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All those 60-homer seasons helped Sosa climb up the leaderboards in short order and be among the most home runs all time in MLB history. Over a 12-year span between 1993 and 2004, the slugger accumulated 537 of those 609 career dingers. He hit fewer than 33 homers in a season just once during this span. It happened during the strike-shortened season of 1994 when he hit 25 homers.
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. 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. One of the top sluggers of the 1990s, Gonzalez crushed 40-plus homers five times from '92-98, leading the Majors twice ('92, '93) and winning two MVP Awards ('96, '98) in that span. Gonzalez had another 39 homers in 1999 before Texas traded him to the Tigers in a nine-player blockbuster.
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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. 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. An automatic home run is achieved by hitting the ball on the fly over the outfield fence in fair territory.
He made sure to show up in the World Seriesas well, which the Yankees reached plenty of times during his career. After hitting 13 round-trippers in 96 games as a rookie, Mantle registered 11 consecutive seasons with at least 20 homers. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, his last eight seasons within this streak were 30-plus homer campaigns. David Ortizplayed the field on the rare occasion where the Boston Red Sox wanted his bat in the lineup during an interleague game. So, it was important for Big Papi to pick up the slack by raking at the plate. He never won an AL MVP award but finished within the top-10 of voting seven times.
Albert Pujols* – 677 home runs
Alright, we have a three-way tie for the 20th most home runs all time. So, I’m going to provide one cool fact or stat about each ballplayer. In addition to being Cleveland’s single-season home run record holder, he’s also the franchise’s all-time home run leader. Sure, he was a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2018 after getting 89.8% of the vote, but I think he deserves more love. It could potentially be the curse of being a first baseman, a position that typically doesn’t get the kind of love it should. He did finish his career with an MLB-record 13 career walk-off homers, which you can see above.
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. 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).
Albert Pujols has 700 career home runs -- let's look at the all-time numbers
Nevertheless, Soriano owns MLB’s single-season record with 13 leadoff homers for the 2003 Yankees. He also hammered another dozen with the 2007 Cubs (as part of his franchise-best 22 with Chicago) and nine more with the Nationals a season before that. Henderson’s single-season high in this category came when he hit nine with the Yankees in 1986, which also was the year he totaled a career-high 28 homers, a number he matched with the A’s in 1990. 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.
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Once he got traded to the Baltimore Orioles in 1966, he immediately made a good first impression by winning AL MVP honors. Mathews was a consistent power hitter for the Milwaukee Braves in the '50s and early '60s, hitting at least 30 home runs nine straight seasons. He led the league twice, with 47 in 1953 and 46 in '59, and was a 12-time All-Star. 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.
"It's an honor to be part of the first MLB home run derby taking place in Korea," Lee said. "I am looking forward to putting on a memorable show for baseball fans in Korea. I am going to do my best to prepare for this event." Can he get hot before riding off into the sunset and eclipse 700 dingers? This was obviously a catalyst to him being among the most home runs all-time in MLB history. With numbers like these, it’s not surprising that Killebrew is the Twins’ all-time home run king by avery comfortable margin. Unsurprisingly, he’s also the Atlanta Braves’ all-time home run king.
He played his entire 18 years with the Phillies and was named NL MVP on three occasions. In Major League Baseball, the average number of home runs per player per season has varied widely over the years. In the early years of the sport, players averaged around one home run per season. In the live-ball era, which began in 1920, the average rose to around five home runs per season. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the average climbed to more than 10 home runs per season. In recent years, the average has been around eight home runs per season.
Players in bold face are active as of the 2022 Major League Baseball season. Kim, who played until 2020, one of just two players in KBO history with at least a .300 batting average, 2,000 hits, 300 home runs, 1,000 RBIs and 1,000 walks. 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).
Another three-time MVP winner, Jimmie Foxx put together some video-game numbers during his 20-year big-league career. What stands out about those RBI performances is the sheer number of runs he drove in. During the latter portion of his career , he put together a stretch of nine consecutive years with at least 38 dingers per season.
McCovey was one of the game’s elite first basemen throughout the 1960s. He led the league in home runs three times, highlighted by his MVP season of 1969 when he hit .320 with 45 home runs and 126 RBIs. Arguably the least well known of any player on this list, Thome was a potent power source for the Indians, Phillies and White Sox from the late 1990s through mid-2000s. 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). The popularity of home runs in Major League Baseball has increased, as have the percentage of hits that result in home runs.
He honestly could have ridden off into the sunset after winning the 2011 World Series and still be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. All the other stats and milestone homers Pujols has accumulated along the way certainly won’t hurt his case, though. Although Aaron did win a World Series in 1957, baseball fans didn’t get to see Hammerin’ Hank in the postseason much. He appeared in back-to-back Fall Classics in ‘57 and ‘58 and then appeared in the 1969 NLCS.
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