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Lyin’ Todd Frazier who  you may not know is from New Jersey, once played in the Little League World Series and has met Derek Jeter, has finally reached PEAK TODD FRAZIER by playing for a baseball team IN NEW JERSEY!

The Miners by the way have very nice looking uniforms.

Lyin’ Todd is apparently getting ready to represent the US of A in the Olympics where hopefully he will play honorably and not switch baseballs to cheat which is a dishonorable thing to do and not something I would want our Olympians to do.

Best of luck to Lyin’ Todd and his attempt to hit .185 in the minors and then Tokyo.

 

 

Pete Alonso spoke to the media.  I shall comment.

Pete, anywhere else is CITI FIELD.  So is the answer ONE?   Because that’s how many you’ve hit at home.  It’s June 9th.  Pete also has three RBI at home.  Three.  It is June 9th.  Three.

I can’t keep track of the Tims, I forget if this is the Tim who doesn’t like me or the other Tim and which Tim yells at managers but…

And let’s get to it Pete.  Let’s really get to it.

Here’s why changing the baseball is bad.   Your game is home runs.  You broke the rookie record when MLB decided to have Superballs that flew out of the park.  That led Mets fans to put you in Cooperstown, and to blind the Mets that they should have traded you at peak value.  After all, only 8 players have hit 50 or more twice and three of them are McGwire, Sosa and A-Rod.

Now we see that you are a .245 batter who is going to hit something like 27. 28. 29 home runs.  In other words, Ike Davis with a worse glove.

So I am sure Pete would love to see the superballs come back.

But let’s look at that free agency comment.  That is sure to get some eyes popping wide open at The MLB HQ.

And now let’s look at THIS quote….

So what Pete is saying is that EVEN PETE may think his 2019 numbers are kinda fugazi.

Trade High-ish Mets….while you still can.

 

The Orioles are so bad they will start Matt Harvey tonight.  Matt Harvey is awful and if the Mets don’t win then everyone should be fired.  Matt Harvey!

Someone who is not awful is Dom Smith who is batting .364 (12- 33) with three runs, two doubles, two home runs, five RBI, five walks and a 1.082 OPS over his last 11 games…He is batting .295/.390/.400 with 11 runs, seven extra-base hits, 12 RBI, 13 walks and a .790 OPS in 32 games since the start of May…He is batting .325/.370/.425 against left-handed pitchers this year.  That said, he isn’t allowed to start on Opening Day every year.

Pete Alonso, who has ONE home run and THREE RBI at home (REALLY) is probably happy this is a road game.

I predict the booth will go on and on about how Pete is “heating up” and despite the Mets facing Matt “Three HRs in a 4.1 inning start” Harvey, I predict that Pete will have an 0 for 4 game AND that he won’t homer again until NEXT Friday.  Your move Vulgar Pete – and I am spotting you Matt Harvey AND Camden Yards.  Even I could homer tonight.

On this day in 2016, Pete Alonso was selected by the Mets in the second round of the First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Florida…Alonso recorded his eighth career multi-home run game last night…He now has recorded 78 home runs in 262 career games in the majors…the Mets used to brag about how he was the fastest to X and then teh second fastest to X and now don’t even bother.

Alonso now sits 24th on the team’s all-time home run list, surpassing Robin Ventura (77) last night…Keith Hernandez is next at 23rd with 80 home runs…He has hit safely in all seven of his starts since returning from the 10-Day IL…Overall, he is batting .333 (10-30) with six runs, three home runs, nine RBI and a walk in eight games since returning from the IL…Alonso is batting .273/.357/.473 with five home runs against right-handed pitchers this year…In addition, Alonso is batting .282/.339/.545 with eight home runs in 29 games on the road this year…That compares to a .191/.350/.298 mark in 16 games at Citi Field in 2021 which I think we can all agree is terrible.

 

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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