{"id":388711,"date":"2025-11-19T00:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388711\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:14:26","slug":"all-the-reasons-to-make-pete-alonso-a-lifetime-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388711\/","title":{"rendered":"All the reasons to make Pete Alonso a lifetime Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start with something we can probably all agree on, OK?<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso is not Tom Seaver.<\/p>\n<p>If Seaver had hurt his right arm in spring training of 1977 and been forced to retire after 10 seasons, he almost surely would have taken the Sandy Koufax route to the Hall of Fame: He\u2019d have been 182-107, with a 2.47 ERA and 2,334 strikeouts in that abbreviated version of his career. He\u2019d still have all three Cy Youngs. He\u2019d still be the key ingredient of the \u201969 Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso has been a superb Met his first seven seasons. Maybe in his next seven seasons he\u2019ll add another 236 homers to the 264 he already has, make it to 500. No \u201cclean\u201d player who\u2019s gotten to 500 in a career has ever been denied entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start with something we can probably all agree on, OK? Pete Alonso is not Tom Seaver. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,71333,179519,1305,3687,62,2632,2225,88558,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-mlb-free-agency","10":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-pete-alonso","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-steve-cohen","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115573480967409237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}