Pete Alonso

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Pete Alonso
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New York Mets - No. 20
First baseman
Born: December 7th, 1994
Tampa , Florida
Strikes: Right Throws: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
March 28,  2019  at the New York Mets
MLB statistics
(until 2019)
AVG    , 260
MR    53
RBI    120
Teams
Awards

Peter Morgan Alonso (born December 7, 1994 in Tampa , Florida ) nicknamed Polar Bear, is an American baseball player who is a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets . After his first MLB season in 2019, he was voted Rookie of the Year in the National League and, with 53 home runs as a rookie, replaced the previous record holder Aaron Judge (52) in these statistics.

Career

Minor Leagues

Pete Alonso was selected by the New York Mets in the second round of the 2016 MLB Draft and played on various minor league teams in the franchise from 2016 to June 2018 . His last minor league season in 2018, when he played first with the Las Vegas 51s and then with the Binghamton Rumble Ponies , he finished with 36 home runs and a batting average of 0.285.

Major League Baseball

From the start of the 2019 season , Alonso was used as a starter for the Mets on first base. On April 1, he managed his first major league home run against the Miami Marlins . Alonso was nominated for the MLB All-Star Game 2019 on July 9th and scored two RBIs for the National League team. He also won the home run derby, where he beat Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the final with 23:22 home runs. On September 28, Alonso scored his 53rd home run of the current season, setting a new MLB record for most rookie home runs. The day before he had set Aaron Judge's (52) record . In the course of the season Alonso came to 161 appearances, where he reached 103 runs and a batting average of 0.260 and was chosen due to his performance as the sixth player in the history of the Mets for Rookie of the Year of the National League.

Web links

Commons : Pete Alonso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A giant stuffed polar bear showed up in the Mets dugout in honor of Pete Alonso. mlb.com, June 28, 2019, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 2016 Draft: Pick-by-pick. mlb.com, June 9, 2016, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  3. ^ Pete Alonso College, Amateur, Minor & Fall League Statistics. baseball-reference.com, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Alonso's first career HR an EPIC blast. mlb.com, April 2, 2019, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2019 All Star Game Boxscore. mlb.com, June 10, 2019, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alonso sets rookie HR record with No. 53. mlb.com, September 29, 2019. Retrieved on April 23, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ Pete Alonso Becomes the 6th Met to Be Named Rookie of the Year. New York Times , November 11, 2019, accessed April 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Alonso, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alonso, Peter Morgan (full name); Polar Bear (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampa , Florida , United States of America