On Wednesday, the Baltimore Orioles pulled off arguably the biggest surprise of the MLB offseason when they signed Pete Alonso to a five-year, $155 million contract that has the highest AAV ever for a first baseman.
While there’s a lot of time to figure out the long-term ramifications of Alonso joining the American League, there’s no denying that it’s turned the Orioles into one of the AL’s biggest contenders.
But that doesn’t mean that the deal won’t have ramifications on the Orioles roster, especially when it comes to the future of Ryan Mountcastle, who at one point was viewed as the Orioles’ first baseman of the future.