One of the best things about this time of year is diving into the numbers and learning something about a player you might have overlooked. Or in this case, a player the New York Mets would like to forget.
Baseball Savant's Hot Stove Dashboard is a great tool for taking a look at the Statcast data for the current free-agent class, and it should be no surprise that when it comes to hard hit rate, Pete Alonso ranks near the top. Alonso's 54.4% mark comes in third, behind only Kyle Schwarber and former New York Yankees sensation-turned-bust, Gary Sanchez.