MLB Free Agency News: 1 Big Spending Team Not In on Guerrero Jr.

For his outlandish $500 million dollar contract demands in free agency next winter, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will not have one big spending team to count on to push up the price. According to insider Jon Heyman in The New York Post, the NY Mets will likely not be pursuing the Toronto Blue Jays first baseman.

https://t.co/n6XpzVz3bT. MLB Friday notes: One rival GM thinks Vlad Jr. is worth every penny of the $500M (non deferred) request but here’s why the Mets aren’t the likely landing spot
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) March 14, 2025

The New York Mets finally decided to bring back their own slugging first sacker, Pete Alonso, after a winter of cantankerous free agent negotiations with the player and his agent Scott Boras. After turning down a 7-year, $158M offer from the Mets before the 2024 season, Boras and Alonso had to settle on a two-year, $54 million deal with an opt-out after this season.

But even if Alonso opts out, don't expect the Mets to ditch him and pursue a $500+ negotiation with Guerrero Jr. Heyman had already revealed that that's the hard-and-fast number that the Jays franchise player wants.

Heyman canvassed people in the know around the game, and the consensus is that Mets owner Steve Cohen and his president of baseball operations David Stearns will not be interested in handing out that kind of money to sign Guerrero on a long-term contract.

After allocating $765 million to superstar Juan Soto for the next decade and a half, it's thought that the Mets won't have the flexibility for any more insane record-breaking deals in the near future.

And besides, with 27 home runs this season, Alonso will become the Mets' all-time HR King, and it would be very difficult to let the already extremely popular player walk at that point.