The Crane Pool Forum

NAME: Pete Alonso
AGE: 27
POSITION: First Base
NUMBER: 20
NICKNAME: Polar Bear, Piss Missile Pete, Pete LaCock
fWAR IN 2021: 3.0
ZIPS PROJECTION FOR 2022: 4.0

I'm not a good power hitter. I'm a good hitter. That's what Keith Hernandez says, and Keith knows that sort of stuff.

I don't blame you if you have your doubts. I wouldn't be the first hitter who, once becoming a high achieving homerun guy, puts every other concern aside to maintain that status. And I've chased and flailed at the outside slider — sometimes, it seems, for weeks at a time.

But in 2.4 seasons, I'm sitting on 106 career homeruns. That's more than Bobby Bonilla or Cliff Floyd or Rusty Staub hit in their entire Met careers, so if that's all you get out of me, I hope you might find a way to be happy with it. Perhaps, more than happy?

But the question is whether that's all you get, or will it be more? Or less? The future is now. What do you see?

After predicting a great year for DeGrom and then hearing his arm hurts, I will not be jinxing any more Mets by making predictions this year.
My heart can't take it.
Later

I'd expect something along the lines of the .262/.344/.519 with 37 HR we got last year. The lineup around him will be sufficiently better to push his RBI total over 100 though.

Career year (except for the nutty 53 HR thing) and NL MVP to boot.

Put it in the books!

smg58 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:09 am I'd expect something along the lines of the .262/.344/.519 with 37 HR we got last year. The lineup around him will be sufficiently better to push his RBI total over 100 though.

Ditto.

To distinguish I'll say 36 dingers, 261/343/518

Pete's slow start seemed to have a lot to do with that hand injury but he scorched after that was behind him. I think the big, hairy baby is closer gets closer to his rookie year than last year: .265/.360/.560, 45 homers, and another HR Derby trophy.

The Polar Bear will eat. .265 40/110. Wins the HR Derby because of course he does.