New York Mets owner Steve Cohen reveals the pivotal moment that helped secure Pete Alonso’s $54 million deal, ensuring the slugger’s return to Queens. Negotiations between Pete Alonso and the New York Mets seemed to be at a standstill in MLB.

In the end, it was an old-fashioned sit-down between the principles that helped finish the deal that brought Pete Alonso back to the Mets. On Tuesday, team owner Steve Cohen flew to Tampa — where Alonso resides — and along with president of baseball operations David Stearns,