Former Orioles skipper Buck Showalter knows the type of player and person Baltimore added in slugger Pete Alonso.

A person with knowledge of the agreement says the Baltimore Orioles have agreed to a $155 million, five-year deal with slugger Pete Alonso.

The Baltimore Orioles made a big splash by signing slugger Pete Alonso for five years and $155 million. Splash No. 2 could be free-agent pitcher Framber Valdez.

Pete Alonso was taken aback, nearly speechless at first. His new boss, the person who will sign his very large paychecks for the next five years, had just compared him to one of the greatest hitters of all time — and one of the best players to ever don an Orioles uniform.

When the news broke that Pete Alonso was headed to the Orioles, former teammate Todd Frazier had to break the devastating news to his Mets -loving son. The reaction? “Fake news,” his son texted back, unable to process that the beloved Polar Bear was really leaving Queens.

Just when you thought Pete Alonso’s Mets finale was over. On Saturday, the Orioles’ new $155 million first baseman attended the wedding of Mets pitcher A.J. Minter, as chronicled in a series of Instagram Stories shared by Alonso’s wife,