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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Freeman was 32 years old, and he got 6 years.
Alonso will turn 29 in December.
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As I write that, I see that Alonso is not eligible for Free Agency until after next season. I had assumed based on how everybody was talking he was a free agent after this year. He's arbitration eligible next season.
Might be worth the Mets waiting it out and seeing if he regresses next year or not.
Either he has a career year next year, like Judge did in his arbitration season, and his price goes up immensely, or his batting average and strikeout ratio continues to get worse next year and serves as a gauge of how he's going to age into the future.