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Blazing fastballs, monster swings, and one sleepy dribbler: Some 2025 Mets highlights
💥 On the Mound
⚾️ 🔥 Ryne Stanek lights up the radar gun at 100.1 mph with a four-seam fastball on April 8. He was flaming that day—three more pitches touched 99.
⤵️ ⚾️ Kodai Senga floats in a 68.5 mph curveball on April 1. Sixteen of his pitches caused swings and misses—but not that slow breaker. It drifted outside for a ball.
💥 At the Plate
⚾️🔥 Pete Alonso drives one to right at 114.5 mph. He pulls up at second, lucky not to get a speeding ticket for the ball’s exit velocity. His bat was electric that day—he launched a 113.4 mph homer, ripped another double at 113.1, and even clobbered a lineout that jumped off the bat at 107.1.
⬇️ ⚾️ Francisco Lindor gets jammed and taps one at just 31.9 mph—an ultrasoft grounder—back to the pitcher. The throw to first beats him before his engine can even get up any steam.
⤴️⚾⤵️ Baseball’s a game of contrast with its missiles to dribblers and whiffs to weak contact, the only sport that swings so wide.
Data from Baseball Savant.
Pitchers Fear Juan Soto’s Bat
Of the 37 pitches thrown so far to Juan Soto, 26 have been outside the strike zone with eight of them low and away and nine high and inside. That shows the respect pitchers have for Soto’s bat.
Of those 17 pitches, Soto swung at and missed just one. Unfortunately, that was the strikeout pitch that Josh Hader threw in the ninth inning of the Mets opening game.
In 2024 with the Yankees, Soto’s OBP against sliders was .344. That was the 16th highest OBP on Baseball Savant among all batters who had been thrown at least 400 sliders. The best in MLB was Aaron Judge (.416) and on the Mets — J. D. Martinez (.299). Pete Alonso’s OBP on sliders was just .214, sixth lowest, while the MLB average OBP was .276.
All the data is from Baseball Savant.
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