2020 Vision: Pete Alonso

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

What do you say? Sophomore slump? MVP? Something in between?

[Ceetar]

3rd on the team in home runs.



but that'd be first on the Nationals.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I could barely believe what I saw last season, and I can't honestly expect a repeat. It's fatalistic but realistic too.



I'm sorta with Ceets in the hopefulness that someone else on the club can step up and be as big as him again, because then he can have a relative offyear and not necessarily hurt us



29-99 .250/.320/.480? A few more slumps?

[Ceetar]

I'm not so much predicting an 'offyear' so much as he hits 30 but others are better. I'll stat line him at a later date.



though it's hard to say given the baseball.

[kcmets]

41 kabooms and 96 rib-eye steaks (w/ a nod to Keef)

[smg58]

Average up, power down. Matures as a hitter, but they go back to a real baseball. .270/.380/.545, with 38 HRs. Nimmo and McNeil hitting in front of him-full time push him over 100 RBIs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'm back and forth on Alonso's power output for 2020. Juiced ball or not, Alonso was baseball's best HR hitter last year, outhomering everybody with the same ball everybody else hadda hit. And Alonso didn't get any home field help, having to play half his games in Citi Field, a stadium that takes homers away from hitters. Plus, I read a study a few months ago where Alonso didn't get much help from the juiced ball. Alonso justs swings as hard as hell and he's already mastered the right angles to swing at to maximize HR output. Plus, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence in the form of Alonso's peers whispering among themselves that Alonso's already baseball's best HR hitter. So we'll see. I expect a decline in HR output, attributable more than anything else to the ever-swinging pendulum swinging back to pitchers, who"ll have figgered him out some in this tit for tat leapfrog game of baseball intelligence. I mean -- 53 HR's is hard to top, no matter whether you have your whole career ahead of you, or whether you're some Daniel Murphy, peaking late, with most of your career already behind you.

[Edgy MD]

A fall-off season? Surely. But somehow maintains his confidence through a July where his bat looks utterly dead and there are whispers of cutting his PT, and then, from mid-August to mid-September, is something like impossible-to-get-out.



.260 / .352 / .478 // .830, 32 HR, 99 RBI.

[Lefty Specialist]

Can't possibly duplicate last season, bur he'll be good enough. .260, 44 HR, 105 RBI.

[MFS62]

.275 - 45- 124. Those good hitters in front of him will set the table for those RBI.

2nd in MVP voting.

Later

[dgwphotography]

.280 - 40 - 120.

[Vic Sage]

.265/35/100