New York Mets owner Steve Cohen, top baseball operations executive David Stearns, and manager Carlos Mendoza held a forum during the team's fan fest event on Saturday. Predictably, the group was met with "We want Pete" chants from onlookers hoping to persuade the braintrust into entering a new agreement with longtime first baseman and current free agent Pete Alonso.

Pete Alonso loomed over the New York Mets’ Amazin’ Day at Citi Field on Saturday without attending the event. Just before Mets owner Steve Cohen answered a question about where things stand with Alonso,

It appears Pete Alonso is going, going, gone. The first Amazin' Day fan festival at Citi Field did not bring with it a dramatic resolution to Alonso's free-agent saga — but did seem to confirm the New York Mets' most popular and prolific power hitter is likely to sign elsewhere as Major League Baseball spring training nears.

A breakup between the New York Mets and free agent first baseman Pete Alonso seems to be all but certain. On Friday, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported