Most MLB executives have their tactics when it comes to their media sessions. With Ross Atkins, Blue Jays fans have grown accustomed to pretty generic, all-encompassing answers.

This was a recurring theme throughout SNY broadcaster Gary Cohen’s conversation with the Mets’ leadership. Later, after Stearns repeated how much the team loves Alonso, their homegrown, free agent first baseman, Stearns expressed that they “also feel really good about the young players that are coming through (the) system.”