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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 .
Gonzalez set the franchise mark with 224 home runs for the relatively young Diamondbacks, who joined the MLB as an expansion team in 1998. A late bloomer, “Big Papi” didn’t emerge as a big-time power hitter until his late 20s when he was signed by Boston after an uneventful six years with the Twins. Ortiz led the league with 54 home runs in 2006 and will be remembered as one of the most popular Red Sox players of all time. 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 .
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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. 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.
A three-time MVP Award winner, Pujols became the ninth member of the 600 home run club in 2017 when he swatted a grand slam off Ervin Santana. However, Pujols actually ranks second when it comes to home runs hit as a first baseman , trailing Mark McGwire . Pujols has crushed 115 homers as a DH, 64 as a left fielder, 24 as a third baseman, seven as a pinch-hitter and six as a right fielder. Mike Trout is the only franchise leader who can still pad his home run total because he’s an active player. Two-way phenom and teammate Shohei Ohtani already has 122 homers in his brief career and could threaten Trout's record. Joey Votto is one of the few active players who is second on his team’s all-time home run list.
Each team's all-time home run leader
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.
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.
Most single-season home runs, MLB
With a solid, supportive network of friends, Greg Gohr harnesses his natural ability and assembles a remarkable, 18-year career, rather than struggling through the remainder of the season and leaving baseball forever. Some think home runs hit by known PED users should be erased from the record books. But if we're prepared to do so, we should also be prepared to take a look at an alternate history, one in which these home runs were never hit.
Alex Rodriguez , Willie Mays , Ken Griffey Jr. , Jim Thome , and Sammy Sosa are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit of a fielding error. This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory , or by an inside-the-park home run. This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most home runs.
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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.
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 . 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.
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.
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.
Robinson burst onto the baseball scene with 38 home runs and a league-high 122 runs scored as a 20-year-old rookie with the Reds in 1956. He continued to be one of the game’s top power hitters for the next 15 years, though he led the league in homers only once . Hammerin’ Hank hit 755 homers in his career without hitting 50 in a single season and leading MLB only four times. A model of consistency, the Alabama native smacked at least 40 bombs in a season eight times, with a high of 47 in 1971.
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. 1010Hit a home run on the first pitch of his first major league at bat, the 22nd batter and the seventh pitcher to accomplish the feat. 2135Hit 11 home runs while playing various other positions and three as a pinch hitter. The first pitcher to officially hit a home run was Jack Manning, who accomplished the feat on August 3, 1876.
With three MVP Awards, 12 All-Star selections, 10 Gold Gloves and a World Series title, Schmidt did it all during his career, which was spent entirely with the Phillies. 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.
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