Aaron Altherr announced his arrival as a Met with a bang before going out with a long, extended whimper. Altherr was claimed off of waivers from the Giants by a Mets team in desperate need of outfield depth on May 23. Altherr had spent two weeks in San Francisco, where he had one at bat with the Giants, who had claimed him off waivers just two weeks earlier from the Phillies. In those two stops, Altherr combined to hit a robust .033 (1-30).
So of course, in his first plate appearance as a Met on May 24, Altherr came up to pinch hit in the bottom of the sixth and launched a clutch pinch hit home run deep over the Great Wall of Flushing.