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In what can only be described as a fitting twist for this particular era, the sidekick of the show got the final curtain call. No one matched Sammy Sosa's home run displays from 1998 to 2001. He was a personality who people were drawn to, one that seemed to elevate the game of baseball, even outside the confines of Wrigley Field. "Del Got It!" We stay north of the border for the ninth spot on this list, a lefty who would regularly wow the crowds at the Rogers Centre (then-SkyDome).
From his unique crouched stance, it almost looked like Jeff Bagwell was sitting in a chair, just waiting for the pitcher to release the ball. The Hall of Famer hit more than a few epic moonshots during the four seasons and launched a career-high 47 in 2000. Controlled violence would be the best way to describe Sheffield's swing.
Barry Bonds launched the most home runs in 2001, with 73 homers.
Mark McGwire led the league in home runs 4 times including 52, 65, and record-breaking 70 home run seasons. His 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues. Guerrero and Tatis could make more history by the end of this season if they lead their respective league in home runs. While eight players have won a league home run crown before turning 23, it’s never happened in both leagues during the same year.
Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times, three with the Texas Rangers and twice with the New York Yankees. Ken Griffey Jr. led the American League in home runs in four seasons during the 1990s, including three consecutively from 1997 to 1999. While A-Rod and Ernie Banks padded the number of 40-homer campaigns at the shortstop position , Tatis is just the fourth individual shortstop to hit 40 dingers in a season, joining those two and Rico Petrocelli. This list also includes Hall of Famers Mel Ott, Joe DiMaggio, Eddie Mathews and Johnny Bench, two-time MVP Juan Gonzalez and three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez.
'Sopranos' stars who have died
Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. Cleared payment cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab. 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. Babe Ruth was first or second in the American League in home runs for every season from 1918 through 1933 except 1922 and set the single-season home run record four times. There have been eight 40-homer seasons by catchers, with Perez’s total leading all backstops. Bench , Mike Piazza , Javy Lopez, Roy Campanella and Todd Hundley are the other catchers with at least one 40-homer season.
The pre-trigger wiggle followed a lighting-fast release of the hands that resembled speed typically reserved for Mike Tyson. Sheffield knocked six long balls for the Florida Marlins in 1998 before heading west to Los Angeles, raising doubts that Chavez Ravine was a pitchers' park. Compact mechanics from a compact frame was the name of the game for Brian Giles. After spending his final season with the Indians in 1998, Giles landed in Pittsburgh, where he would improve his power numbers with a consistent 35-plus home run display in the first three seasons. A unique batting stance—nonchalant, matching the personality—still supplied impressive power for the Braves' young centerfielder. One year removed from finishing fifth in the NL's Rookie of the Year voting, Jones went on a stretch where he hit 30 or more homers three of the next four seasons.
Yearly League Leaders & Records for Home Runs
More rarely, an inside-the-park home run occurs when the hitter reaches home plate while the baseball remains in play on the field. 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. The and seasons were the only other years that had two of the three, and there was never a year prior to 2021 in which a catcher and a second baseman or a second baseman and a shortstop both went deep 40-plus times. Semien is one of five second basemen (min. 50% of games played at the position) to hit 40-plus homers in a single season, along with Rogers Hornsby, Davey Johnson, Ryne Sandberg and Brian Dozier. This is the first time in MLB history that 3 players who had never previously had a 30-HR season all hit 45+ HR in the same year.
Of the four players to break Maris' record, one has since admitted to the use of performance-enhancing substances during his playing career and two others are both widely suspected to have used such substances as well. 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. A player has hit 50 or more home runs 42 times, 25 times since 1990. 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. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. An automatic home run is achieved by hitting the ball on the fly over the outfield fence in fair territory.
Carlos Delgado was a home run-hitting machine for the Blue Jays, smacking 38-plus long balls each of the four seasons. The Braves' switch-hitting star had one of the best four-year periods of any such stretch, of any era, between '98-'01. Chipper ignited Atlanta's offense and caused matchup headaches for the opposing staff.
The three players with 45-plus home runs this year -- Guerrero, Perez and Ohtani -- not only never reached 40 homers in a single season before 2021, they never hit 30, either. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). 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.
He belted home runs for the Oakland Athletics—only one season under 30—and, unlike many others during this stretch, walked more than he struck out. His most productive long-ball output happened during his AL MVP season in 2000 when he launched 43. The left-handed Burnitz ripped his way through those four seasons, with a consecutive run of 30-plus homers. The former Oklahoma State Cowboy hit 315 round-trippers in his 14-year career—nearly 45 percent of them occurring in the slammin' summers of '98 through '01. Become a Stathead today and run queries with our Season and Career Finders to see the best seasons in MLB history. Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times, the second most such titles in MLB history.
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