Home runs can win you a baseball game. In the history of the New York Mets, they’ve been far more reliant on pitching than four-base hits. This doesn’t mean they have been void of home run champions.
The record for most home runs hit in a single-season by a Mets player is 41. It’s a shared title by Carlos Beltran and Todd Hundley. While it is a nice, solid, big number it’s not going to win too many home run crowns. Typically, the National League leader finishes the season with a few more, although, in the decade of the 2010s, we’ve already seen six seasons where this wasn’t the case.