MLB home run record: List of most career home runs, all-time HR leaderboard as Albert Pujols hits No 700

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• New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles, preview, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch NFL this season
• List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
• MLB rumors: Yankees, Cardinals after Rodón
• MLB home run record: List of most home runs in a season, single-season leaders as Aaron Judge passes Maris
• MLB home run record: List of most career home runs, all-time HR leaderboard as Albert Pujols hits No. 700
• Barry Bonds – 762 home runs

Sammy Sosa played for four different teams, yet he’s most memorable for his 13 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, where he eclipsed "Mr. Cub", Ernie Banks, for the franchise home run record with 545 dingers. Banks sits in second place in Cubs history with 512, followed by Billy Williams , Ron Santo , and Ryne Sandberg . McCovey was one of the game’s elite first basemen throughout the 1960s.

He enjoyed a monster 2007 season in Cleveland, when he hit 52 home runs and led the league in slugging (.677) and OPS (1.122). David Wright came close to unseating Strawberry as the Mets' home run king, but injuries limited him to just 77 games and 12 homers after he turned 32. Atypically, a batter who hits a fair ball and touches each base in succession from 1st to home, without an error being charged to a defensive player, is credited with an inside-the-park home run. If, during a play, defensive or fan interference is called, and the awarded bases allow the batter to cross home plate, the batter is credited with a home run. For the purposes of this story, a player must have played at least two-thirds of his games at a position in order to qualify as its leader.

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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. These home runs were functions of box scores, and many of them turned a loss into a win. Sometimes, these wins accumulated to result in a playoff berth or a victorious playoff series. And if we're prepared to strike them from the record, we should also be prepared to take a look at an alternate history, one in which these home runs were never hit. While Stanton spent eight seasons in Miami, he needed just five to become the all-time franchise leader in homers.

Killebrew led the AL in six of those eight seasons, including 1969, when he won the league's MVP Award with an MLB-best 49 homers and 140 RBIs. Two years later, Killebrew became the 10th member of the 500 home run club. After spending a year with the Royals in 1975, Killebrew retired with 573 homers, now the 12th most all time. Bonds isn’t just the home run leader among left fielders, he’s the leader among all players, period. The superstar slugger hit 40-plus homers eight times, including a single-season record 73 in 2001, en route to 762 for his career. The next closest left fielder is Manny Ramirez with 555 homers, followed by Ted Williams with 521.

List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders

Stanton was a Marlin for only eight seasons and played fewer than 125 games in five of them, but the mammoth masher shattered the expansion franchise’s all-time home run record nonetheless. Stanton saved his best for last, slugging a single-season club record 59 homers and winning the NL MVP Award in 2017, his final year in Miami before being traded to the Yankees. Stan 'The Man' Musial is another Hall of Famer legend who spent his entire career with the same ballclub. Musial played for the St. Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons while missing one year near the start of his career due to WWII military service. Musial's franchise record has stood for nearly 60 years – and it should remain in place a while longer. Albert Pujols has hit 460 home runs and counting in a Cardinals uniform but is slated to retire at the end of the 2022 season.

This is especially startling precisely because nothing should be done, or, more accurately, nothing can be done without mutilating a document of historical record into a Facebook "rank your favorites" app. Zimmerman retired last season with a franchise-best in home runs, finishing well ahead of Vladimir Guerrero , who had previously held the record as a member of the Montreal Expos from 1996 to 2003. Ken Griffey had two stints with the Seattle Mariners at the start and end of his 22-season career. In total, he spent 13 years with the Mariners and led the franchise with 417 home runs. Teammates Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner also put up some strong numbers, but they both came up well short of challenging their Hall of Fame franchise-mate. Yankees slugger Aaron Judgeclubbed his 62nd home run of the season to rewrite baseball's history books Tuesday night against the Rangers.

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Ken Griffey Jr. came close to that mark but ultimately fell short, finishing with 630. Kent, Robinson Canó and Rogers Hornsby are the only three players to hit 300-plus homers while playing at least two-thirds of their games at second base. He earned National League MVP honors after hitting .334 with 33 homers, 125 RBIs and a 1.021 OPS in 2000. Pujols, the only positional home run leader who is currently active, has compiled 697 homers over 22 seasons in the Majors.

It's fitting that Ripken, the greatest Oriole of them all, is the all-time leader in home runs for the franchise. The Iron Man was not only dependable to be on the field, but also remarkably consistent with home runs, hitting 25 or more in eight of his first 12 full seasons. As it stands, Stan the Man’s 475 homers top the Cards’ leaderboard, as do his 3,630 hits, 725 doubles, 177 triples, 1,951 RBIs and 1,599 walks.

That said, the leader in home runs while actually playing right field isn’t Hammerin' Hank or the Great Bambino, but rather Sammy Sosa with 538. Aaron had 520 homers as a right fielder, 68 as a left fielder, 64 as a center fielder, 61 as a first baseman, 22 as a DH, six as a second baseman and three as a pinch-hitter. Pujols burst on the scene with 37 home runs as a rookie with the Cardinals in 2001 and he proceeded to hit at least 40 six times in his first decade in the big leagues. Pujols passed Willie Mays for fifth place on the all-time list in style with his 60th career multi-home run game on Sept. 18, 2020.

This also means, of course, that if these 6,162 baseballs had never been hit, they never would have needed to be manufactured. Regulation MLB balls are made of cow hide, and in terms of raw surface area, we get about 2,170 baseballs out of a cow. Working on this assumption, two cows and change needed to die for these home runs to be hit. According to the simulation I ran, the Braves sweep the Giants in the NLDS.

The seven-time MVP is also the all-time leader in walks and led the league in on-base percentage 10 times. After becoming the first Brewers player since Robin Yount to win an MVP Award in 2011, Braun flew past the Hall of Famer to claim sole possession of the franchise record with his 252nd career homer in 2015. A six-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger Award winner, Braun has continued to pad his total since then, crossing the 300-mark in 2017. In addition to holding the record for the longest consecutive games played streak at 2,632, Ripken is a member of the 3,000-hit club and had 431 home runs in his 21-year career.

This means that throughout the past 25 years, these 13 players have ensured that about 5% more kids have caught home run balls. Without these three home runs, the Orioles lose three games they would have otherwise won. As a consequence, the Yankees win the division and the Orioles play the Indians in the ALDS. We are not treated to that weird gut-punch gesture he did with Sammy Sosa that ESPN still plays seventeen times a day in slow motion.

Killebrew began his career with the Washington Senators in 1954 before the team relocated to the Twin Cities and rebranded as the Minnesota Twins in 1961. Cleveland has a long history of pro baseball in the city on Lake Erie. Jim Thome is the franchise's top slugger with 337 home runs, followed by Albert Belle and Manny Ramirez . If Ramirez never left Cleveland for the Boston Red Sox, he would've passed Thome.

Of the three hitters in MLB history with more than 700 home runs, two -- Aaron and Ruth -- primarily played right field. Ruth was the all-time home run king from 1920 until '74, when Aaron passed him with his 715th career homer. Aaron ended up with 755 long balls and held the career record until Bonds surpassed his total in 2007.

Per the simulation, the Astros fall to the Braves in the NLDS, three games to one. Giants reliever Robb Nen does not further damage his shoulder by pitching deep into the playoffs. He is able to rehab his rotator cuff and continue pitching for a few years, adding numbers to a career that was already worthy of Hall of Fame consideration, but was dismissed in his first year of eligibility. If you'd like to disregard a single home run by anyone, much less all of Bonds' 756 or all of A-Rod's 600, you ought to stick to your guns.