Peter Morgan Alonso graduated from Plant High School (FL), the same school as Hall of Famer Wade Boggs...Recipient of the 2013 Wade Boggs Athletic Achievement Award, based upon outstanding athletic skills, academic achievement and good sportsmanship...Turned in a high school batting average of .460 (116-252) with 99 RBI...Named the Joe DiMaggio Toast of the Town and Ben Epstein-Dan Castellano Good Guy Award winner for 2019 by the New York chapter of the BBWAA...Attended the University of Florida, where he played with Yankees outfielder Harrison Bader...Was named to the 2015 SEC All-Tournament Team as a sophomore and was a 2016 Dick Howser Trophy semi-finalist as a junior...Was an NCBWA first-team All-America, Perfect Game/Rawlings first-team All-America, ABCA/Rawlings second-team All-America, a Baseball America third-team All-America and an All-SEC second-team selection during his junior season...Was invited to the USA Baseball 18-U National Team trials...As a junior led the SEC with a .659 slugging percentage and ranked fourth with a .374 average (79-211)...Tallied 60 RBI and 51 runs scored...Hit .500 (16-32) in the 2016 NCAA Tournament with five homers and 13 RBI...Was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Gainesville Regional...Was given the nickname "Polar Bear" by Todd Frazier during Spring Training in 2019...Is a big Jerry Seinfeld fan and has met the comic several times...Seinfeld awarded Alonso the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award at the 2019 BBWAA annual awards dinner in New York...Started The Alonso Foundation with his wife Haley...Their Homers for Heroes initiative was started during the COVID-19 pandemic...Alonso says "Homers For Heroes basically brings people to light that are absolutely going above and beyond their call of duty...What I want to do is help people that are helping others that arekind of in the shadows"...As part of his foundation, sponsored the training of a service dog in 2023 named Bear to be partnered with a veteran in need of a service dog...Will participate in the 2023 World Baseball Classic for Team USA...On Jan. 13, 2023, The Alonso Foundation hosted Pete Alonso's Battle for the Bay at Plant High School, his alma mater, in Tampa...The event featured the Tampa Bay area's best youth baseball and softball players competing in a home run derby as well as food trucks, fun games and a special home run exhibition by Alonso and other MLB veterans, including fellow Plant HS alum Kyle Tucker, Christian Arroyo, Gio Urshela and longtime Tampa Bay Ray Carlos Peña...During the 2020 season, his foundation honored a hero after each of the Mets' 60 games...Each hero received a care package, which included game-used memorabilia from Alonso...During the COVID-19 baseball shutdown, Alonso recorded personalized messages for several healthcare professionals in the New York/New Jersey area thanking them for their sacrifice and contributions...Also joined teacher Greg Berry from Jericho (NY) High School on a Zoom call to introduce his geometry lesson...Participated in a PSA urging fans to stay home and help flatten the curve...Participated in a Fanatics auction during the pandemic, offering a private fishing charter which raised $70,000 towards Feeding America, Meals on Wheels, World Central Kitchen and No Kid Hungry...During Spring Training in 2021, created an NFT and auctioned it off to benefit More Than Baseball, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting minor leaguers who need financial support with housing, equipment and nutrition...The NFT was designed by former Mets minor leaguer Tommy Wilson...In 2021, Alonso hosted The Battle of the Boroughs presented by Citi at Maimonides Park, the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones...Fans watched top youth baseball players from around NYC compete in a home run derby...All proceeds benefited the Homers for Heroes foundation...Used a custom-designed bat during the 2019 All-Star week and Players' Weekend, named "Haley's Comet" in honor of his then-fiancée...Using that bat, won the Home Run Derby...Hit his 41st home run of the 2019 season with the bat, tying the Mets' single-season record...Designed custom-made, 9/11-themed cleats for himself and his teammates for the Mets' home game on Sept. 11, 2019 vs. Arizona...Donated the cleats to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on Oct. 1, 2019...Wore special cleats again in 2021...In 2019, he donated 10 percent of his $1 million Home Run Derby winnings to charity, giving $50,000 to Wounded Warrior Project and $50,000 to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation...In 2021, he donated a portion to his Homers for Heroes foundation.
2022
Finished eighth in the NL MVP race, garnering a second-place vote...Was a Hank Aaron Award finalist for the second time...Named an NL All-Star for the second time...Drew a walk in his lone plate appearance in the Midsummer Classic...Reached the semifinals of the Home Run Derby...Missed just two games all season, sitting out in the regular season finale and June 8 following a June 7 HBP...Tied for fifth in the majors with 160 games played...Started 133 games at first base...Was used as a DH 27 times, driving in 25 runs in those games...Tied for first in the majors and led the NL in RBI...Tied for third in the majors and was second in the NL with 40 home runs...Tied for fifth in the majors and ranked fourth in the NL with 309 TB...Tied for 11th in the NL with 95 runs...Ranked 11th in MLB and sixth in the NL with a .518 SLG...Is 12th in the majors and seventh in the NL with a .870 OPS...Finished 11th in the NL with a .352 OBP...Ranked 11th in the NL with a career-high 162 hits...Led the majors with a major league-record 27 game-winning RBI (first tracked in 1974), nine more than any other player...Also led MLB with 35 go-ahead RBI...Posted a 1.099 OPS with runners in scoring position, hitting a Mets-record 17 homers in those situations...Hit all 40 of his home runs in the cleanup spot...The last player with more homers batting fourth in a season was Cody Bellinger (42 in 2019)…Drove in 127 of his 131 RBI as the Mets' four-hole hitter, the most RBI as a No. 4 hitter in a season since 2009, when Prince Fielder (141) and Ryan Howard (138) had more...Had nine games with at least four RBI, the most in Mets history and most by any player since José Bautista had 10 such games in 2010...Tied for second in the majors with 33 multi-RBI games...Set a Mets record with 30 RBI in May...Willie Montañez (1978) had the old mark with 28 RBI in May...He is the seventh Met with 30+ RBI in a calendar month...Hit nine homers in both May, June and September...He is the only Met in club history to have nine or more home runs in back-to-back months...He also did this the first three months of his career, April-June 2019...POSTSEASON...Went 3-10 in the NL Wild Card Series vs. San Diego...Hit his first Postseason home run in Game 2 on Oct. 8.
2021
Ranked third in the NL with 37 homers, tied for seventh with 67 extra-base hits and 11th with 291 TB...He tied for 11th in the league with 94 RBI, was 13th with a .519 SLG and 15th with an .863 OPS... His 37 long balls tied for 11th-most in a single season in Mets history...He is the sixth player in club history with multiple seasons of 35+ home runs...Joined Mike Piazza, Darryl Strawberry, Howard Johnson and Dave Kingman (three each) and Carlos Delgado (two)... Is the first Met with multiple seasons of 25+ homers on the road...Carlos Beltrán (2006) is the only other Met to reach that mark even once...The only other players to have multiple years with 25+ road home runs since 2000 are Barry Bonds, Nelson Cruz, Ryan Howard, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa... Performed better away from Citi Field, sporting a .288/.373/.618 slashline on the road compared to a .234/.313/.414 line at home...He hit a major league-leading 25 home runs on the road and collected 61 RBI away from home, good for the fourth-most in MLB...His .991 road OPS ranked fourth in the majors... Hit in 11-straight games from August 15-26, the longest hitting streak of his career...Had a 17-game road hitting streak from Aug. 16-Sept. 22 (.358/.421/.866)...It was the longest such hitting streak by a Met since David Wright's 20-gamer from April 14-May 21, 2012... Had a .785 OPS at home with nine homers and 20 RBI in the second half compared to a .656 OPS with three homers and 13 RBI at Citi Field before the break...Had 11 homers and 24 RBI in his last 42 home games after having one homer and nine RBI in his first 33 home games... Led the NL with 16 home runs off LHP...Homered every 10.56 at-bats vs. LHP, first in the NL and fifth in MLB... Narrowly missed posting the highest HR rate vs. LHP in Mets history...Dave Kingman's 10.55 AB/HR vs. southpaws in 1976 edges Alonso's rate by 0.01 AB/HR... Put up the lowest strikeout rate (19.9 percent), by far, of his career...Struck out in 27 of his 87 PA in April (31 percent), then dramatically cut down on Ks for the rest of the season, whiffing just 18 percent of the time from May 1 onward...K rate by month: April, 31%; May, 18.1%; June, 16.1%; July, 17.9%; Aug., 21.1%, Sept./Oct., 17.6%.
2020
Tied for seventh in the majors and tied for third in the NL with 16 home runs...Finished the year on a power streak, blasting 10 homers in his final 22 games...Tied for eighth in the NL with six hit-by-pitches...Tied for second in MLB with 10 homers in September...Had three multi-homer games, tied for the most in the NL: Aug. 17 at Miami, Sept. 6 vs. Philadelphia and Sept. 27 at Washington...Nearly one-third of his hits came against Washington (15 of 48)...Hit .429 (15-35) with three doubles and four homers vs. the defending World Champions...Belted his first career walk-off home run on Sept. 3 vs. the Yankees...His walk-off blast vs. the Yankees was the Mets' second-ever walk-off home run in the Subway Series and the third by either team in a regular-season Subway Series game.
2019
Became the sixth Met to be named the BBWAA NL Rookie of the Year...Named the Players' Choice NL Rookie of the Year...Also was Baseball America's MLB Rookie of the Year, the Baseball Digest NL Rookie of the Year and Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year...Was named a Topps Rookie All-Star...Finished in seventh place in the National League MVP voting...In his first major league season, set Mets single-season records for home runs (53), extra-base hits (85) and total bases (348) while also establishing club rookie records for hits (155), RBI (120), runs scored (103), at-bats (597), plate appearances (693), games played (161), slugging percentage (.583), OBP (.358) and OPS (.941)...Also tied the club rookie record with 72 walks...Was the eighth Met ever to record a 100-RBI, 100-run season...Led the majors with 53 homers and was fourth with 120 RBI...Finished tied for third with 85 extra-base hits, 10th with a .583 slugging percentage and 11th with a .941 OPS...Was third in the majors with 183 strikeouts...Tied for fifth in the majors with 21 hit by pitches...Led all qualified rookies in games played, hits, home runs, RBI, OPS, extra-base hits, runs scored, walks, total bases and slugging percentage...Ranked second in multi-hit games (42) and third in doubles (30). Was the NL Rookie of the Month for April, June and September 2019, making him the Mets' first three-time winner of the award...Jacob deGrom, who earned the honor twice in 2014, is the only other Met to win the award multiple times in a season since it began in 2001...The only other three-time winners of the award in the NL are Jason Bay (2004) and Juan Soto (2018)...Finished with the second-most RBI (120) and extra-base hits (85) ever by an NL rookie in the modern era...Only Albert Pujols has had more (130 RBI, 88 extra-base hits in 2001)...Was named to the Opening Day roster and made his major league debut as the starting first baseman in the Mets' season opener at Washington...Became the seventh player (only first baseman) in Mets history to make his major league debut in a start on Opening Day...Notched his first career hit, a single, in the eighth inning...Reached base safely in 34-straight games from August 2-September 9, the longest streak ever by a Mets rookie and the longest single-season streak in team history...Batted .314 (43-137) with seven doubles, 13 homers, 32 RBI and 23 runs scored during the streak with a 1.043 OPS...Was tied for the longest streak in the NL (also, Max Muncy)...Homered in four-straight games from August 5-9...The only other Mets rookie with a four-game homer streak is Larry Elliot (July 21-24, 1964)...Went deep in three-straight games twice, April 6-9 and September 17-20...Homered in consecutive games May 20-21, June 22-23, July 17-18, September 3-4 and September 27-28...His 33 multi-RBI games were the fourth-most in the majors...Mike Piazza (35 in 1999 and 2000) is the only player in franchise history with more...Finished tied for seventh in the majors with 13 games with at least three RBI...Carlos Beltrán (14 in 2008) is the only Met with more in a season...Set the club rookie record for home runs in a month with a major league-leading 11 September round-trippers...Also had 10 homers in May...Had two walk-off RBI, a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning of a 5-4 win on April 30 vs. Cincinnati and a bases-loaded walk on September 6 vs. Philadelphia in the bottom of the ninth inning...Hit a home run in 16 different ballparks, a rookie record and the most by a Met since Mike Piazza (18 in 2000)...Had four multi-homer games, tied for the most by a Mets rookie (also, Darryl Strawberry in 1983)...Led the majors with 18 homers and 48 RBI in the seventh inning or later...His 48 late-inning RBI were a Mets record...Todd Hundley (21 in 1996) is the only Met with more late-inning home runs in a single season. ... In the first half, set NL rookie records with 30 home runs and 68 RBI...Only Mark McGwire (33) in 1987 had more pre-break homers as a rookie... Set a major league rookie record with 53 extrabase hits before the All-Star break. ... Was the fourth player in NL history (11th overall) with at least 30 homers and 20 doubles before the All-Star break...Tied a franchise record with 30 homers before the All-Star break (also, Dave Kingman, 1976)...Clobbered his first big-league homer in the ninth inning on April 1 at Miami, a 444-foot, three-run blast off Drew Steckenrider in a 7-3 win...Blasted a 458-foot homer off the face of the third deck at Citi Field on June 15...Was the longest homer by a Met at Citi Field in the Statcast ERA (2015-present)...Was named NL Player of the Week for June 17-23...Went 10-24 (.427) with four homers and a 1.590 OPS during the week...His home run on June 23 was his 27th of the season, setting a Mets rookie record. Drilled a Statcast-estimated 474-foot, two-run homer into the third deck at Target Field on July 17...Was the longest blast by a Met since tracking began in 2015...Belted a go-ahead homer in the 16th inning on July 18 at San Francisco...Was the second Mets rookie to homer in the 16th inning or later (also, Tim Harkness' walk-off homer, September 1, 1963)...Hit his first career pinch-hit homer, a three-run shot, on July 20 at San Francisco...Set career-high marks with five hits and six RBI on August 15 at Atlanta and reached base in all six of his plate appearances, going 5-5 with a homer and a walk...Hit his 39th homer in that game to tie the NL rookie home run record...He became just the fourth Mets rookie with at least six RBI in a game and the sixth rookie in team history to produce a five-hit game...His 40th homer on August 18 at Kansas City established a new NL rookie record, passing Cody Bellinger (39, 2017)...Set the Mets' single-season home run mark with his 42nd homer on August 27 vs. the Cubs...Passed Todd Hundley and Carlos Beltrán (41)...Set the all-time rookie home run record with his 53rd blast on September 28 vs. Atlanta off Mike Foltynewicz...Passed Aaron Judge (52, 2017).
2017
Began and spent most of the season with St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State League...Promoted to Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League on August 24...Named a MiLB organization All-Star and a Baseball America High Class-A All-Star...Selected to the Florida State League postseason All-Star team...Was tied for second in the FSL in homers (16) and was tied for 10th in RBI (58)...Was the FSL Player of the Week twice (June 19-25 and July 17-23)...Earned Florida State League Player of the Month honors in July after hitting .336 (39-116) with seven doubles, eight homers and 26 RBI...Hit safely in nine of his 11 games (14-45, .311) with the Rumble Ponies, including a two home run performance against Erie on August 30...Placed on the Disabled List on April 12 with a broken left hand after being hit by a pitch while playing against Bradenton Marauders on April 11...Returned to action on May 26.
2016
Made his professional debut for Brooklyn (A) of the New York-Penn League on July 9 against Hudson Valley, going 1-4 with a double...Named a mid-season New York-Penn League All-Star...Was a Baseball America short-season All-Star.
