To nobody’s surprise, Pete Alonso has been named NL Player of the Week after his 12-for-30 (.400) performance at the plate last week. It’s the fifth time Alonso has taken home these honors. Francisco Lindor last won NL Player of the Week for the Mets in August 2024. Vinnie Pasquantino of the Kansas City Royals took him AL Player of the Week honors.
New Yorkers spent the weekend cranking their air conditioning units for the first time in 2025, so it’s poetic justice that the Polar Bear concluded perhaps his best road trip in a Mets uniform.
Pete Alonso continued his ascend of the Mets record books on Sunday, hitting two home runs in the team’s 13-5 blowout victory against the Rockies. Those two round-trippers tied and then subsequently passed David Wright for second on the Mets all-time list. Alonso now has 243 home runs, just ten away from surpassing Darryl Strawberry for the top spot in franchise history.
“It’s really cool,” Alonso said on overtaking the most recent team captain, “I just want to help the team win every single chance I get…I don’t really think it’s going to truly settle in until later on.”
Pete Alonso (20) Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images
The Mets head home from their trip out west after going 5-2, a mark any Met fan would have signed up for heading in. Alonso went 12-for-30 in those games, with five home runs and 15 RBIs. Tack on the three RBIs that Alonso had on June 1, and that puts him on pace for 61 in June! To put it in perspective, the current team record for RBIs in a calendar month is 34 by Gary Carter (hat tip to MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo for that note).
Alonso is now slashing .301/.396/.594 on the year, leading MLB in RBIs (61). Alonso is the first player in MLB to reach the 60 RBI plateau in 2025, and he has gotten there by coming up clutch with runners in scoring position. According to Jeff McNeil, who also homered twice on Sunday, the key for Pete in 2025 has been consistency.
“Pete has been pretty incredible this year. He’s locked in every single at-bat,” McNeil said, “Just seems like in big situations, he’s going to do some damage.”
A look at Alonso’s underlying numbers suggests that it’s no fluke either. Alonso is currently in the 97th percentile or higher in xwOBA (.438), xBA (.313) and xSLG (.642). His average exit velocity (94.8 mph), barrel percentage (20.5%) and hard-hit percentage (55.3%) are all in the 96th percentile or higher.
Perhaps it was Juan Soto who described Alonso’s 2025 run most succinctly after Sunday’s win: “He’s Pete. He’s a great hitter.”
