Just when you were worried the Winter Meetings were going to peter out a bit after the Phillies re-signed Kyle Schwarber and the Dodgers snatched up Edwin Díaz … the Orioles made perhaps the most stunning move of the offseason so far.

The O’s, eager for a right-handed power bat, agreed to a five-year, $155 million deal (per a source) with the Mets’ all-time leading home run hitter, ending his time in Flushing and showing just how urgently the Orioles are trying to get the bad taste of this past season out of their collective mouths.

Here are five key takeaways from Pete Alonso heading to Baltimore.

1. This era of Mets baseball is officially over

Remember last offseason, when the last time we’d seen Alonso was him hitting the most clutch homer of his career against the Brewers i

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