The Boston Red Sox are looking to add some slug in free agency.
One name that has come up over and over again is the right-handed power bat from the New York Mets, Pete Alonso.
And if they get him?
The Green Monster better look out.
"Alonso’s leadership, power and willingness to play every day would rub off on all the young Red Sox players and he’d take the pressure off rising star Roman Anthony," The Athletic's Jim Bowden wrote this week. "The Red Sox might need to refurbish the Green Monster with all the dings Alonso would put in it over the next several years."
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That's a fun way of looking at it, for sure.
Alonso is one of baseball's top home run hitters, and he's shown that off as this generation's most dominant Home Run Derby competitor.
The Mets aren't a sure thing to bring Alonso back, despite him being the franchise's all-time leader in home runs. New York has been suggested as potentially looking for someone to provide better defense and secondary skills than the simple slugging that Alonso will surely be paid plenty to bring to whichever team opts to sign him.
The Red Sox should have opportunity to be seized either at first base or DH, depending on the health of Triston Casas and what Boston does with its surplus of outfielders.
Alonso is a good enough player that if you can sign him, you do that and then figure out the rest later -- including figuring out how much damage Alonso might give to the Green Monster. It may not be as much as you'd think, because he'll hit a bunch of baseballs right over it.
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