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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.
Sammy Sosa played for four different teams, yet he’s most memorable for his 13 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, where he eclipsed "Mr. Cub", Ernie Banks, for the franchise home run record with 545 dingers. Banks sits in second place in Cubs history with 512, followed by Billy Williams , Ron Santo , and Ryne Sandberg . Cal Ripken holds the MLB record for most consecutive games played, but he also holds the Baltimore franchise record with 431 home runs for the Orioles. Hall of Famer Eddie Murray is second on the Orioles' home run list with 343 long balls. 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.
This is each position's top home run hitter
The 18-time All-Star never reached the 30-homer plateau in a season, but he finished with a total between seven times. 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. As it stands, Stan the Man’s 475 homers top the Cards’ leaderboard, as do his 3,630 hits, 725 doubles, 177 triples, 1,951 RBIs and 1,599 walks. A 24-time All-Star, three-time MVP and seven-time batting champion, Musial never hit 40 homers or led the league in that category, but he had 20-plus homers in 10 seasons. Meanwhile, two active players in the twilight of their careers – Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera – are chasing down two legendary home run hitters.
In 1901, the American League was established and Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie led it with 14 home runs for the American League Philadelphia Athletics. Over the course of his 22-season career, Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs twelve times. Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League. Kiner's seven consecutive titles from 1946 to 1952 are also the most consecutive home run titles by any player. After becoming the first Brewers player since Robin Yount to win an MVP Award in 2011, Braun flew past the Hall of Famer to claim sole possession of the franchise record with his 252nd career homer in 2015.
List of All-Time Franchise Home Run Leaders
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.
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.
Career Leaders & Records for Runs Scored
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 .
Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times, three with the Texas Rangers and twice with the New York Yankees. 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. Historically, different positions have come with different power expectations.
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. 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.
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. 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. Ken Griffey Jr. came close to that mark but ultimately fell short, finishing with 630.
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. 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.
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.
Luis Gonzalez spent 18 years in the big leagues, including eight standout seasons as a left fielder with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Gonzalez set the franchise mark with 224 home runs for the relatively young Diamondbacks, who joined the MLB as an expansion team in 1998. In no small part as a result of his outstanding home run record, Barry Bonds is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
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