The Preeminent 42+ in Mets History

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The 1997 Mariners hit 264, the pre-2019 record until the MFYs of 2018 hit 267.

[MFS62]

Most HRs by a team in a single season was 225 entering 2019. This year, the Twins already hit 287 HRs. Oh, and the ball's not juiced.

"Oh, of course not" (sez MLB). It's that darn launch angle swing everybody's teaching.



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[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: Strangely, the first 49 in my head isn't Armando, but Kevin Kobel. If compensation was based on what you remember from when you were 12 or 13, I'd have an awful lot of money.

The great majority of "I associate that number this this player..." are from the 80's Mets. Basically, the first time I saw them.



1. Mookie

2. Bobby Valentine

3. Rafael Santana

4. Dykstra

5. Wright

6. Backman

7. Jose Reyes

8. Carter

9. Hundley

10. Rusty

11. Teufel

12. Darling

13. Alfonzo

14. Hodges

15. Beltran

16. Doc

17. Keith

18. Darryl

19. Ojeda

20. Hojo



13 out of 20 from the '80's. And 14 wasn't eligible, so really it's 13 out of 19.

[G-Fafif]

Longtime, fairly recent and not altogether undistinguished 49 Jon Niese didn't occur to me until a day had passed. Tyler Bashlor and Orber Moreno came up first.

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Preeminent 50s



All due respect to Mr. Fernandez, Mr. Agbayani and the entire 1965 club (50-112), in the 153rd game of 2019, there is only...



PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[stevejrogers]

Still just bubbling under the Top 40 All-Time in Met history.

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Preeminent 51s:



Rick White from 2000

Paul Sewald from last night



and PETE (Game 158)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Pete has really moved the Mets up on this list! They're now ahead of three of the original franchises (Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, and Chicago White Sox) and are tied with the Boston Braves.

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[Centerfield]

Most of the time I find it hard to believe that a Met has actually hit 50 HRs. Other times I find it surprising that no one in our history has ever randomly gone off for 50. Like it would be totally Mets for the record to be held by Butch Huskey or Richard Hidalgo and never have that guy hit more than 20 HRs again. Let's hope that's not the case with Pete.



I also remember thinking that the Mets first no-hitter would result in a loss.

[Guest 41Forever]

Interesting that Andruw Jones has the Braves' record. Fulton County Stadium was known as a launching pad. Then again, players in the 1970s were leading the league with under 40 homers.

[G-Fafif]

Any conceivable total Pete concludes with will be wonderful. Hard to ask for more than 51 (all I ever wanted was 42), especially knowing it's tied the NY NL record held by Johnny Mize and Willie Mays. But as long as we're asking...



52: Ties Judge for rookie record; matches Foster, which was THE PINNACLE for any fan growing up in the '70s. Nobody had hit 50 home runs in twelve years and nobody would hit 50 home runs for another 13 years. It was such an aberration, yet it didn't seem crazy, because Foster was so dangerous (if only the Mets could get a guy like that).



53: Sets new rookie record, elbowing aside some dopey MFY; tops Foster, which isn't a thing, exactly, but on the Monday night following the last game of the 1977 season, I recall hearing Jonathan Schwartz on WNEW-AM reading that night's scores, which didn't exist (theater of the mind; he was a Red Sox fan missing baseball), and noting that in the Cincinnati game, "George Foster has hit No. 53," and for a couple of seconds I believed it.



54: Matching Ralph Kiner's highest total would be beautiful. I found myself during the season thinking how much Ralph would have enjoyed talking about Pete and missed Ralph all over again.



55 and over: Too much to ask for with four games to go, but we'll take it.

[Willets Point]

I'd really like to see him match Ralph (and David and Jose).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Even if he stops at 51, I'll be more than satisfied. 51 is a pretty cool number, because at a glance it looks like a prime number, but it isn't!

[seawolf17]

I want him to go 5-for-5 tonight with five home runs.

[Willets Point]

Jeter & Mattingly have a Yankees record to defend so Alonso will probably walk 5 times tonight.

[Edgy MD]

=Centerfield post_id=22987 time=1569506587 user_id=65]Like it would be totally Mets for the record to be held by Butch Huskey or Richard Hidalgo and never have that guy hit more than 20 HRs again. Let's hope that's not the case with Pete.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Even if he stops at 51, I'll be more than satisfied. 51 is a pretty cool number, because at a glance it looks like a prime number, but it isn't!

But it is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B8rmer_numberStørmer number and a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motzkin_numberMotzkin number.



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There was Carlos Torres.

There was (and sort of is) Yoenis Cespedes.



And now there is Pete Alonso (Game 160).



Shove over, Judge.