Everybody knows what Aaron Judge did last season, when he became as great as any slugger the Yankees have seen in passing Roger Maris to end up with an American League-record 62 home runs. Judge finally got there after a September when every one of his at-bats at Yankee Stadium and everywhere else the Yankees played became appointment viewing.

Judge caught Babe Ruth at 60 and then Maris at 61, and then he hit No. 62 on Oct. 4 against the Rangers’ Jesus Tinoco at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Well-deserved awards and honors have followed him since, culminating with his new $360 million contract with the Yankees.

And here is one more way of understanding just how big Judge was in 2022, how much he towered over the sport’s skyline across the second half of the season: He obscured how good and how productive and how big a year Pete Alonso had for the Mets on the other side of baseball New York.

“I’m still not sure,” Buck Showalter said the other day, “that people fully appreciate how good a year this young man [Alonso] had.”

Judge is going to keep hitting home runs for the Yankees, whether he gets anywhere near 60 again or not. He is on the same team with Giancarlo Stanton, who chased 60 one time with the Marlins before ending up with 59. Last season for the Yankees, Stanton missed more than 50 games, something he seems to do when he’s not hitting the ball out of the park, and he still ended up with 31 homers.

Then there is Alonso.

He broke Judge’s rookie home run record when he hit 53 for the Mets in 2019. Even with the short season of 2020, when teams only played 60 games, Alonso has now hit 146 home runs over the past four campaigns, which is nine more than Judge has hit in the same period.

Judge missed 60 games because of injuries in 2019, and eventually played less than half of ’20 -- so absolutely, factor that into the comparative numbers. But this also speaks to an essential fact about the strength of the player the Mets and their fans call the Polar Bear: He is always there for them. Over the past four seasons, Alonso has missed a grand total of 16 games.

“I’ve said this before about [Alonso],” Showalter said. “He posts up.”

It means he shows up.

Last season Alonso missed just two games for the Mets. The year he hit the 53 homers, he missed just one game. He played 57 out of 60 in 2020. So he isn’t just a bear. He’s a horse, and last season he ended up setting the Mets’ all-time RBI record by getting to 131. It is the exact number Judge ended up with for the Yankees.

Judge won the AL MVP Award breezing, as he should have, getting 28 out of 30 first-place votes (Shohei Ohtani got the other two). But year after year -- and that means starting with his rookie year -- Alonso has been one of the most valuable players in all of baseball.

Alonso couldn’t touch Judge’s home run numbers last season, because nobody was going to do that. But he keeps hitting them. When the Mets have played full seasons, he has never hit fewer than 37 home runs, to go with the 40 this past season and the 53 when he was a rookie. That’s his home run resume, three seasons like that out of the four full he’s played in the big leagues. Yeah, there’s a lot that isn’t appreciated fully about the quiet man at first base at Citi Field.

And if Alonso remains healthy and Judge stays healthy and Stanton finally does, too, we can get the kind of home run summer in both leagues that New York used to see in the 1950s, when Mickey Mantle was hitting them at the old Stadium and Willie Mays was doing the same at the Polo Grounds and another quiet man, Duke Snider, kept hitting 40 for the Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

It has a chance to be a great baseball summer, period, in New York, coming off a year that came close to having both the Yankees (99) and Mets (101) winning 100 games in the regular season for the first time in history. The Mets have gotten better since last season ended, whether they end up with Carlos Correa or not. The Yankees have acquired Carlos Rodón and given themselves at least the chance to have the best starting rotation in their league. And when was the last time you could say that about the Yankees?

So much happened with both teams last season. Mostly Aaron Judge happened in 2022. But so, too, did Pete Alonso. Beware the bear in ’23.