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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.
Within this incredible season-long performance — which was the second-most homers in Padres history — he also hit one of the longest home runs of the season. How can we be sure that Chris Carter’s calling card was hitting tanks? Well, he’s one of those ultimate examples of three true outcomes, as he slugged 158 home runs over eight years, along with producing an 11.5% walk rate and 33.3% strikeout rate. Although some of his performances with Colorado didn’t include a huge discrepancy between his home and road splits, this year was not one of them. But for the second straight year, he led the league in both categories.
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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 .
Although he’s never won MVP honors, Goldschmidt has compiled five top-10 finishes, with three of them being in the top three. The 6.0 fWAR he produced in 2013 is the second-highest single-season total of his career and one of four times he’s gotten it above 5.0. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. Baseball is truly blessed right now when it comes to the number of young and elite players at shortstop. Fernando Tatís Jr. – the 23-year-old superstar who will likely re-write San Diego Padres record books – is very much a part of this group.
MLB Home Run Leaders Since 2013
Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. Sammy Sosa led the National League in home runs twice, with 49 and 50, but finished second four times with home run counts of 36, 66, 63, and 64. Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times, the second most such titles in MLB history. Babe Ruth was first or second in the American League in home runs for every season from 1918 through 1933 except 1922 and set the single-season home run record four times. Become a Stathead today and run queries with our Season and Career Finders to see the best seasons in MLB history.
Players in bold face are active as of the 2022 Major League Baseball season , with the number in parenthesis designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2022 season. The last change in the cutoff for the top 300 occurred on September 11, 2022, when Eugenio Suarez hit his 223rd career home run, displacing Jason Bay and Don Mattingly. Aaron Judge put together possibly the most dominant contract years ever, and it’s been one of the most powerful displays we’ve seen in quite a while. The last time someone hit this many homers in a season, it was Judge’s teammate, Giancarlo Stanton, in 2017 when he hit 59 dingers. WhenKyle Schwarber signed with the Phillies, many drooled over the mere thought of him hitting dingers in Philadelphia. After all, he’d be playing half his games in a hitter-friendly Citizens Bank Park.
He didn’t take home Rookie of the Year or MVP honors yet, but he’s won two Silver Slugger awards for his offensive efforts in 2020 and 2021. He’ll get himself to that MVP award at some point, one would imagine, as he’s already gotten two top-five finishes under his belt. After getting a 95-plate-appearance cup of coffee with the Yankees in 2016, he came right back to lead the league in home runs , runs scored , and walks in his AL Rookie of the Year campaign. He also went to the All-Star Game, won a Silver Slugger award, and placed second in AL MVP voting to Jose Altuve in what was one of the most powerful seasons in Yankees history. Although Giancarlo Stanton played in at least 100 games six times over his first seven years, we were still waiting for him to stay healthy consistently. The 2014 season was one of those times, as he tied his career-high in homers with 37 bombs.
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.
He won his first Silver Slugger Award and placed second in NL MVP voting to Clayton Kershaw. The outfielder never hit more than eight homers in a single month, but he reached that number three separate times . He also hit the majority of his homers in the not-so-hitter-friendly confines of Marlins Park. An automatic home run is achieved by hitting the ball on the fly over the outfield fence in fair territory. More rarely, an inside-the-park home run occurs when the hitter reaches home plate while the baseball remains in play on the field.
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.
The 1998 and 2001 seasons each had four players hit 50 or more home runs – Greg Vaughn, Ken Griffey Jr., Sosa, and McGwire in 1998 and Alex Rodriguez, Luis Gonzalez, Sosa, and Bonds in 2001. A player has hit 50 or more home runs 42 times, 25 times since 1990. The lowest home run total to lead a major league was four, recorded in the NL by Lip Pike in 1877 and Paul Hines in 1878. It was a career year for Trumbo in many aspects – he earned his second All-Star Game selection and first Silver Slugger award.
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