Tonight, Pete Alonso hit his 25th game winning RBI of the season for the Mets.
Game winning RBIs was only an official MLB stat from 1980 to 1988. During that time, the most anyone had in a single season was Keith Hernandez, also of the Mets, with
24, in 1985.
It was retired as a stat because it was seen to be
too arbitrary, and not a great indicator of clutch hitting, which it was intended to indicate in the first place.
Yet attempts have been made to determine leaders in game winning rbi from
1957 to 2017.
Assuming those attempts have been correct, and no one had more from 2017 to 2021, only two players have hit more than Pete Alonso's 26 game winning RBIs since 1957 in a single season. Willie Mays (1962) and Joe Torre (1971) both had 27.
I'm hoping Pete Alonso beats them both. Even if it is a pseudo-stat.