It was appropriate, in an unfortunate way, that Pete Alonso was on hand to witness the official end of this most woeful Mets season.
The franchise’s all-time home run leader departed via free agency last winter as part of a dramatic roster overhaul undertaken by Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns. But on Monday, the Polar Bear was back at Citi Field with the Baltimore Orioles, who, with a 2-1 win, hammered the final statistical nail in his old team’s coffin.
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Retaining Alonso on its own would not have made this pretender a contender. The 2026 Mets were sunk by a cornucopia of insufficiencies and misfortunes on both…
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