New York Mets all-time franchise home run leader Pete Alonso's time in Queens appears likely to be at an end. Though players eligible for free agency are not officially granted their freedom until the day after the World Series ends — and cannot sign with another team for five days after that — the 30-year-old Mets' 2016 second-round draft pick wasted no time in publicly stating his intention to opt out of his current contract with New York and hit the open market.

But this offseason will be the second in a row that Alonso has tested free agency, and last time around it didn't go quite the way he or his agent Scott Boras may have wanted.

Alonso, according to media reports, had previously turned up his nose at a seven-year, $158 million extension offer from the Mets and also snubb

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