{"id":75015,"date":"2024-05-30T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=75015"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:30:48","slug":"pete-alonso-avoids-fracture-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/30\/pete-alonso-avoids-fracture-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe It Or Not, The New York Mets Received Some Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a disastrous Wednesday, the New York Mets received some good news on Thursday. Per reporters, including Andy Martino of SNY, A CT scan on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alonspe01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Alonso<\/a>&#8216;s right hand came back negative, meaning there is no fracture in his finger.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinonyc\/status\/1796209964354076906<\/p>\n<p>Alonso was visibly in pain after getting hit with a mid-90s fastball by Dodgers pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paxtoja01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Paxton<\/a>. Though he walked to first base, he immediately left the game with trainers. But with Thursday&#8217;s news, it seems the Mets and Alonso dodged a bullet as the first baseman is considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n<h2>New York Mets Receive Positive Update on Pete Alonso&#8217;s Finger Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Alonso leaving the game came less than an hour after the team placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazed04.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/29\/mets-edwin-diaz-injured-list\/\" target=\"_self\">on the injured list with a shoulder impingement<\/a>. The thought of also losing Alonso would have been just another blow to the Mets in what has been an awful May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Alonso is coming out of the game after being hit by a pitch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4U5SvMwlNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4U5SvMwlNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SNY (@SNYtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNYtv\/status\/1795913275231604842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though injuries are never a positive development, Alonso might benefit from missing a few games. The slugger has struggled this season, hitting just .231\/.308\/.453 with 12 homers. He hasn&#8217;t been awful, as evident by a 122 OPS+ and good walk\/strikeout rates.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has not provided the offensive thump that he has in the past. Alonso&#8217;s Hard-Hit percentage, Average Exit Velocity, and Ground Ball percentage are at career-low rates. The Mets need at least one star to step up and produce. Despite the great OPS+, Alonso&#8217;s production is certainly part of New York&#8217;s problem. Perhaps taking a couple games off to rehab his finger will provide a mental and physical reset.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drafted in 2017 in the 2nd round as a 17-year-old.<br \/>Four full seasons in the Minors. <br \/>Couple short MLB stints in &#39;22 and &#39;23<\/p>\n<p>Great to see Mark Vientos starting to find himself at the MLB level.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HT05GtEufw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HT05GtEufw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Farm To Flushing (@FarmToFlushing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarmToFlushing\/status\/1794170339691573255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Alonso out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vientma01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Vientos<\/a> will see the lion&#8217;s share of time at first. Like Alonso, Vientos is a bat-first righty slugger. And while he came up as a third baseman and has limited experience at first, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza appears comfortable with him filling in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel good [having him play first base],&#8221; Mendoza said. &#8220;He\u2019s played there before; he\u2019s had reps and I feel comfortable if we need to. We have to wait for Pete first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 44 plate appearances this year, Vientos has produced a 187 OPS+ with three homers and a .300\/.364\/.625 slash line. Though Alonso isn&#8217;t expected to miss much time, Vientos will have a chance to cement his spot in the lineup with solid production.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: <em>Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a disastrous Wednesday, the New York Mets received some good news on Thursday. Per reporters, including Andy Martino of SNY, A CT scan on Pete Alonso&#8216;s right hand came back negative, meaning there is no fracture in his finger. https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinonyc\/status\/1796209964354076906 Alonso was visibly in pain after getting hit with a mid-90s fastball by Dodgers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":75033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1071,35],"tags":[1378,2402],"class_list":["post-75015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mets","category-mlb","category-news","tag-mark-vientos","tag-pete-alonso"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}