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Gators great Pete Alonso wins National League Player of the Month

On3 imageby: Keith Niebuhr05/03/25On3Keith
Pete Alonso
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The Polar Bear is hot at the plate. Red hot. And because of it, Florida Gators great and current New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso was named National League Player of the Month for March/April. And he was a no-brainer choice for the award.

Wrote MLB.com on May 2: “Alonso has emerged as a more complete hitter than at any time in his six previous MLB seasons. He leads the NL with a .475 on-base percentage and ranks second with a .342 average, and his 1.124 OPS is second in baseball behind only (Aaron) Judge. Coming into Friday, Alonso has reached base safely in 13 straight games and is tied for second in baseball with 19 extra-base hits.”

“He’s so deserving of that, Player of the Month,” teammate Brandon Nimmo told MLB.com. “It’s just another exclamation mark on all the work he’s done this offseason. It seems like he’s in an amazing spot to me. It’s not just a flash in the pan. This is sustained success.”

Alonso won the award Friday afternoon. That evening, he hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the fifth inning in a 9-3 victory over St. Louis. Behind Alonso’s play, the Mets are 22-11 and sit in first place in the NL East.

Some of Alonso’s numbers thus far in 2025 are a bit surprising. His best season batting average is .271 and his career average is .252. Last year, he hit only .240. The season before, he batted .217.

But in 2025, Alonso not only is hitting .345, his on-base percentage is through the roof and so are his slugging and OPS numbers (see below). Meanwhile, his strikeouts are down significantly. “It’s not doing something new,” Alonso told MLB.com. “It’s just cleaning up and making things more efficient that makes things like that happen.”

Alonso currently ranks third in the NL in batting average, third in RBI and second in OPS.

Pete Alonso’s numbers this season are attention-getters

YrABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGOPS
’195971031553025312072183.260.358.583.941
’2020831486016352461.231.326.490.817
’2156181147273379460127.262.344.519.863
’22597951622704013167128.271.352.518.869
’23568921232124611865151.217.318.504.821
’2460891146310348870172.240.329.459.788
’2511623401118302422.345.473.6641.136
CAR32555168211538234616382844.252.345.520.864

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