This is the second year where we are walking through the previous season’s Baseball America’s Top Prospect handbook, looking at the all the Mets to see how they are developing against Baseball America’s Projections.
This is going to be a fun one folks, today we look at Pete Alonso 2019 Prospect profile. You know Pete Alonso. He hit 53 homers, setting a record for a rookie. He won the home run derby. He coined “LFGM”. He won the Rookie of the Year Award. All around good fun for Mets fans.
Before the 2019 season, BA wrote that Alonso led the minors with 36 homers in 2018. They also discussed his homer in the Future’s Game that year that left his bat at 113.6 mph. He was breaking stat cast numbers. foreshadowing his 2019. He has 70 power. He has 20 running ability. He’s not great defensively. Etc. He’s an “American League player in the National League”. They ended with he’ll be ready in early 2019.
And it’s easy to forget that last year it was unknown if he was going to start the season with the Mets! But he started the season with the Mets and had a tremendous offensive impact. As the season went on he wasn’t as big as a liability with the glove than originally thought. Going into his second major league season he has graduated off the prospect list in the best way possible. He has personal hardware and he’s hoping to bring the Mets some team hardware in short order, so he can be “on a float drunk as hell” in October.
