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Are the Diamondbacks really going to cherish him or retire his number? If he leaves the Mets, he hasn’t won anything. How are the Mets going to remember him? As someone who jilted them when he had a chance to make some money and fired his agent to hire Scott Boras, and held everybody hostage until he got the most money he possibly could?', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm5pq1ve9000u357pc5gr2vfd@published'}, {'data': {'text': '“I almost feel like Pete Alonso...he needs to take the hometown discount like David Wright said. I know this from personal experience. I wasn’t a highly sought after free agent...but innately, I knew I couldn’t leave New York. 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