Saturday evening, Major League Baseball announced their first and second All-MLB teams. Back in the beginning of November, three New York Mets were nominated for the award. Those being Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, and Pete Alonso. Of them, only Lindor was elected, as he was named to the second team.
Lindor was extremely deserving. The 30-year-old posted a .254/.336/.470 slash line good for an .806 OPS. He slugged 31 home runs, drove in 98 runs, and stole 31 bases. His 6.0 bWAR ranked tied for 10th in all of baseball, eighth among position players. Lindor was rightfully beat out for first team by Corey Seager. Seager posted a bWAR of 6.9 and an OPS of 1.013 to go along with 33 home runs.
As for Senga, 10 starting pitchers were named across the two teams, he was wrongly not one of them. The 30-year-old’s first year in the major leagues went superbly, as he posted a 12-7 record to go along with 202 strikeouts across 166 1/3 innings. His 4.5 bWAR ranked sixth among major-league starters last season. It was higher than Zac Gallen, Jordan Montgomery, Shohei Ohtani, Kevin Gausman, and Nathan Eovaldi. All of which were selected to an All-MLB team ahead of him. The verb “snubbed” is very applicable in this situation.
As for first baseman, Freddie Freeman was named to the first team and Matt Olson to the second team. Mets’ Alonso was nominated, however, rightfully missed out on the award. Freeman ranked eighth in the major in bWAR and Olson was fifth. Despite the 46 home run season, Alonso’s bWAR checked in tied for 99th in the majors at 3.2. Regardless, all in all it was another very strong season for the Mets’ slugger.
