Monday Stat Party: Four Sluggers and a Funeral

Welcome to the fifth edition of Monday Stat Party, a weekly series created to showcase the the most intriguing statistical happenings from the past week of Mets games.

Full disclosure: this edition isn’t much of a party. It feels more like a funeral, or perhaps a (Cincinnati) Red Wedding, where all fans should mournfully dress in black alternates and say a prayer to the baseball gods. Despite the incredible top-of-the-lineup quartet of Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Brandon Nimmo —

each of whom set more historic marks this week — the Mets somehow find themselves on the outside looking in at the 2025 postseason.

But even when the team collapses, the stat party never stops. This week, we form connections between Clay Holmes and Steve Trachsel, Pete Alonso and Félix Millán, and Nolan McLean and Nolan Ryan. This week, we learn what the 2025 Mets and the 1996 Rockies have in common. This week, we celebrate broken records rather than dwelling on broken hearts. So without further ado, let the stat party begin…

TUESDAY

With his game-tying three-run home run, Brandon Nimmo became the fourth Met this season to reach 25 homers, joining Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Francisco Lindor. It’s the first time in franchise history that the Mets have had four players hit 25 home runs in the same season, leaving the Pirates, Padres, Rays, and Nationals as the only teams yet to accomplish the feat.

Nimmo’s home run also represented his 968th career hit, moving him past Daniel Murphy for 12th on the Mets’ all-time hits leaderboard.

WEDNESDAY

The Mets committed an error for the sixth straight game. The only team to put together a longer streak in the second half was the Tigers, who suffered a similar late-season collapse alongside the Amazins.

THURSDAY

Francisco Lindor became the second Met this season to reach 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases, along with Juan Soto. Only two other teams in MLB history have had multiple players record 30/30 seasons: the 1987 Mets (Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry), and the 1996 Rockies (Dante Bichette and Ellis Burks).

Lindor also recorded the eighth 30/30 season in Mets history, extending the Mets’ record for the most of any MLB franchise. Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Juan Soto each have one, Howard Johnson has three, and Lindor now has two, making him just the eighteenth player in baseball history with multiple 30/30 seasons under his belt. 

After David Peterson and Jonah Tong struggled in the first two games of the series at Wrigley Field, Nolan McLean became the third consecutive Mets starter to allow five earned runs. The last time Mets starters allowed five earned runs on three consecutive days was April 3-5, 2023, with Carlos Carrasco, Max Scherzer, and Peterson getting bombarded in Milwaukee.

With a career-high eleven strikeouts against the Cubs, McLean became the third player in Mets history to reach 57 strikeouts through his first eight major league outings, joining Nolan Ryan (64) and Dwight Gooden (59).

FRIDAY

For the ninth time in his career, Sandy Alcantara completed at least seven innings while surrendering at most two earned runs against the Mets. Since Alcantara’s debut in 2018, no other pitcher in baseball has had more starts of that variety against the Mets. Aaron Nola sits in second place with seven such performances.

SATURDAY

With his ninth-inning walk, Juan Soto broke a pair of Mets franchise records. It was Soto’s 126th walk of the season, overtaking John Olerud’s previous single-season record of 125 set in 1999. It also gave Soto his 29th multi-walk game of the season, overtaking Keith Hernandez’s record of 28 set in 1986.

Pete Alonso tallied his 125th RBI of the season. Only one other time has a Met reached that mark: when Alonso did it himself in 2022, setting a franchise record with 131 RBI.

Alonso also hit his 32nd career home run against the Marlins, extending his franchise lead against Miami. The only Mets with more home runs against a single opponent are David Wright (36 against both the Phillies and Braves) and Darryl Strawberry (34 against the Pirates).

In his most pivotal start of the year, Clay Holmes turned in six scoreless, one-hit innings. He is just the seventh Mets right-hander over the age of thirty-two to put up at least 6.0 IP, at most 0 ER, and at most 1 H in a game, joining Tom Seaver, Kevin Appier, Steve Trachsel, R.A. Dickey, Jacob deGrom, and Max Scherzer.

SUNDAY

The Mets lost their 19th game in which they left 10 men on base, marking the most of any team in the majors this season.

The Mets used eight pitchers in a nine-inning game while allowing four runs or fewer for the first time in franchise history.

Pete Alonso’s gut-wrenching lineout to left field with the bases loaded was the hardest-hit ball from a Met in 2025, recording a 115.9 mph exit velocity. The last time Alonso hit a ball that hard was on June 5, 2024, when he was robbed of extra bases by the glove of a recent Mets nemesis: Nationals center fielder Jacob Young.

In what could be his final game as a Met, Alonso recorded 162 games played for the second consecutive season. Only two other Mets have played 162 games in a season: Félix Millán in 1975, and John Olerud in 1999. Matt Olson is the only player with a longer current streak of consecutive games played, having not missed a game across his four seasons with Atlanta.

Edwin Díaz, who could opt out of his contract this offseason, recorded his 267th scoreless appearance as a Met, tying him with Armando Benítez for the fifth-most in franchise history behind John Franco, Pedro Feliciano, Jeurys Familia, and Jesse Orosco. Díaz’s 144 saves currently rank third on the Mets’ all-time leaderboard behind Franco and Benítez.

Juan Soto finished the season with 43 home runs, 38 stolen bases, and 127 walks — a stat line that no one else has accomplished in baseball history. The only other players to record 40 home runs, 30 stolen bases, and 120 walks in a single season are Barry Bonds and Jeff Bagwell, who each did so twice in the same four-season span from 1996-1999.

With Pete Alonso and Juan Soto putting up monumental offensive seasons, the 2025 Mets became the first MLB team this decade to have two players record 300 total bases and not make the playoffs. Since 2000, only one National League team has missed the playoffs despite four players recording 300 total bases: the 2008 Mets, with Carlos Beltrán, Carlos Delgado, José Reyes, and David Wright.

The 2025 Mets also became the first National League team since the 2019 Cubs to miss the playoffs despite having four players hit 25 home runs. Since 2000, only one N.L. team has missed the playoffs with more 25-homer hitters: the 2017 Cincinnati Reds. Perhaps in the eyes of the baseball gods, this weekend’s events were some form of justice.

The Mets finished with an 83-79 record for the fifth time, making it the most common record in franchise history. The team has finished 83-79 in 1970, 1971, 1972, 2005, and now 2025, with four of those five seasons coming adjacent to NLCS appearances.

Miscellaneous Mets stat of the week:

David Wright hit 33 home runs in 3-2 counts over the course of his career. No other Met has hit more than 18, with Howard Johnson, Pete Alonso, and Francisco Lindor all tied for second place.