It’s that time of year, let’s see how we did on our bold predictions for the past season. Surely our generally overly optimistic takes turned out well given how the Mets’ season went, right? Right!?!

(No.)

This one was right in spirit, but not in specificity. Pete Alonso did indeed have a bounce back season, batting .272/.347/.524 in 709 PA, good for a 141 wRC+ which tied his 2022 mark for the second-best of his career. Baseball Prospectus’ DRC+ metric was even higher on Alonso’s 2025, a 144 mark that set a new career high.

Similarly, Statcast marked 2025 as Pete’s best season with a .399 xwOBA well above his previous career best (.380 in his rookie year in 2019) and which indicated he was actually significantly unlucky this season (caveat – Statcast predicted metrics are flawed since t

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