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?
