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Any player who played at least two-thirds of his career in the outfield qualified in the outfield spot at which he played the most. For instance, the great Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs in his career, yet he isn't the leading right fielder. Meanwhile, several players are first at their position with fewer than 450 homers.
The home run broke a tie with Roger Maris, giving Judge sole possession of the American League single-season record. Gonzalez also holds Arizona's single-season home run record of 51, which he hit in 2001. That was a special year not only for Gonzalez individually, but for the D-backs, as they won their first World Series title in a seven-game thriller over the Yankees. Gonzalez finished third in NL MVP Award voting that season and to cap off his year, he delivered a walk-offf single off Mariano Rivera in Game 7 of the World Series. Ironically, it was a broken-bat bloop to shallow center field over New York's drawn-in infield. Willie Stargell spent all 21 seasons of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates between 1962 and 1982.
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Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Warren Spahn are tied for second with 35 career home runs apiece. Red Ruffing, Earl Wilson, and Don Drysdale are the only other pitchers to hit at least 25 home runs. Jack Stivetts hit a total of 35 home runs in his playing career, 21 as a pitcher. Ferrell and Ruffing also rank among the top pitchers in batting average, hitting .280 and .269, respectively. Mays is one of just nine players to belt 50-plus homers in a season more than once, and in 1969 he became the second player in Major League history to hit 600 home runs, joining Ruth in accomplishing the feat. In his 22-year career, the Say Hey Kid smacked 660 homers, the most among center fielders.
The "Say Hey Kid" comfortably sits at the top of the Giants franchise mark for home runs. Willie Mays crushed 646 home runs in 21 seasons with the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants. Baseball purists are undoubtedly thrilled that Barry Bonds did not topple Mays' record; Bonds fell short of the mark with 586 home runs in a Giants uniform. The top five also includes Mel Ott , Willie McCovey , and Matt Williams .
MLB home run record: List of most career home runs, all-time HR leaderboard as Albert Pujols hits No. 700
He'll need a historic run in his final month of the season if he wants to catch Musial. Meanwhile, two active players in the twilight of their careers – Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera – are chasing down two legendary home run hitters. Pujols intends to retire at the end of this season and will likely fall just short of the all-time home run record with the St. Louis Cardinals, currently held by Stan Musial.
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. 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. 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.
Sammy Sosa – 609 home runs
His signature stat is a .401 batting average in 1941, and he remains the last man to hit .400 or better in a Major League season. He belted his first career home run on April 23, 1939, a year in which he won the AL Rookie of the Year Award after driving in an MLB-best 145 runs. Williams' 521st and final home run came in the final plate appearance of his storied career, a solo shot off the Orioles' Jack Fisher at Fenway Park on Sept. 28,1960. A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.
The heart and soul of the 1979 “We Are Family” Bucs, Stargell was named NL co-MVP with Keith Hernandez before going on to win both the NL Championship Series and World Series MVP Awards, all at age 39. Stargell fell short of the 500-homer mark, but he holds the Pirates’ franchise record by a wide margin over Ralph Kiner and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988. No surprise here, as Aaron spent 21 of his 23 seasons as a member of the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves franchise and hit most of his 755 home runs with the club. Early in his final season as a Brave, on April 8, 1974, the legendary slugger blasted the 715th homer of his career, breaking Babe Ruth’s all-time record. A model of consistency, Aaron crushed 30-plus homers 15 times, tied with Alex Rodriguez for the most in history. The first-ballot Hall of Famer now ranks second all time in homers, third in hits and first in RBIs .
That record stood for 34 years before another Yankee, Roger Maris, broke it in 1961. Overall, he hit 20 or more homers nine times in 10 seasons in a Rays uniform. 47Has hit 7 career home runs, but only 4 while playing in the pitcher position. While Lorenzen sometimes plays outfield, his other 3 home runs were as a pinch hitter. Lorenzen hit home runs on back-to-back nights against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2018—a solo home run as pitcher on June 29, and a grand slam as a pinch hitter on June 30. Wes Ferrell holds the all-time Major League Baseball record for home runs hit while playing the position of pitcher.
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.
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.
Reggie Jackson , Jose Canseco , and Bob Johnson round out the top five in the history of the three-city franchise. Brett set the franchise mark for the Kansas City Royals with 317 home runs, but there's one specific homer that stands out in one of the most bizarre situations in MLB history. The pine tar incident against the New York Yankees in 1983 might be Brett's most famous round-tripper.
Mickey Mantle is second overall for the Bronx Bombers with 536 homers, followed by other legends like Lou Gehrig , Joe DiMaggio , and Yogi Berra . "Mr. Tiger" holds the Detroit franchise record with 399 home runs between 1953 and 1974. Norm Cash came close with 373 home runs, followed by Cabrera in third place. The 39-year-old Cabrera has spent the last 17 seasons with the Tigers, but he said he'll play one more season in 2023 before hanging up the spikes.
Miguel Cabrera, who is under contract with the Tigers through 2023, could eventually leapfrog Kaline. The two-time AL MVP Award winner entered the 2020 season with 339 homers as a Tiger. When it comes to Senators/Twins home run hitters, no one is close to Killebrew, who spent 21 of his 22 seasons with the club and crushed 559 home runs in that time, 266 more than any other player in franchise history. The Hall of Fame slugger hit 40-plus homers in eight different seasons, tying him with Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Hank Aaron for the second most in Major League history behind Babe Ruth .
Notes From A History In Which Barry Bonds' Home Runs Were Never Hit
Piazza had nine career seasons with at least 30 home runs, more than double the total of any other catcher, and his personal best was 40, which he accomplished twice (1997, '99). Overall, the Hall of Fame backstop crushed 427 career homers in 16 seasons, with 396 of his long balls coming while he was playing the catcher position. Piazza also hit 18 homers as a designated hitter, eight as a first baseman and five as a pinch-hitter.
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