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Pete Alonso was named an All-Star first baseman finalist Thursday, along with Paul Goldschmidt.

While Alonso is unlikely to surpass Goldschmidt and the tremendous year the Cardinals’ veteran is having, it’s still another impressive accomplishment in Alonso’s young but successful career thus far. The 27-year-old leads the Mets with a 154 wRC+ this year, which also ranks 15th in baseball.

Alonso has shown that when he’s at his best, he’s a superstar, and when he’s at his worst, he’s still a good player. He wasted no time in living up to his potential, bursting onto the scene his rookie year. He shattered the expectations of even the people who were highest on him. He posted a 144 wRC+ and 4.4 fWAR while hitting 53 homers and driving in 120 runs. It was a rookie season for the ages that won him a Rookie of the Year award.

He had a somewhat expected “sophomore slump” in 2020, if you can even call it that. It’s important to note that this came in the 60-game season, 57 of which Alonso played in. It’s hard to take that sample with as much value as a typical 162-game season. Even still, he put up a 120 wRC+, which is well above average. He was on pace for roughly 45 homers in a full season.

In 2021, while he still didn’t quite live up to his historic rookie year, he was still pretty great. He hit 37 homers and posted a 133 wRC+ and 3.3 fWAR. And now he’s having arguably the best season of his still-relatively young MLB career. While his .280 ISO still isn’t quite the massive .323 he put up in 2019, it’s still fantastic, and he’s raised his batting average .20 points from his rookie year.

Alonso already ranks eighth on the Mets’ all-time home run leaderboard. He’s smashed three more homers than Lucas Duda did, and he’s only four below Michael Conforto‘s mark. His 128 long balls are more than 50% of the way to the team’s all-time leader, Darryl Strawberry, with 252. Assuming Alonso remains a Met for years to come, he has a very realistic chance at breaking that number. Putting this into perspective, it’s almost hard to fathom how a guy who debuted just a few years ago is already in the Mets’ top 10 all-time home run leaders.

He’s pretty high up on the RBI leaderboard too, with his 318 ranking 25th in Mets history. A list that includes people like David Wright, Mike Piazza and Carlos Beltran. He’s also on pace to crush the Mets’ single-season record for RBIs in a season. Alonso has wasted no time in bolting onto a path to the status of Mets legend.

As of now, he has just one All-Star appearance to his name. But it’s very likely he’ll add another one to his resume this year. While he probably won’t beat Goldschmidt, who has a blistering 195 wRC+, there’s certainly still a path to the All-Star game as a representative for the Mets.

It’s also worth not forgetting that Alonso has won two Home Run Derby titles, a largely meaningless but nonetheless impressive achievement for the star. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Alonso is how quickly he’s burst onto the scene, from the moment he was promoted to the majors. In 2018, casual Mets fans became familiar with Alonso due to his progression in the minors, but most of baseball still didn’t know about him. Just a year later, he was already in the All-Star game and winning the Home Run Derby. The rise from minor leaguer to nationally prominent player is just a marvel to look back at.