Mets’ Pete Alonso ranks sixth on MLB Network’s Top 10 first basemen for 2024
As they do every year, MLB Network released its Top 10 players at first base ahead of the upcoming season.
For the first time in the past few years, Mets slugger Pete Alonso finished shy of the top five, ranking as the sixth-best first baseman in baseball.
Freddie Freeman, Bryce Harper (now officially a first baseman), Matt Olson, Paul Goldschmidt, and Yandy Diaz ranked ahead of Alonso, according to the Shredder.
Alonso has been one of the best power hitters in baseball since taking the league by storm during a spectacular National League Rookie of the Year-winning 2019 campaign, in which he hit a league-leading and rookie record-setting 53 long balls.
While his average (.217) and on-base percentage (.318) dipped a bit this past season, he remained the steady middle-of-the-order bat in the Mets' lineup, cracking 46 homers (third-most in MLB) and picking up 118 RBI (second most in MLB).
Alonso recently signed a one-year, $20.5 million deal with the team to avoid arbitration, but as reported last week, the Mets and Alonso's camp have not discussed an extension this offseason -- so he is still set to hit free agency for the first time at the end of this year.
The rest of MLB Network’s list, from 7-10, went as follows:
