For Mets fans, it’s very painful to recall that they lost one of their favorite players, the superstar Pete Alonso, after the slugger decided to head to the Baltimore Orioles in free agency.
The most painful part is that in New York, they didn’t even make an attempt to offer him a deal after knowing how much money other teams were offering, so they were forced to sign other players just to fill out this offseason.
Dave Portnoy criticizes Steve Cohen for not signing Pete Alonso
There’s no doubt that Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy loves controversy, and whenever he gets the chance to stir it up, he takes it. Now he’s done so in an exchange with the Mets‘ owner, claiming that if he were in charge, he would have kept Alonso on the team.
Nishant Kumar (@nishantkumar07) from Bloomberg posted on February 19 on X: “Mets owner Steve Cohen received $3.4 billion in profits from his hedge fund last year. These are the highest earnings of 2025.” The post included a graphic showing the top earners, with Cohen in first place.
Portnoy then used this to write: “I think I have a solution for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Tax Wall Street people like Steve Cohen who built their fortunes just on Wall Street 90%. That’s not real work to begin with.”
Cohen commented on Portnoy’s post: “”I love that idea, what a genius”.
Portnoy seized the opportunity to reply, posting a photo of Pete Alonso in a Baltimore Orioles uniform: “I’ll tell you this Stevie. 1. I would out trade you if I had your capital to start and #2 if I had your money this guy would 100% still be in a Mets uniform.”
There has been no reply from Cohen to this comment so far; however, the owner could come out looking like the big winner if Bo Bichette, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien, and Luis Robert Jr. perform at an unexpected level and help the team go deep-something many people doubt.
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