Pete Alonso On Nine-Game Homer Drought
3 years agoNew York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso has been regularly getting on base over the past few weeks, but he hasn't been producing much power lately. He has no home runs and no extra-base hits over his last nine games. The 27-year-old is slashing .257/.305/.419 over 19 games on the year. He homered three times over his first 10 games, so his home run pace isn't looking terrible quite yet. He currently has a 12.5% HR/FB rate, which is nearly half of his career HR/FB rate, 24.2%. Some of his underlying power metrics are a bit down from last year, but they will likely all normalize once the sample size gets bigger. Expect the 6'3" slugger to start racking up more home runs soon.
Source: ESPN
Source: ESPN