Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for the Boston Red Sox, that could mean watching New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso remain in the National League.

“Alonso’s willingness to play designated hitter offers the sorts of avenues a first-base-only mindset wouldn’t,” ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. “He could stay with the Mets, move up to Boston, bring Cincinnati the big bat it desperately needs or, if Ryan Mountcastle is traded or nontendered, split the first-base and DH jobs in Baltimore with rookie Samuel Basallo , who will also spend plenty of time at catcher.”

The Big Three

Passan also notes Alonso is one of three big-time bats on the open market who are represented by uber agent Scott Boras. The others are Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman and New York Ya

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