Pete Alonso is competing for the first-base job along with Dom Smith and Todd Frazier.
He got off to a good start with the bat by hitting
a two-run homer against the Atlanta Braves in the New York Mets first spring training
game.
He hit 36 homers with 119 runs batted in with a .975 OPS at two levels in
the minor leagues last season, but the Mets did not call him up, because of his
defensive deficiency at first base.
Alonso, who has good power, is determined to
work hard on his defense and play the best he can consistently through the
remaining five weeks of spring training.
The Mets had a surprise visit last week at their spring
training complex from Alex Rodriguez who was touring the team’s complex. The
hundreds of fans along the fence that were waiting for their favorite player
immediately took notice when Alex came out.
He conducted an interview with
general manger Brodie Van Wagenen. He also chatted with Jeff Wilpon, Terry
Collins, Ruben Amaro Jr and some of the players. Alex and Mickey Callaway go
along way back, because they were former teammates with the Texas Rangers.
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Tebow started in left field and came to the plate with two
runners on and hit a shot to left-center which was caught by a diving Myles
Straw.
Prior to that, Tebow tried to make a diving catch in the outfield which
he thought he had, but the ball came out of his glove after he took a tumble
and hit the bleachers or chairs.
In 2018 he played for the New York Mets
Eastern League Affiliate-the Binghamton Rumble Ponies and was named to the
Eastern League All-Star Team in his second full season in the Mets minor league
system.
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He was in major league camp last spring, however
he spent most of 2018 rehabbing a broken left hand and had elbow problems which
was caused by a bone spur and chips that had to be removed. He played 22 games for Triple-A Las Vegas last
season before the injuries came.
He was invited to minor league camp this year
and hit a three-run homer in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Astros on Monday.
4 comments:
If Tim Tebow makes the opening day roster, even I will be able to say I was misunderestimating him. Which would be very Bush of me.
Pete's nuclear homer and a double in 5 ABs? Smith has his work cut out for him in the 1B competition. We already know Todd Frazier will hit .213, regardless of where he plays.
I still would send him to AAA for the beginning of April.
Trust me... we are going to kill for another Jake year.
Here's what I am liking already...
Obviously the depth.
JD Davis, Pete Alonso, Amed Rosario, and the top four starters.
What I am hoping to see rest of the ST way...
A true battle for the fifth starter spot, winner take all.
A slightly more defined bullpen.
A glut of homeruns and hot dogs.
Dear befuddled and beaten fellow NY Mets fans...
It may be hard to believe this I know, but it is looking like the "NY Mets Wagon" has gotten its wheels back on for the start of the 2019 season and we all have something very, very good and fun to be looking forward to now.
What a potentially scary good offense this is shaping into. Pete Alonso, JD Davis, Robbie Cano, Wilson Ramos, Amen Amed Rosario, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, and Jeff McNeil. OMG!
Pinch me, because I need to know that I am not dreaming this or have slipped into some kind of a hallucinatory state or metaverse.
I am so pumped up by this team "The Brodie Bunch."
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