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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 . 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.
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. The controversial Bonds — who is not in the Hall of Fame — sits atop the list for most home runs in a career and most in a single season . The seven-time MVP is also the all-time leader in walks and led the league in on-base percentage 10 times. 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.
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But Ruth is a fitting answer here given that he was the first great home run hitter in baseball history, revolutionizing the game after joining the Yankees in 1920. The Sultan of Swat belted more than 40 home runs 11 times in his 22-year career, and hit more than 50 four times, including a 60-homer campaign in 1927. 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.
Banks was perhaps the best player in the game in the late 1950s, earning back-to-back NL MVP Awards in 1958 and ’59 while playing the demanding position of shortstop. He hit a total of 92 home runs with 272 RBIs during that stretch while leading the league in games played both seasons. 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.
Ken Griffey Jr. – 630 home runs
By his fifth season with the New York Mets, Darryl Strawberry had passed Dave Kingman to set the all-time franchise home run mark. Pete Alonso, who hit 53 home runs as a rookie in 2019, is seventh on the Mets all-time list with 137 home runs and counting in just four seasons. He needs just 116 more to pass Strawberry and is expected to break the franchise record if he can remain with the Mets through the end of the decade. Snider began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and smacked 43 home runs in 1956. He migrated with the team to the west coast in 1958 and spent five more seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he set the franchise record. The top five sluggers in Dodgers history include Gil Hodges , Eric Karros , Roy Campanella , and Ron Cey .
It took nearly six decades for that record to fall, with McGwire passing Foxx in 1992. Reggie Jackson , Jose Canseco , and Bob Johnson round out the top five in the history of the three-city franchise. Delahanty and Horner are the only players to hit four home runs in a game as a part of a losing effort. In 1997, he led Major League Baseball in home runs, but led neither the American nor National League, as his season was split between the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. If that season were to be included, he would be the league leader for five seasons, four of which were in succession.
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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. 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. Had Mickey Mantle stayed healthy throughout his career, he certainly would've challenged Ruth's mark. Lou Gehrig certainly would have as well, the way he was slugging prior to his tragic death as a result of the disease that bears his name .
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. The following is a chronology of the top ten leaders in lifetime home runs in Major League Baseball. Out of everyone on this list, Nate Colbert is the only player I had to look up. Colbert played first base and left field for the Padres between 1969 and 1974.
Career Leaders & Records for Runs Scored
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. Cabrera, from the Detroit Tigers, will retire at the end of the 2023 season, which gives him a better opportunity to pass Al Kaline for the franchise record. It's one of the most revered, yet controversial, records in all of sports.
To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. Considered by some to be the best third baseman of all time, Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times during one 15-year stretch. He played his entire 18 years with the Phillies and was named NL MVP on three occasions. 44Hit a home run as one of his two third-inning hits against the Braves on July 18, 2019. He was only the fifth pitcher in the last 50 years to record two hits in the same MLB inning. The first pitcher to officially hit a home run was Jack Manning, who accomplished the feat on August 3, 1876.
The third baseman led the NL in homers eight times and hit 30-plus dingers in 13 seasons en route to 548 altogether. That included four against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on April 17, 1976, as Schmidt became the 10th player in big league history to go deep four times in a game. 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 .
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. He'll need a historic run in his final month of the season if he wants to catch Musial.
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. Stargell broke in with the Pirates as a 22-year-old in 1962 and spent the next two decades with the team, earning seven All-Star selections and helping Pittsburgh win two World Series titles ('71, '79). Stargell had two seasons with 40-plus homers during his career, leading the Majors with 48 in 1971 and doing so again two years later with 44. 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.
This is evident when looking at the all-time home run leaders at each spot on the diamond. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. 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 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues. 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. Although he moved to third base in 1997, the Iron Man played over three-quarters of his games at shortstop and is well ahead of the next-closest player for the positional home run lead. Pujols, the only positional home run leader who is currently active, has compiled 697 homers over 22 seasons in the Majors.
Longoria set the Tampa Bay Rays home run mark during his first ten seasons in the majors between 2008 and 2017. That's a record that could remain intact for a while because the Rays typically trade away their top young players instead of paying them lucrative contracts to stay with the team. Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs over his remarkable career, the majority of which came with the Yankees. The modern Yankee Stadium is much smaller than the original stadium (aka "the House That Ruth Built"), but Ruth's franchise HR record could be one of those unbreakable records.
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