It's a mountain Soto climbed as a teenager and has codified as a 23-year-old, and regardless of how many rumors percolate, how many incarnations of a potential deal are floated, he's going to do what he does best. Its the first time someone has reached at least 35 in both categories since Duke Snider in 1954. Currently viewing seasons between 2022 and 2022. Who will hit the longest home run of the night and how far? Yeah, thats not where baseballs are supposed to land.. Schwarber has kept his slugging this season. Instead, Devers whacked it for a 105.8 mph drive that landed 424 feet from home plate. 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You can read more about the state of the site here. According to ESPN's Stats & Info, Judge's home run was calculated at 448 feet, his fourth-longest of the season and his ninth this season of 425-plus feet, most in the majors in 2017. 5. The Atlanta Braves outfielder belted a 481-foot no-doubter off Cubs starter Trevor Williams. So what happened? Cubs up 6-0. Schwarber has kept his slugging this season. The event took place when Castro and the Braves were taking on the St. Louis Cardinals on October 2, 2015. All distances according to baseball savant. Cool stuff happens on the baseball field on a daily basis. Absolutely blasted by Salvador Perez. Besides, having gone through the trouble of digging into the archives for all this stuff, lets use some more of it. They are then categorized as a No Doubter which would be a home run at every single park, Mostly Gonewhich could have been a homer at anywhere between 8-29 parks, or Doubter which would be gone at seven parks or fewer. One of the few D-backs not on the trade block, Rojas was looking like an overhyped sleeper a month into the season. Teams like the Braves and Mets are rumored to be the leading pursuers for his services. Stats courtesy of Baseball Savant. A GRAND SLAM to. Soto has been scorching hot this month and will dethrone Pete Alonso in the finals. That's right, the batting practice moon shot traveled 510 feet (or 155.44 meters, if you want to use the local measurements). We want to see tanks. On Monday, he will look to complete a three-peat. That's why he's available in 60% of Yahoo leagues and might be dropped in more because of his recent placement on the IL with a dislocated pinky. That Trumbo also managed to hit it is downright mind-boggling. You can watch the highlight at the 1:24 mark of the video above. Of his 12 homers in 2021, nine would have gone out at Coors but that total would have been in the 20s for either Yankee Stadium or Citi Field. Many of those who formed that semicircle are fellow Dominican players who grew up worshipping him. For just $0.83/month, get an ad-free experience and access to RotoBaller's VIP Discord Chat Community, If you can't subscribe, please consider turning off your adblocker for RotoBaller.com, Progressing, Alex Reyes Not Throwing Off Mound, Royals Sign Jackie Bradley Jr. To Minor-League Deal, John Klingberg Kept Out Of Wednesday's Game, James van Riemsdyk Back In Action Wednesday, Continues To Chase Elusive Florida Victory, Jalen Carter Facing Two Misdemeanor Charges, Lions, Jamaal Williams Have Mutual Interest In Reunion, Matthew Fitzpatrick Looking To Get His Season Rolling At Bay Hill. That was the fewest of any day with that many games since September 24th, 2014. To find this on Baseball Savant, go to the statcast leaderboard and exit velocity and barrels tab. Since it began in 2015, Major League Baseball's Statcast era has brought all new ways to measure and, by extension, appreciate home runs. So, on June 30 the ballhawks got a genuine treat, two home runs cleared the left field structures and found pavement beyond. The blast brought Judge back into a tie with Mike Trout for the major league lead in home runs. The second-inning grand salami helped the Cubs earn an 11-4 victory over their NL Central rival. It's also worth noting that his lineup support keeps deteriorating. We're one batter in, but the message has been sent: Julio is coming for your crown, Pete Alonso. On April 17th, a total of just 15 homers were hit across 14 MLB games. Bryant has put together a solid season amidst the burning dumpster fire on the North Side which could land him on a contending team soon. Check. Team; Services. Three years ago, Acuna homered to all fields, producing a beautiful spray chart, but he lost to Alonso in the second round. (The Sports Daily), 7 MLB teams slugged 200-plus homers. Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch out of Wrigley Stadium all together. Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch, slugger hit his biggest homer at Miller Park in 2019. You can watch the highlight at the 1:24 mark of the video above. Though he handles them the way he handles pitches -- staring at them with enmity or whacking them away with fury -- the notion that Soto was prepared to win the derby seemed unlikely. Stay up-to-date on new posts, giveaways, special deals, and more by signing up for our newsletter. A home run, his 14th of the year into deep center field. They Yankees were up 10-5 in the top of the ninth when Judge sent this no-doubter into the upper deck of PNC Park. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. No. Perhaps nobody in the world does it as well as Soto, the Washington Nationals star who, upon turning down a 15-year, $440 million contract extension, recently found himself in the middle of rumors about his present and future. BCB After Dark: A tale of two outfielders. The ball went 450 feet into left-center, helping Seattle come away with a 7-3 victory against the. Rodriguez was 6 months old when Pujols made his first All-Star Game as a rookie in 2001. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Gonzalez: I have him shocking everybody by defeating Schwarber, the NL's home run leader, in the first round. de los #Royals, Jorge Soler (11 HR's/34 RBI's) conect este domingo dos cuadrangulares frente al zurdo de #Detroit Tarik Skubal (ambos a ms de 420ft) siendo este su octavo juego multi home runs en su carrera en MLB y 1st desde el 8/8/2020 vs Minnesota!! Yeah right. The mark for Wisdoms second HR, which landed in the bleachers, is taken from video. How will that affect his power? Had the fans fromMajor League been in the stands to see J.D. Hes got a lot of pop in his bat.. Check out how accurate our experts were in their predictions, relive the biggest dramatic moments of the Derby and see what it all means going forward. The Cubs got some good pitching and timely hitting and held on for a Cactus League win. Don't ever underestimate Pujols' pride and competitiveness. The Texas Rangers All-Star set his career mark against the Diamondbacks on Sept. 26, 2021, one of his final regular season games as a Dodger. These home runs were hit under extraordinary circumstances, whether it was because of the pitch that was hit or the angle at which the ball left the bat. But as with his previous homer, Judge's blast would come in a game the Yankees would ultimately lose. Not for Julio Rodriguez. With 34 homers as a hitter and 15 wins as a pitcher, Shohei Ohtani is the first player ever to slug 30-plus homers while winning 10-plus games in the same season. Griffey's advice: "Let Julio be Julio.". Odds & lines subject to change. For every home run hit in Major League Baseball, Statcast provides an estimate of how far the ball traveled. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. This metric is determined by finding the parabolic arc of the baseball and projecting the remainder of its flight path. Here are the longest homers Statcast has tracked since Opening Day of the 2015 season. With his victory over Seager, Rodriguez is the first Mariner to advance to the semifinals of the Derby since Griffey in 1998. A crowd quickly swelled around him. When Martinez turned on it, he hit a ball that was 49.7 degrees off his bat and which eventually landed 327 feet away. Statcast does not allow for prevaling wind, and there was a stiff wind blowing out that evening, but hardly anything that would account for a 40-foot shortfall. We have a tie, as Schwarber goes 0-4 to end his round and remain tied with Pujols at 13 home runs. Hit to straightaway right field, the Babes preferred MO, it would have barely come up short of the Red Line tracks. The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. It was an organic moment of appreciation as Pujols winds down his final season in baseball. Once you skip to the 0:60 mark of the above video, you'll see Avisail Garcia needing every last inch of his reach to hit a home run for the Chicago White Sox in 2015. Royals manager Mike Matheny told reporters it was the longest home run hed seen at Guaranteed Rate. It's a record that will surely stand unbroken forever, and not necessarily just for reasons mentioned above. Everyone knows Judge has power, but 438 feet worth of opposite-field power is something else. While Juan Soto had just a 92.1 mph exit velocity, that number jumped to 99.5 mph on fly balls and line drives. Major League and Minor League Baseball data provided by Major League Baseball. However, this is the lowest number the game has seen since 2015. (FanGraphs), 23 players reached the 30-homer plateau. The xHR stat is actually one of the simpler Statcast metrics. Chavez had already walked Judge in the first inning, but seeing him again in the bottom of the second, saw his two-out, full-count cutter get ripped to center for a 422-foot three-run homer to expand the Yankees' early lead to 5-1. On June 30, Statcast laid an eighteen-inches-off-the-plate-called-strike-three whopper on us, and its time we recalcitrant old-schoolers had a whole lotta fun with it. Hes the first player ever to finish with more than 25 in each category during his debut season. Dave has decades of experience, and his own system of measuring distance. Then with the. The former of those figures qualifies Stanton's laser as having the lowest launch angle of any over-the-fence (i.e., not inside-the-park) home run since 2015. Schoenfield: There have been only five home runs hit out of Dodger Stadium during an action game -- two by Willie Stargell and one each from Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Giancarlo Stanton. We're not far removed from the Home Run Derby so it seems like an appropriate time to examine the Statcast side of home run production for some big-name players. How about the center-field scoreboard? A few months after Mark Trumbo reached for the proverbial skies for a home run in 2017, Odubel Herrera practically went underground for one of his own. Pitches that low and lower are typically swung at only 1.0 percent of the time, and they're hit for just a .019 average. That's the highest pitch hit for a homer during the Statcast era. Judge crushed the 2-1 pitch 388 feet into deep center field to bring the Yankees to within a run, a mistake that Bridwell -- and the 39,853 fans in the stands in Yankee Stadium -- will not soon forget. To match his April performance, Judge has to hit five out of the park in the next 11 games; something tells us that's entirely possible. The future Hall of Famer ranks fifth out of this years contestants when it comes to biggest tape-measure homer in an MLB game. When Snider accomplished this feat, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. (@Drianrogelio) July 26, 2021. Soto got to admire his longest home run and watch it fly. Pujols crushed his record home run 459 feet off Taylor Rogers in a July 4 Angels-Twins game back in 2017. This included a walk-off dinger, making him the first rookie to accomplish both of those feats in one game. He turned a hanging curveball from White Sox starter Derek Holland and sent it into the bullpen in left-center. On June 21, 2019, Nomar Mazara joined that exclusive club -- and raised the bar for peak homer distance. Ours will be fun, though. Trout finished with 40 homers despite missing 43 games. Sep 24, 2016. This particular dinger is from April 2015, when Stanton and the Miami Marlins were facing the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. On August 8, Atlanta Braves right-hander Julio Teheran threw an 0-2 slider that spooked Herrera into moving his back foot out of its path. While he occupies the eighth spot in the lineup most nights and this iteration of the Dodgers is a far cry from the championship team we saw last year, he might still draw interest from fantasy managers in need of a replacement at second base. (tie) Jess Snchez: 496 feet, May 30, 2022 vs. COLDespite Coors Field's long history of majestic home runs, Snchez's 496-footer is third in terms of distance -- while it represented the only run the Marlins scored in an otherwise run-of-the-mill 7-1 loss, there was nothing forgettable about this shot. Is your favorite star headed to Hollywood? Judge tied Joe DiMaggio's Yankees rookie record , set in 1936, by hitting his league-leading 29th home run against the Blue Jays. To these ends, these dingers are all truly one of a kind. Juan Soto is your 2022 Home Run Derby champion after dueling it out with rookie Julio Rodriguez in a battle of the young bats Monday evening at Dodger Stadium. Judge's home run gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead over the rival Red Sox, and New York improved to 7-0 in games when Judge hits a homer. According to the somewhat limited info Statcast offers on MLBsites, it measures launch angle and exit velocity, and extrapolates everything else from there. Heres how to get one, Fans who buy tickets to Royals opener may receive special Bobby Witt Jr. bobblehead. Admit it: You didn't even expect Pujols to get this far, did you? That tied Barry Bonds for the most in MLB history. @ronaldacunajr24 is BRINGING the power. With Gavin Luxon the IL along with the aforementioned Seager and Betts, McKinstry is going to get regular playing time for the foreseeable future at second base. Martinez (43), and Joey Gallo (40) were the only ones to accomplish it. The Seattle Mariners rookie outfielder crushed the milestone homer off fellow All-Star Sandy Alcantara on May 1. No. Here we break out our own system, which we have featured in several articles over several years. But in the end, he will get respect for having pushed the top seed but not the W he desires. Among all home runs that were hit 113 mph and at a 27-degree launch angle, Trout's 473-foot big fly traveled the furthest. No matter where he goes, power regression could be in store. Also note, by this measure even a 575-footer is heading down (NOTrising)as it leaves the park. Passan: Alonso, of course. Does Seiya Suzukis injury give Matt Mervis a shot at the Opening Day roster? Some injuries are breaking out in Spring Training and none bigger than the one to Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux. Soto spent Monday afternoon begrudgingly answering questions about his hometown team potentially trading him over the next couple of weeks, and then he went out and showed the world why every executive throughout baseball is salivating at the possibility. The Cubs will need someone to step up while their Japanese star is out. 2. Though it predated Statcast, he also hit one at the 2014 Home Run Derby that traveled510 feet. He knows how to win the derby, seeing as he's done so the past two times. That's still the fastest pitch hit for a home run since the Statcast era began in 2015. He is the second Washington Nationals player to win the event (Bryce Harper won in 2018) and first Dominican-born champion since Robinson Cano (2011). 5. However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. But we need to put the formula in its place once in a while. Statcast says 452. Batted balls with similar measurements have yielded an average distance of 216 feet, not to mention justan.034 average. Continue with Recommended Cookies, Home Run History Daily, Nightly, and Ever So Rightly. You have to remember, the Mariners haven't had a homegrown star since Felix Hernandez -- and Hernandez was a pitcher, which means must-watch TV only once every five or six days. LOS ANGELES-- The 2022 Home Run Derby is set for Monday night in Dodger Stadium. by giving an educated guess as to its true distance, the longest Wrigley homer of the Statcast Era [VIDEO], BCB After Dark: Making things right (field), Seiya Suzuki has withdrawn from the World Baseball Classic and is out indefinitely. Ditto for White Sox radio announcers Len Kasper and Darrin Jackson. Devious us, we provided him the image without the distance scale. He's the most prolific home run hitter on the planet. Balls hit at14 degrees or lower have gone for a solid .332 batting average, but with just a .379 slugging percentage. Albert Pujols is participating in his final Home Run Derby tonight, what are your predictions for the 42-year-old? Rodriguez's first round of 32 home runs was spectacular, and when he raised his arms in triumph, it wasn't just a moment for him or even Mariners fans. Right center side of center field. pic.twitter.com/uB68XYitRU. Even by Judge's already blast-happy standards, this was perhaps his most impressive homer yet as the Yankees kept piling up runs against the Orioles. Get Baseball Printables at The Daily Dingers Shop, Career Home Run Leaders: The Ultimate Guide, Postseason Home Run Leaders: The Definitive Guide, Single Season Home Runs: A Complete Guide, Home runs are down 23% compared to 2019. After his earlier blast for distance, this one was a low line shot that he smoked to right to complete the Bombers' scoring in their 14-3 rout of Baltimore. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. This inside-the-parker traveled just 288 feet. He pulled a 464-foot bomb against Humberto Mejia for his second home run of the game in a 3-0 win for Los Angeles. So why are we including it? He's enjoying an 18.4% HR/FB rate that should decline. Nobody tell @Pete_Alonso20 the Derby is over. Unfortunately, he's staying put the rest of this season but his lineup support is also about to get worse if Whit Merrifield is traded to Seattle or somewhere else. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. #wrigley #reds pic.twitter.com/2JFHpWtc5f. Hanging pitch? 8. Judge hit his first grand slam, a line-drive blast to right field at Andrew Triggs' expense to give the Yankees the lead in the bottom of the third, fueling a 9-5 romp over the Athletics. coors field home run distance coors field home run distance. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. Someone, or something, got one or both of the initial data points wrong. outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. El slugger cubano ?? (See this 2016 article re: the placement of the board in this scale). Back on June 12th, Aaron Judge was on pace to slash .313/.388/.681 with 66 homers, 132 RBI, 137 runs scored, 80 walks, and 187 hits. Along with his 40 homers, Trout drove in just 80 runs. It was also his 10th home run of the season, which tied the rookie record for home runs in April. We want to see balls that never stop flying. (Alonso remains tied with Yoenis Cespedes and Ken Griffey Jr. with two titles in a row.) The goal of the Home Run Derby is to hit the most homers, but this years group of contestants has a track record of posting incredible distances on their long balls, too. Schoenfield: It's the year of the Mariners! Soto versus Alonso. By turning on a pitch that was 1.8 feet from the center of home plate, he wears the crown for the most inside pitchhit for a home run in the Statcast era. I can go 0-for-30 or J.P. [Crawford] can go 0-for-30 or Julio can go 30-for-30.". 11 HR - 17.4 xHR = 6.4 HR under expectation. Two more rounds to go, old man! Setting aside those of the inside-the-park variety, the shortest possible distance for a home run in a major league stadium resides at Fenway Park, where the "Pesky Pole" sits only 302 feet down the right field line.