Pete Alonso's Mets future is uncertain with him being a free agent. JASON SZENES/ NY POST

As Pete Alonso was driving to Orlando to meet with the Red Sox and Orioles and take a step toward leaving the Mets, the slugger whose franchise home-run record he broke was hoping for an 11th-hour reversal of fortune.

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“It’s an unfortunate situation for him to be in once again,” Darryl Strawberry told The Post on Monday night at the SBH Health “NY Team of Heros” Gala at Pier Sixty. “But it’s truly going to be up to him what his legacy will be: Will it be New York, or will you walk away for a lot of money? Sometimes the mo

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