Posted on by Shannon Shark @metspolice

Mets’ Pete Alonso’s power surge and Todd Frazier’s Magic Bats

Scully, take a look at this.

Yes Mulder, that’s Pete Alonso’s HR from last night.

You don’t see anything strange, Scully?

No, Mulder, what do you mean?

Look at the contact. He made terrible contact, and yet the ball flew out.

Mulder, the man hit 53 home runs last season.

And yet Scully, he could barely buy a home run this year until last week.

So?

What changed last week Scully?

The Mets re-acquired Todd Frazier?

Exactly Scully.  And then, after the Mets reacquired admitted cheater Todd Frazier, suddenly Pete has hit five home runs in seven games.

Baseball players do get hot Mulder.

They apparently get hot by using someone else’s bats.  Alonso says he has been using Frazier’s bats since Frazier returned.

So?

Did you see him cover his mouth in the video Scully?   Let me read to you from Westside Toast Masters.

The hand covers the mouth as the brain subconsciously instructs it to try to suppress the deceitful, or in other cases unintended, words that are being said. Sometimes this gesture might only be several fingers over the mouth or even a closed fist, but its meaning remains the same.

Mulder you just sourced West Side Toast masters.

Don’t you see it Scully?  The Frazier Correlation? The nervous laughter at the end of the clip?  The home run last night off a poor swing?  What in the name of Whitey Herzog do you think is going on Scully?

You don’t think…..

I don’t think anything Scully.  But I know statistical outliers when I see them, and I see one reappearing.

You’re crazy Mulder.

Perhaps Scully, perhaps.  The truth is out there.  Only 8 baseball players have hit 50 HRs more than once in their career, and three of them are named Rodriguez, McGwire and Sosa.