337. That’s the number of home runs Jose Bautista has hit in his major league career. 7,010. That’s the number of plate appearances it took for Bautista to reach his current home run total. 1. That’s the number of walk-off home runs Bautista has hit in the big leagues. You read that correctly, it took over 7,000 plate appearances and hundreds of trips around the bases prior to...
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New York Mets No. 2 prospect, first baseman Peter Alonso, will participate in the All-Star Futures Game on July 15, according to Betsy Helfand of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Twitter. Alonso, 23, has split this season between Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Las Vegas, where he has launched 18 homers and driven in 67 runs while hitting .290/.422/.538. The Florida native was drafted by the...
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Jose Bautista, who has been a bright spot for the Mets this season, is set to return to Toronto on Tuesday, where he enjoyed a decade of premium success. Now 37-years-old, Bautista originally went to the Blue Jays from the Pittsburgh Pirates midway through the 2008 season, and two years later, he established himself as one of the premier offensive threats in the game. His last season as Jay in...
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Mets’ right-handed pitcher Zack Wheeler is 100 percent healthy for the first time since 2014. He missed all of 2015 and 2016 after undergoing Tommy John surgery, and returned last year but missed the latter half of the season with weakness in his right arm. Now in good health, Wheeler has ramped up his game, pitching to a 3.26 ERA in June and clocking in at 99 mph on the radar gun. This...
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Jose Bautista stayed on the open market until mid-April this year, after which he finally signed a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves. He debuted with the Braves in the beginning of May, and overall made 12 appearances with them before being cut on May 20. In 40 plate appearances with Atlanta, Bautista hit just .143/.250/.343 with two homers and five RBI. Upon his release, the Mets wasted...
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