonso is the home run leader for this franchise, was seemingly loved by the fan base, and it wasn't like they had to pay him $300-plus million. Steve Cohen has proven over the past few years that he's willing to spend money, so there's really no excuse not to keep Alonso around. Whatever the reason might have been, it's obviously backfired on the Mets.

The Mets decided to bring in Jorge Polanco to replace him, as the middle infielder-turned-first baseman has been a decent pro throughout his career. However, he was far from the player that Alonso was in a few different ways, and he's also 32 years old. It wasn't like the Mets got any younger at the position.

To make matters worse, he's dealing with an Achilles injury, and it doesn't sound like there's a lot of hope about when he'll return. “We have good days and then it flares up,” David Stearns said of Polanco, per SNY . “We need to get the ankle asymptomatic so we know he can go out on a daily basis, run the bases freely, and we’re not there yet.