1)  Shortly after graduating from Acosto High School in his native Venezuela, Edgardo Alfonzo was signed by the New York Mets as a non-drafted free-agent on February 19, 1991.  In his first season in the Mets' minor-league system, Alfonzo batted .331, was named as a Gulf Coast League All-Star and won the Doubleday Award as the MVP of the Mets' rookie league squad.  

2)  In 1992, Alfonzo was promoted to Single-A and continued to excel.  He led the New York-Penn League in batting (.356) and was named to the circuit's All-Star team.

3)  Alfonzo jumped from Double-A in 1994 to the big leagues in 1995.  He made his major league debut pinch-hitting on April 26th in a game against the Colorado Rockies.  The game, which happened to be the first ever game played at Coors Field, was won by the Rockies in extra-innings.

4)  His first hit did not come until May 2nd when he collected a double and an RBI in a 9-6 loss to the Expos.  He became the 100th third baseman in team history in the contest.  Four days later he collected his first major league home run when he hit an inside-the-park shot against the Reds.  He finished his rookie season batting .278 with four home runs and 41 RBI's.

5)  After a lackluster 1996 campaign when he hit just .261, he rebounded in 1997 as he finished the year with a .315 average, 10 home runs and 72 RBI's.  He finished 13th in the MVP voting that year thanks to his .417 average, four home runs and 60 RBI's collected with runners in scoring position.  He also batted .395 during a career-high 20-game hit streak.

6)  Alfonzo hit his first major league grand slam in the 1997 season on August 14th against Donovan Osborne and the Cardinals.  On May 14th, he tied a major league record by participating in four double plays as a third baseman (eighth player in history).  The last time the same feat was accomplished was in 1989 by the Angels' Jack Howell.

7)  After seeing his home run total increase to 17 in 1998, he set a career-high in 1999 hitting 27 home runs and finishing the season with a .304 batting average, 123 runs scored (a franchise record) and 104 RBI's.  He had a game to remember on August 30th against the Astros going 6-for-6 with three home runs, a double, six runs scored and five RBI's in a 17-1 rout.  Alfonzo won the NL Silver Slugger Award at second base.

8)  Alfonzo got his first taste of playoff action in 1999.  He homered in his first at-bat in Game 1 of the NLDS against Randy Johnson.  In the ninth inning of the same game with the score tied 4-4, he hit a grand slam (first in Mets playoff history) and became the first player in major league history to hit a grand slam in their first playoff game.  Alfonzo would later hit a solo home run off former Halo Brian Anderson in Game 4 to help send the Mets to the NLCS where they would lose in six-games to the Braves.

9)  Edgardo Alfonzo proved that 1999 was not a fluke as he had a career year in 2000 hitting a career-high .324, clubbing 25 home runs, driving in 94 and scoring 109 times.  He was named to the NL All-Star team for the first time in 2000.

10)  The Mets made it back to the postseason in 2000.  Alfonzo hit .278 with a home run and five RBI's in the NLDS against the San Francisco Giants as the Mets won the series in four games.  In the NLCS against the Cardinals, he hit .444 and drove in four runs to send the Mets to the World Series to face the Yankees.  Alfonzo and the Mets struggled in the Series, losing to the Yankees in just four games.  Alfonzo hit just .143 in the series with one RBI.  His 0-for-4 performance in Game 3 snapped his 13-game post season hitting streak (which tied a club record).

11)  Alfonzo was slowed by a back problem in 2001 that affected his production.  His batting average slipped to a career-worst .243.  He was still able to hit 17 home runs, but he only drove in 49 runs.  He tied a franchise record by homering in four-straight games April 23-26.

12)  In 2002, Alfonzo was moved from second base to third where he had not played since 1998.  Alfonzo continued to play great defense as he committed only 12 errors at the "hot corner".  Alfonzo collected his 1,000th career hit on April 13 and his 1,113rd career hit on August 30th, which moved him past Mookie Wilson into 3rd place on the Mets' all-time hit list.  A few weeks earlier in the season Alfonzo moved into sole possession of fourth place on the team's all-time RBI list with his 522nd RBI, passing Cleon Jones.  Alfonzo finished the season batting .308 with 16 home runs.

13)  In 2003, Alfonzo signed with the Giants and struggled early at the plate.  He finished with a .259 batting average and hit just 13 home runs, but did mange to drive in 81, in his first season as a Giant.  He got hot after the All-Star break hitting .306 with eight home runs and 54 RBI's after the break to help the Giants win the NL West.  In the NLDS against the Florida Marlins, Alfonzo hit .529 with four doubles and five RBI's in a quick four game post season for the team.  He had multi-hit efforts in the first three games of the series, including a 4-for-5 effort in Game 3.  In his post season career, Alfonzo owns a .299 batting average, four home runs and 22 RBI's in 28 games. 

14)  In 2004, Alfonzo started the season slowly again batting just .163 over his first 12 games.  He then caught fire to hit .300 in his final 127 games to finish the season with a .289 average while hitting 11 home runs and driving in 77 runs.  His season highlights came in back-to-back games against the Red Sox in mid-June.  He drilled a two-run pinch-hit home run in the eight inning off Alan Embree to give the Giants a 6-4 win on June 19th.  The following game, Alfonzo broke a scoreless tie with a 7th-inning grand slam off Mike Timlin to give the Giants a 4-0 victory.  Two days later he collected six RBI's in a game against the Dodgers.

15)  Alfonzo got off to a hot start in 2005 batting .359 with eight doubles, two home runs and 15 RBI's in April.  Alfonzo suffered a left quad strain in June that put him on the disabled list.  After his return, he batted just .241.  He still finished second on the team with a .327 batting average with runners in scoring position (bringing his lifetime mark to .313).  He finished the season batting .277 with two home runs and 43 RBI's.  His season highlight was stealing home against Arizona on September 30th.