Talks between the Toronto Blue Jays and free agent Pete Alonso have reportedly thawed, potentially opening the door for Alonso to return to the New York Mets.

Because unlike Soto, who will be wearing a Mets uniform when the players start rolling into Port St. Lucie in a few weeks for spring training, there seems to be an increasing chance that Alonso — the popular, homegrown Polar Bear — is going to be spending the rest of his career elsewhere.