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The Kansas City Royals were the last MLB team to watch one of their players surpass the 40-homer plateau, amd my goodness did Jorge Soler make it worthwhile. He set a new franchise record and led the American League in dingers for the 2019 campaign. Although the batting average didn’t change, Davis was constantly finding ways to improve in other areas of his performance for the Oakland Athletics. He’s not only among the franchise’s single-season home run leaders, but he’s also within the top 20 of the team’s all-time home run leaders.
Ruth set the Major League Baseball single-season home run record four times, first at 29 , then 54 , 59 , and finally 60 . Ruth's 1920 and 1921 seasons are tied for the widest margin of victory for a home run champion as he topped the next highest total by 35 home runs in each season. Maris' mark was broken 37 years later by both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa during the 1998 home run record chase, with McGwire ultimately setting a new record of 70. Barry Bonds, who also has the most career home runs, then broke that mark, setting the current single season record of 73 in 2001.
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Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League. Kiner's seven consecutive titles from 1946 to 1952 are also the most consecutive home run titles by any player. The slugging outfielder collected his 58th and 59th home runs in Milwaukee on September 18th.
He set a high bar for himself in terms of the fWAR (8.3) and wRC+ he produced, but he’s done a good job of continuing to put up solid numbers. Since his rookie season, Judge has never finished with lower than a 140 wRC+ and has enjoyed three different seasons of at least 4.5 fWAR. Whenever I think about this season from Stanton, I can’t help but immediately want to look at the numbers he put up following the All-Star break because they were insane. Prior to the midsummer classic, he slugged 26 homers with 58 RBI and 60 runs scored in 369 plate appearances. In 323 trips to the plate in the second half, he accumulated 33 home runs, 74 RBI, and 63 runs scored. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games).
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Even with calling The Bank his home park, Schwarber hit 25 of his 46 homers on the road. He also hit 29 before the All-Star break, nearly joining a group of sluggers to hit at least 30 before the midsummer classic. However, Voit did enjoy hitting at Yankee Stadium and was a much different hitter at home than he was on the road. In the Bronx, the first baseman posted a 1.193 OPS and 215 wRC+ with 16 home runs, while those numbers dropped to .693, 91, and six, respectively, as a visiting player. He put together a .948 OPS, 153 wRC+, and 1.8 fWAR in the process, which allowed him to secure his own top-10 finish in AL MVP voting for the first time in his career . His production was evenly distributed between the only two full months of the season, with 11 dingers in August and nine in September .
As the 2018 season was winding down, Pete Alonso hoped to make his big-league debut for the New York Mets as a September call-up. It’s just about impossible to say he didn’t deserve one since he slugged 36 home runs with 119 RBI between Double-A and Triple-A that year. The promotion never came, and there’s more than a reasonable chance he had a chip on his shoulder heading into Spring Training the following year. What’s interesting here is he absolutely pummeled every single pitch thrown his way. His ISO only dipped below .200 against one pitch, as well (.194 vs. changeups). Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762.
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He has found ways to elevate his game since debuting in 2019, and the sky seems to be the limit as he starts to put everything together. Well, if we really want to talk about a power surge during a shortened season, look no further than to what Luke Voit did for the New York Yankees. In 2019, he slugged 21 homers with 62 RBI over the course of 510 plate appearances. In less than half the number of plate appearances the following season , he out-homered himself with 22 and nearly drove in the same number of runs with 52. What’s interesting is that during those three specific seasons we just pointed out, many other things consistently got better each year. His fWAR went from 2.4 to 2.5 to 2.7, while his wRC+ went from 122 to 130 to 136.
All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. His two most powerful months came in August and September when he combined to hit 20 homers . He finished third in NL MVP voting, which is currently the highest finish of his big-league career.
It was his third season of at least 30 taters, but the first time he led the league in this category. Ozuna not only led the league in homers, but he was also at the top of the leaderboard in RBI and total bases . His teammate, Freddie Freeman, won his first NL MVP award, but the outfielder secured his first top-10 finish by placing sixth. That’s what happened to Carter, as he latched on with the New York Yankees for a short time in 2017, and he hasn’t made it back to the big leagues since.
That marked the 11th time he’s enjoyed a multi-homer performance in 2022. He had six such games in 2021 and seven performances like this during his 2017 Rookie of the Year campaign. The only thing he could’ve added here was appearing in the Home Run Derby again.
Well, whatever Alonso did worked because he not only made the New York Mets’ Opening Day roster, but he was also the starting first baseman and shattered just about everyone home run he could. Even when the homers technically didn’t count, he kept it coming in the Home Run Derby. In addition to breaking the rookie home run record, he also broke the Mets’ rookie and overall single-season record while winning the 2019 home run crown. Even though he slugged another 34 dingers with 105 RBI for the Cardinals in 2021, his stretch between 2015 and 2019 is something you see when looking at the stat pages of some Hall of Famers. He never compiled fewer than 110 RBI and enjoyed five straight years of 30-plus homers.
In Major League Baseball , a player in each league wins the home run title each season by hitting the most home runs that year. Only home runs hit in a particular league count towards that league's seasonal lead. Mark McGwire, for example, hit 58 home runs in 1997, more than any other player that year. He enjoyed two straight years of clobbering 30-plus dingers, with 2013 being the culmination of it all. He not only shared the NL lead for homers, but he also went to his only All-Star Game and won his only Silver Slugger award. This campaign was also the lone time he collected at least 100 RBI, which is a number he hit right on the dot in 614 plate appearances.
Through his first two years with the Rockies, he hit 28 home runs and collected 113 RBI in 981 plate appearances, which resulted in a combined fWAR of 4.4. In 2015, he out-performed all those metrics in just 665 plate appearances, slugging those 42 homers with 130 RBI while compiling 4.5 fWAR. Mark McGwire led the league in home runs 4 times including 52, 65, and record-breaking 70 home run seasons. His 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues.
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