Mets GM thinks Cespedes 'would like to come back'

By all indications, the New York Mets and Yoenis Cespedes want to be together.

Cespedes opted out of his three-year, $75-million contract to test the free agent waters this offseason, and the impression appears to be that both sides agree on one major thing: they want each other.

"I think we've said as an organization that we'd like to have him back," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said, according to ESPN's Adam Rubin. "I think by all indications he's happy ... and would like to come back."

While Alderson has regularly spoken with Cespedes' agent, he has yet to talk directly to the player.

In roughly a year and a half with New York, Cespedes batted .282/.348/.554 with 48 home runs and 130 RBIs in 189 games. Should he choose not to return to the Mets, the team would be left with a starting outfield comprised exclusively of left-handed hitters.

Jay Bruce, Curtis Granderson, and Michael Conforto would likely get the starting jobs, but Alderson isn't too concerned, considering Asdrubal Cabrera, Neil Walker, and Jose Reyes are all switch-hitters.

For now, the Mets are in wait-and-see mode if their superstar will accept an offer that would keep him in New York for the foreseeable future.

"I think we're going to have to wait a while to see how this turns out," Alderson said. "But he wants to be back. I think we'd like to have him back. But there are certain limits that every team faces and certain realities that every player has to take into account.

"Some of them are financial. Some are not. We'll just have to see how it goes."