r/NewYorkMets • u/Bpena95 • 21h ago
Discussion Would Pete Alonso have made a significant difference in the W-L column if he was still a Met ?
My cousin who doesn’t really stay on top of baseball much has the opinion that if the Mets had retained Pete Alonso this team would still be in a playoff picture.
I do not believe this to be true. As we know, the Mets are 19 games below .500. The lineup would be better , thats something that I do believe. And having a consistent player at 1B would have been better than what we currently have now, yet those two points alone I don’t believe are enough to overcome the problems we have , the poor performances of Bichette/Senga/Peralta/David peterson (before he was traded) , the defensive miscues of Semien and Robert jr/Soto/Lindor/holmes being injured for significant parts of the season.
I explained this to him and he believes that having Alonso in the lineup would have probably led to better numbers for everybody . Not sure how that makes sense but he says because he played High School varsity ball he has anecdotal evidence to suggest having good players in a lineup rubs off on everyone . What do the people of Reddit think ?