New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso told reporters this week that he believes Major League Baseball manipulates the league's baseballs based on the upcoming free-agent class to keep contracts lower, however, Mets general manager Zack Scott is not a proponent of that theory.
"I didn't know Pete was a conspiracy theorist," Scott said as he laughed Friday, per Jake Seiner of the Associated Press.
He added: "The way teams value and evaluate performance is relative to levels, so we're not going to be fooled by offense is way up or way down. We're going to look at players about relative to how the league is playing.