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According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the Mets are leaning towards not calling up Peter Alonso on September 1. This report comes just hours after Mickey Callaway said, “He’s an interesting kid. He’s a hard worker, we found that out in Spring Training. He’s been willing to do everything that he can do to improve every day.”
According to Puma, reasons for the lack of a promotion for Alonso are a preexisting log-jam at first base (Wilmer Flores, Jay Bruce, Dominic Smith), and that Alonso doesn’t need to be on the 40-Man roster until after the 2019 season and there’s no urgency in having to add him to the 40-Man roster now. The Mets have been hesitant to call on Alonso all season long, and continue to show more of the same here.
Alonso, MLB Pipeline’s No. 63 prospect, is the first player in all of professional baseball to reach 100 RBIs on the season. The righty-swinging slugger is hitting .286/.402/.565 in 475 plate appearances between Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Las Vegas.
Alonso, 23, is the Mets’ No. 2 prospect according to MLB Pipeline and was recently ranked No. 4 by our team at MetsMinors.net. He was recently named organizational defensive player of the month for July.
