3 NY Mets players who will be better in 2025, 2 who will be worse

Pete Alonso will take advantage of a fresh start after setting career-lows in major categories in 2024.

Pete Alonso's 2024 season will always be remembered for the memorable home run to knock out the Brewers in the Wild Card round and his overall performance in the postseason. What preceded was an underwhelming season clouded by his impending free agency and the chance to make more money. He returns to the Mets to bet on himself again in 2025.

Alonso is now invigorated for this season with a tiring free agency behind him, for now, and can focus on furthering his Mets legacy (27 home runs away from becoming the Mets' all-time home run career leader), and is projected to hit behind Juan Soto in the lineup.

Assuming Juan Soto gets on base at the high clip he gets on, he will have more chances to produce with runners on base. When Alonso bats with runners on base, Alonso has been better during his career. But that was not the case last year, hitting .215 in that split, which explains why he also had the fewest RBIs in a full season last year with 88. Chances are his situational numbers improve this season, and hence the overall potential of where the Mets can go in 2025.

Now that he hopefully learned the lessons of how teams evaluate players of his type in the 2020's, it's go-time for him.