Only one Mets position player has ever won the NL Rookie of the Year Award.
In 1983 the Baseball Writers’ Association of America selected Darryl Strawberry as their winner. That award boosted Strawberry’s confidence and gave Mets fans a boost of hope for the future.
Three short years later, the Mets and Strawberry were World Champions.
Could Pete Alonso and Brodie Van Wagenen’s Mets find the same kind of success Frank Cashen’s Mets achieved?
It also taught Strawberry a valuable lesson.
Strawberry offered these words of advice for Alonso, who dominated the 2019 rookie class, slugging 53 home runs, 30 doubles and driving in 120 runs for a Mets team that could not even make the playoffs, despite all of Alonso’s heroics.