As I often say, here at Mets Police I don’t second guess, I first guess – and as the world’s leading expert on Pete Alonso, once again I was right. You guys usually don’t like when I am right, but last night you did. This tweet is from around 6:30 or so last evening.
Not bad, right? And with today being Harvey Day – the Orioles are so bad that with John Means on the IL that makes Matt Harvey their #1 starter – and Matt Harvey is soooooo bad, Pete is likely to fatten up even more tonight!
Now, did I suddenly become a Pete Alonso fan or think he’s good at baseball? Of course not. But I know the ball flies out of Camden Yards and Pete likes to hit fly balls…so sure…he can hit home runs in Baltimore.
But here’s the interesting thing – Pete Alonso plays 81 games in Queens. Let’s look at his splits.
AWAY – 8 Home runs, and coming into last night’s game he was batting .274 (Fangraphs sleeps in and there is no way to automatically and electronically update a website based on stats, the intern will have to come in with a calculator to adjust Pete’s batting average).
HOME – .191 ONE HOME RUN and THREE rbi. THREE RBI? It’s June 9th Pete. Three?
Now to be halfway fair the Mets have played 28 or 29 road games (again Fangraphs sleeps in) and only 15 at home, but still – THREE RBI?
Last year, which doesn’t count for some reason, he hit 9 on the road and 7 at home. In 2019, an even 27 home and 26 on the road.
Anyway, it is time for the Polar Bear to fatten up on some flat Matt Harvey pitches, and to store away some stat padding for the long home run drought to come once the Mets come back to Queens.
#LGM
