Less than 24 hours after New York Giants icon Tiki Barber publicly advised free-agent first baseman Pete Alonso to give the New York Mets a "hometown discount" to return to what's been the only MLB home of Alonso's career last week,

The longtime Met is still available halfway through January. We compare him to past first basemen to see if he's worth a big deal.

At some point the Mets either have to hear that Alonso is willing to accept their financial view of him or will get more aggressive elsewhere, probably pretty soon.