This is a Mets blog page, mainly posting Mets content with a few sprinkles of other baseball news, but for the majority it is for Mets content and with that comes bias. Close your eyes Yankee fans but I see Pete Alonso as a powerhouse matchup to the Judge in pinstripes; Mr. Aaron Judge. Lets get the narrative straight here, there is no player with more homers since 2019 than Pete Alonso. Pete Alonso has hit a staggering 163 homers and already is on the cusp of 20 before June!

There needs to be a change in narrative that has frankly held back Alonso from getting the respect he deserves as a legitimate power threat. Even with Judge’s monster 2022 season of 62 bombs, Alonso still leads in homers with 163, 12 more than Judge. Granted, Judge has had injury history but so does everyone in baseball, Alonso has just been getting lucky with no real injury bug. Its been 4 years since his historical rookie campaign in 2019, disregarding the 16 homer 2020 season, Pete has been in the top margins for RBIS, SLG% and of course homers! Yet there is still some sort of sigma around Alonso that many MLB pages don’t highlight with Alonso as one of the ten current best hitters in the game. Maybe its because he’s on the Mets and the stray of bad luck that infects the Mets image or maybe just the blatant disrespect that disregards him as one of the best hitters.

Its fine, we can be underrated, many of the Mets are underrated for how they are respected once they wear the orange and blue. Alonso has had many challenges in his life and he has overcome all of them, there is no stopping the image this man will do to the MLB. NL leading RBI king with 45 and a league leading 19 home runs. He is unstoppable, and no one not even the Mets knew the insane power and longevity he would have for this team. Alonso is really on pace for another insane home run season where he could potentially demolish his old record of (53) and reach the 60s. Its a huge honor to reach that height for home runs in a season but no one is talking about it. To reiterate Judge didn’t hit his 19th home run till June 2nd! Alonso has already reached that feat on May 26th!

Alonso is already the Mets all time leading home run hitter at Citi Field as he passed Lucas Duda with his 72nd homer in last night’s game 6/4 against the Blue Jays. Alonso is the key piece for the Mets success, he is a juggernaut for a determined team to reach the playoffs, without the polar bear the Mets would not be the same team they are. It’s up to the Polar bear to once again prove the haters wrong and show he is built for anything. Put his name in glory with the legends of the 60hr club, orange and blue is calling his name its time. 60+ hr season in the works.