Kuhio Aloy’s path to the Mets comes with a family stamp on it. His father, Jamie Aloy, was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 48th round of the 1999 MLB Draft out of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and both of Jamie’s sons have turned baseball into a career path.
The older brother, Wehiwa Kapahulehua, played at the University of Arkansas and went to the Baltimore Orioles with the 31st overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, where he is one of their top prospects. Now Kuhio Kamakanawehiwamaikalewa has joined him in the pro pipeline after being drafted by the Mets.
Aloy grew up in Hawaiʻi and played at Henry Perrine Baldwin High School in Wailuku, overlapping with his brother there in 2022 before graduating in 2023. He then headed to Brigham Young University and spent one season with the Cougars, showing real pop in 52 games while hitting .269/.329/.447 with 9 doubles, 1 triple, 8 home runs, and 20 walks against 62 strikeouts, good for an 84 wRC+.
From there, he entered the transfer portal and landed at Arkansas, where the family reunion was back on. The season before, his brother had made the same move, and the two were teammates again under head coach Van Horn, who often batted them back-to-back.
That setup paid off more than once, with the brothers hitting back-to-back homers, going deep in the same inning, or driving each other in.
At Arkansas, Aloy took a clear step forward. In 61 games, he hit .317/.404/.539 with 15 doubles, 13 home runs, and 31 walks to 77 strikeouts, good for a 120 wRC+.
He also spent that summer with the Bourne Braves in the Cape Cod Baseball League while Wehiwa was being drafted and preparing to start his professional career in Delmarva. Aloy played 16 games for Bourne and hit .333/.463/.500 with 3 doubles, 2 home runs, and 12 walks to 16 strikeouts.
He had planned to stay longer, but a hand injury cut that stint short.
His junior year in 2026 was interrupted too. Aloy started 49 games in a row, including 35 at designated hitter and 14 in right field, before a broken hamate bone in his left wrist ended his season in late May.
The injury was likely suffered during an early at-bat against the University of Tennessee. Before that setback, he was hitting .293/.352/.486 with 8 doubles, 9 home runs, 5 stolen bases, and 15 walks to 48 strikeouts, which worked out to a 98 wRC+.
At 6’1”, 205 pounds, Aloy brings a simple, compact look at the plate. He stands square, keeps his hands high with the bat wrapped behind his head at 2:00, and uses only a slight leg lift.
There is very little load or weight shift in his swing, with most of the power coming from bat speed and torque. When he squares one up, the ball can fly.
With composite bats, he has produced 100+ MPH exit velocities, and Arkansas measured many of his 2026 home runs at 450+ feet.
The downside is the swing-and-miss that comes with it. Aloy posted a 25.8% strikeout rate across his two seasons with the Hogs and a 26.5% rate when his BYU year is included.
He does draw walks at a solid clip - 9.4% for his college career - but the strikeout-to-walk profile is still a little too high for a hitter who is not a major slugger. His 23.7% HR/FB rate shows he has squeezed plenty out of his power chances, yet he still has work to do getting the ball in the air more often.
The batted-ball profile backs that up: in 2026 he ran a 45.9% groundball rate, 25.6% line drive rate, and 28.6% flyball rate, and for his college career those marks were 42.1%, 24.9%, and 33.0%. That mix of strikeouts and grounders is a big reason he can be such a streaky hitter.
Defensively, Aloy does not offer much, which explains why so many of his games came at designated hitter. He is not a burner, moving with a slow, plodding gait that limits his range.
His arm is strong, though, and it might be enough for right field. He already carries his weight well and is fairly filled out, so he is not likely to grow into a body that pushes him off the outfield entirely.
Even so, given his current limitations, first base could end up making more sense.
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