MLB Network ranked Mets’ first baseman Pete Alonso as baseball’s sixth-best in the game. Alonso ranked last year as the fifth-best first basemen in the sport, according to MLB Network. He has ranked as high as the third spot on the list (entering 2020), and his 2024 rank is his third-best finish on MLB Network’s list.
Alonso was ranked just behind Yandy Diaz, who finished fifth on the list. The list was topped by Dodgers’ MVP candidate Freddie Freeman, who was followed by Philadelphia’s recently-shifted first baseman Bryce Harper at second, Atlanta’s Matt Olson, and 2022 MVP Paul Goldschmidt of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The list was rounded out by Toronto’s Vlad Guerrero Jr. at the seventh spot, free agent Brandon Belt, who spent 2023 in Toronto, in the eighth spot, Arizona’s Christian Walker at the ninth, and the list was rounded out by Boston’s Triston Casas in the tenth spot.
Alonso, who is entering his age 29 season, is coming off a year in which he mashed 46 homers, which is the second-best mark of his career. Overall, Alonso slashed .217/.318/.504, received his third All-Star nod, and finished 17th in MVP voting, the third-highest finish of his career.
Alonso is entering the final year of his contract with the Mets and is the center of rumors surrounding a potential mega-deal to stay in Queens with the Mets. Alonso has been with the Mets since he was selected in the second round of the 2016 Amateur Draft out of the University of Florida.
The righty slugger is tied with Howard Johnson for the fourth most home runs in Mets history with 192 and would need 60 in 2024 to tie Darryl Strawberry‘s all-time mark of 252.
