LAS VEGAS — Peter Alonso will pack his belongings and leave town next week, eventually landing in New York — albeit not for the kind of Citi Field engagement he yearned for as summer progressed.
As a minor league player invited to a Mets skills camp for one week, Alonso — a slugging first baseman who has emerged as one of the organization’s top prospects — will inhale the aroma of a big-league setting, without a seat at the dinner table.
Such was the reality recently presented to the 23-year-old Alonso when Mets special assistant Omar Minaya informed him he wouldn’t be among the team’s September call-ups.