
What does this mean for the NL Rookie of the Year race?
Major League Baseball fans have loved watching Tatis all season long, whether it was his 6 (yes SIX) leadoff home runs or leaping 5 feet into the air to rob a hit from Jesus Aguilar or tagging on a lazy pop-up to second base in Pittsburgh.
Fernando Tatis Jr. is one of the most exciting players in baseball pic.twitter.com/RJYnwXoPq6
— Baseball Bros (@BaseballBros) August 9, 2019
But they will only be able to watch his highlights now because he is on the shelf. Mets fans are delighted with the injury because Alonso is a slam dunk to win the award since he plays in New York and has 30 home runs (Tatis only has 8 less).
Mets first basemen Pete Alonso and Tatis have been competing for the National League Rookie of the Year award all season long.
Alonso has been only hitting homers all year, but in addition to hitting homers, Tatis has been making spectacular plays in the field and taking any base he can when you aren’t paying attention.
Fernando Tatis Jr. went ALL THE WAY 🆙 #SCtop10
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 13, 2019
(via @Padres)pic.twitter.com/BnFnfPJS0y
Here is a comparison of their years, with the better stat in bold.
Pete Alonso Fernando Tatis
Average .264 .316
OBP .369 .379
OPS .965 .969
HR 30 22
K 132 110
As you can see Tatis has clearly had a better season, and the MLB is greatly going to miss him because he gave them highlight plays every single night on both sides of the ball.
Now that Tatis is likely to miss the rest of 2019, Alonso will win the Rookie of the Year, but there will be an asterisk because his greatest competitor was hurt.