Alvarez pursued minor-league baseball beginning in 2014 and got into 50 major-league games with the Marlins and Dodgers in 2020-22.
Alvarez, acquired from the Red Sox for cash on Sunday and called up Monday, will fill basic baseball needs for the Mets as a bench option who can hit righthanded pitching, bunt, run and play almost anywhere defensively.
The Olympics is cutthroat. You train for this one moment every four years, which is crazy to think about. So yeah, this is very similar.
Seeking a lefthanded-hitting infielder after losing Jeff McNeil to a fractured right wrist for at least the rest of the regular season, the Mets moved quickly to bring in Alvarez.
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