Pete Alonso | |||||||||||||||
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New York Mets – No. 20 | |||||||||||||||
First baseman | |||||||||||||||
Born: Tampa, Florida, U.S. | December 7, 1994|||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
March 28, 2019, for the New York Mets | |||||||||||||||
MLB statistics (through 2024 season) | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .249 | ||||||||||||||
Hits | 781 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 226 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 586 | ||||||||||||||
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Peter Morgan Alonso (born December 7, 1994), nicknamed "Polar Bear", is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2019.
Alonso played college baseball for the Florida Gators before the Mets selected him in the 2016 MLB draft. Alonso made his MLB debut on Opening Day in 2019 and won the National League's Rookie of the Year Award that year, setting a major league record for rookies with 53 home runs. He is a four-time MLB All-Star and he led the league in home runs in 2019 and in runs batted in in 2022. He has also won the MLB Home Run Derby twice, in 2019 and 2021.