Beloved former NY Mets player has a stat that’ll punch fans right in the feels

Wilmer Flores is smashing home runs for the San Francisco Giants this year, keeping pace right alongside Pete Alonso as one of the most prominent sluggers in the league this season. The former beloved New York Mets player has a league-high 6 home runs and leads all of Major League Baseball with 23 RBI.

If you’ve been paying close attention to league leaders, this might not come across as much of a surprise. What might catch you a little off guard is something a little more under the radar achieved by Flores.

In six seasons with the Mets, Flores had 2,011 plate appearances. This past Tuesday, he stepped up to the plate for the 2,012th time for the Giants.

Wilmer Flores is officially more of a Giants player than a Mets player

Flores will always feel like more of a Mets player than a Giants one, but the facts say otherwise. He still has more games with the Mets, 581 versus 560 with the Giants coming into Thursday. In less than a month, he might surpass it.

As entrenched in the hearts of Mets fans Flores will forever remain, he has accomplished quite a bit more with the Giants. He already has more home runs, RBI, and is worth significantly more WAR. In 2020, 2021, and 2023 Flores was worth over the 1 WAR he was with the Mets in 2015 when he had his previous career-high. In fact, his 2.7 WAR performance in 2023 was worth more than his entire Mets tenure at 2.3 WAR.

One thing Flores still has connected to the Mets lacking with the Giants is a playoff round win. Flores has made only one trip with the Giants to the playoffs when the magnificently brilliant 2021 San Francisco team won the division then got eliminated in the NLDS versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. Flores was just 1 for 12 in the series.

Just because Flores has now stepped up to the plate more times with the Giants and is on his way toward playing more games for them than he ever did with the Mets doesn’t mean we can’t still feel like he’s forever one of us. Is Danny Devito any less Louie De Palma just because he became Frank Reynolds?