Major League Baseball has named New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso National League Player of the Week for the week of April 8th to April 14th after crushing .429, four home runs and seven RBI with a .556 OBP and 1.603 OPS, today SNY Mets announced on X.
For the season thus far, Alonso, 29, has hit .271, smacked six longballs, drove in 10 runs and scored 13 runs to go along with a .593 SLG. and .951 percentages in 59 at-bats through the first 15 games of the 2024 campaign.
Alonso, a Tampa, Fla., native, is two dingers away from reaching 200 career homers in his sixth season in MLB.
The Mets picked Alonso–who captured the 2019 National League Rookie of the Year honor after belting 53 longballs, a MLB rookie record–in the second round of the 2016 MLB Amateur Draft out of the University of Florida.
— Jerry Del Priore
NY NJ Sports World/Brooklyn Sports World 
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