Hitting 30 home runs in a single year isn’t as easy as the juiced baseballs of 2019 would make you think. There are only 34 individual seasons of New York Mets players who accomplished this feat. Most recently, we saw Pete Alonso power his way over 50 and Michael Conforto reach the 30-club in 2019.
For the most part, I think an average Mets fan could come up with the names of players who ripped 30 out of the park. Even younger fans may be familiar enough with Frank Thomas and his 34 dingers in 1962.