Pete Alonso is a terrific baseball player, and I don’t want this article to be seen as a hit job on him. He is, in many ways, today’s Sammy Sosa — one of the premier power threats in baseball, so adept at putting the ball over the fence that that alone may one day put him in the Hall of Fame, or at least the conversation therein.
But, Sosa was the third or fourth man in that great, late 90s run of hitters. From 1995 to 2001, he was better than Mark McGwire in just one season, 2001.