The Mets trading aging pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander to the Rangers and Astros, respectively, at the trade deadline was one thing.
New York dealing squarely-in-his-prime first baseman Pete Alonso, however, would be quite another.
Yet according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, an Alonso trade to the Brewers was explored by the Mets in the run-up to the deadline on Aug. 1.
