Pete Alonso is supporting the former teammate to make the Yankees

Dom Smith is in Tampa trying to win a place on the list with the Yankees, and a former teammate of his is encouraging him.

Pete Alonso, who played for the last time with Smith while he was with the Mets in 2022, is pulling for the 29-year-old left-handed.

“I am very happy for him who is having a good camp,” Alonso said, through Dan Martin Del New York Post.

Smith signed a minor leagues agreement with the Yankees this low season and has the opportunity to make the team partly because Giancarlo Stanton is indefinitely out with elbow injuries.

“Dom is a really good player and I hope they let him break with the team and give a lot of shifts to the bat,” Alonso said.

Smith exploded in 2020 as a part -time and first base gardener (next to Alonso) with a .316/.377/.616 (168 OPS+) line with 10 homers and 42 ranges. But it has been an offensive producer below the average in the four seasons of the big leagues since then and has spent a considerable time in triple-A in recent seasons.

In 693 Games of the Major League and 2,266 appearances on the plate, Smith has a .246/.313/.403 (97 OPS+) line with 64 homers and 259 ranges. Hit .233/.313/.378 with six home runs and 34 races promoted in 307 appearances on the plate last season with the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

(Jimmy Hascup of NJ Advance Media contributed to this report).