It's the 1969 Mets of Home Run Derby results: Pujols moves on, hitting seven home runs in his one minute of extra time to knock out Schwarber. That was a bomb, a complete bomb, said Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus, who was on first base at the time of the home run. This included the Yankees and Twins both going over 300 dingers. Not exactly striking range, but New York used it to stage a 14-11 comeback win. ESPN has it at 452 that seems short for sure. Here is a transcript of their call of the home run in the Royals 2-1 win. Statcast Pitch Highlighter is an application to help you dissect at a very granular level pitch locations and spray charts. It doesn't work that way, of course. He does have one claim to fame, though. Yeah right. That was the fewest of any day with that many games since September 24th, 2014. I think it was further. It also broke a tie with Albert Pujols for the second-most home runs by the end of May by a rookie; Mark McGwire holds the record with 19 in 1987. Judge tacked on his 21st homer of the season in the latest Bronx romp to spoil Yankees fans. 440+ ft. One hop off the #CPD van and down Kenmore. There's no real need to react here if Turner is on your roster, as he's still batting .301 and is far from dependent on power alone. 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. 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the longest Wrigley homer of the Statcast Era [VIDEO], BCB After Dark: Making things right (field), Seiya Suzuki has withdrawn from the World Baseball Classic and is out indefinitely. 7 barely made it out, but man, did it get out of Fenway fast. To bring some of those things to life, weve compiled a list of 25 interesting stats and facts about home runs in 2022. To help pass time during the coronavirus pandemic, we thought we'd pause to appreciate eight home runs that should have been impossible. 1 overall; Results and analysis for every first-round pick, 2022 MLB All-Star Game: Results and analysis from when baseball's biggest stars hit Hollywood. No. At 1.6 feet from the middle of home plate, Garcia's tater is essentially tied with one by Christian Villanueva in 2017 for the most outside pitch hit for a home run since 2015. His longest of this round: 450 feet. (FanGraphs), 23 players reached the 30-homer plateau. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. Pete Alonso (40) and Mike Trout (40) were the only other hitters to join them in the 40-homer club. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Still, nothing past 400 feet? But he found his swing and edged past Acuna with just under 30 seconds remaining in his bonus round. They've also produced only 316 extra-base hits, and to call many of those "hits" (see here, here,hereand here) is putting it charitably. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). The first of these, a mere 332-footer, was very un-Judge-ian. (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. Now we have the game's next big star on center stage. The longest of those was one of Stargell's at an estimated 506 feet. Just like in the 2019 Home Run Derby, Alonso has the edge over Acua. He got off to a slow start with just one home run in the first 56 seconds and had to call an early timeout. Gonzalez: Acuna is averaging 437 feet per home run this season, the longest in the majors. Christian Yelich: 499 feet, Sept. 6, 2022 vs. COLThis moonshot, which did eventually land in Coors Field's third deck, didn't just give Yelich sole possession of the No. No list of absurd home runs would be complete without at least one from Giancarlo Stanton. src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/>. (FanGraphs), 4 MLB hitters slugged 40-plus homers. Seriously. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Join the Best Live Fantasy Chat Community! However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. The second, which went 391 feet, made up for that relative blooper, and it brought in three runs in an eventual 11-5 win. Then he beat Jose Ramirez, ousted Albert Pujols and reminded Julio Rodrguez that there's a long way to go until the Mariners outfielder can call himself the best young player from the Dominican Republic. And Joey Votto is still the most interesting man in baseball. * Stats Include Regular and Postseason 2022 Batters All Teams Minimum HR: 0 Update The Cubs got some good pitching and timely hitting and held on for a Cactus League win. Anthony Rizzo accomplished this for the Yankees on April 26th at Yankee Stadium. and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. Olney: Alonso will club a 512-foot homer, revitalizing conversation about a juiced ball. The Washington Nationals left-hander made a bid for a strikeout on a 1-2 count by throwing a fastball 4.6 feet off the ground, but Trumbo was able to get under it and send it over the left field wall. The total number of ballparks that would have counted it as a homer are summed up and then divided by 30 and voila, xHR is born and tallied over the course of the season. Washington's star outfielder might have taken the crown Monday night, but the Derby was full of surprises -- from Rodriguez usurping back-to-back reigning champion Pete Alonso in the second round, to Albert Pujols upsetting Kyle Schwarber in the first round. That home run was a tease of things to come for Devers. He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. Outside The Confines: Casualties of Spring Training. It wasn't a dominant round, but the dream for a three-peat lives on. Alonso gets knocked out by Rodriguez at 23 home runs. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, Since the enlargement of the bleachers and the addition of the video boards, on-street home runs at Wrigley have become a rarity. We have a tie, as Schwarber goes 0-4 to end his round and remain tied with Pujols at 13 home runs. Because of three numbers in this order: 5-1-0. Teams like the Braves and Mets are rumored to be the leading pursuers for his services. Eight of baseballs premier sluggers are kicking off MLBs All-Star festivities in Los Angeles with the Home Run Derby on July 18. Brewers 6, Cubs 3: An opportunity for Nelson Velzquez. 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. One thing about Alonso in the Home Run Derby: He never panics. Bryant isn't likely to see a surge in value if traded, so it might be best for fantasy managers to take advantage of the hype once he is moved and do the same. Judge was just one of many to rough up Orioles starter Chris Tillman in the Yankees' 16-3 rout, with a first-inning blast down the left-field line that clocked in with an exit velocity of 116 mph, his fastest speed off the bat this season, according to ESPN's Stats & Info. Judge tied Joe DiMaggio's Yankees rookie record , set in 1936, by hitting his league-leading 29th home run against the Blue Jays. Dave has decades of experience, and his own system of measuring distance. The Padres are in it to win it. Passan: An Alonso-Rodriguez matchup in the semifinals would be everything: king vs. prodigy, right-handed thunder vs. right-handed thunder, a could-be coronation vs. a national coming-out party. 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. Statcast, which was created in 2015, gives us a precise measurement of just how far those homers would travel. In fact, pitches that have gone that low have indeed registered far more hit-by-pitches (1,167) than hits (344) over the last five seasons. As well see soon enough, it wasnt nearly as many as weve seen in the recent past. On April 23rd, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ozzie Albies both hit leadoff homers on the first pitch they saw. A pity, on both counts. The Cubs will need someone to step up while their Japanese star is out. Smiting another Angel, Judge blasted his 25th homer of the season -- and 20th career in Yankee Stadium -- against veteran Jesse Chavez. Major League and Minor League Baseball data provided by Major League Baseball. To wit, their batting average is a microscopic .014. Mookie Betts finished his season with 35 home runs and 40 doubles for the Dodgers. Midway through his round he was in trouble, struggling to find that perfect launch angle and instead hitting low liners that were falling short of the warning track. The ball went 450 feet into left-center, helping Seattle come away with a 7-3 victory against the Miami Marlins. It was nearly 112 mph off the bat. Yet the then-Philadelphia Phillies outfielderhe was suspended for violating MLB's domestic violence policy and later designated for assignment in 2019still swung at the pitch and somehow sent it396 feet from home. 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. No harm done, really; as the old baseball saying goes, a 500-footer counts for the same run as an inside-the-park job. Two more rounds to go, old man! 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. Getting it into that ivy backdrop is a long way. Seager knows a thing or two about hitting homers at Dodger Stadium, but his longest home run came in Arizona. The liner rose only 59 feet above the field and was the fourth-hardest-hit homer of the season at 118.4 mph. Statcast has him under 13 homers, which would move him out of the top-30 power hitters outside of the top 75. It was an organic moment of appreciation as Pujols winds down his final season in baseball. Using our old KB parabola as the standard for MLBmoonshots, what would the Babe have done at Wrigley had he hit that one in Chicago? The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. Admit it: You didn't even expect Pujols to get this far, did you? They each enjoyed two-homer performances. The rookie has a bit of clutch in him, too; his sixth-inning two-run shot came with two outs and turned a 9-2 deficit into a five-run game. The Washington Nationals outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. For raw distance, we can use our concentric scale; an unobstructed 575-footer, hit to straightaway center (as in Detroit) would land just across the Waveland/Sheffield intersection. 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. It might not have made it out in many other ballparks, and it remains the shortest homer of the season for Judge. It was also his 10th home run of the season, which tied the rookie record for home runs in April. He knows this event, having competed in the first timed derby in 2015, and it'll be Soto who swiftly eliminates him in Round 2. If anything, moving to a winning squad with better lineup support could do wonders for his RBI totals. But he won't survive a really tough matchup against Schwarber. "I'm thinking I'm a champion.". It's explicitly stated on BaseballSavant: "Environmental variables (elevation/weather/wind/etc) not factored into these values." The 374-foot shot off Sean Manaea at Oakland Coliseum was Judge's third shortest of the season. 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. Team; Services. That launch angle is the highest of any over-the-fence homer since 2015. ), Patrick Wisdom with his 15th home run of the season. Of course, he just enjoyed a two-homer game for the first time since last August so maybe he will go on a power binge after all. Heres what each of the full seasons have looked like: This moonshot was provided by C.J. . TV: Bally Sports Kansas CityStream: https://t.co/fWzhPoK5Vl#Royals pic.twitter.com/vq38vzAfLo. Ads help us pay RotobBaller's award-winning writers as much as possible they are vital to the site's operations and team. But as with his previous homer, Judge's blast would come in a game the Yankees would ultimately lose. A home run, his 14th of the year into deep center field. We hear of The Stacast Era a great deal, now. First, we obviously see the fact he's the biggest overachiever in terms of home runs over expectation. You can read more about the state of the site here. The Cleveland third baseman entered as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning against the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 8, 2015. 4. Don't have an account? Cain's clout came off the bat at just 90.4 mph with a 38.7-degree launch angle. Edit:The Dodgers have acquired Trea Turner and activated Corey Seager as of July 30, which renders McKinstry irrelevant in fantasy altogether. A crowd quickly swelled around him. Pirates rookie Jack Suwinski enjoyed a three-homer performance on June 19th. Soler has never delivered on the batting average front, but a .190 AVG and .273 wOBA fall well below expectation. Let's see if he can pull a Willie Stargell and hit one out of the stadium. 8. Justin De Fratus served up a 3-2 fastball at 91.8 mph, only to have Stanton send it back out at 13.5 degrees and118.5 mphoff the batfor a home run. It was just the second time thats happened since 1960. 17 HR - 12.7 xHR = 4.3 HR over expectation. It's also one of a very few hits, period, against pitches of at least 102 mph. Judge hit his 24th homer off a 93 mph fastball from Angels righty Parker Bridwell in the rookie's second start of the season. (MLB Random Stats) On April 23rd, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ozzie Albies both hit leadoff homers on the first pitch they saw. (Baseball-Reference), The Machine has some company. After hitting two Sunday, Judge kept at it Monday in Anaheim with his 22nd homer of the season. Jackson: Well, its as deep as Ive ever seen a ball hit in this ballpark, straight away center over all the shrubbery. The Yankees pulled off an 8-6 win courtesy of that home run and the first three-hit game of Judge's MLB career. (Baseball Savant), The shortest home run traveled 271 feet. No matter where he goes, power regression could be in store. pic.twitter.com/e53aeAcHCe. Manage Settings He is full of the youthful energy you would expect from a 21-year-old, but he also seems to possess preternatural maturity, such as when he struggled at the start of the season and didn't get overwhelmed. Sam Haggerty of the Seattle Mariners accomplished this on July 14th. Batted balls with similar measurements have yielded an average distance of 216 feet, not to mention justan.034 average. Once we make it past the All-Star break and a player is still below the .200 mark, most fantasy managers have moved on. Instead of benefiting from their home park and overperforming, it's the opposite situation. Everyone knows Judge has power, but 438 feet worth of opposite-field power is something else. His solo shot off Mychal Givens in the eighth inning tied the score between Baltimore and New York and set up a 7-3 Yankees win. Olney: He'll get the second-biggest ovation of the night, and all the players will surround him to congratulate him after an impressive first round. It's also one of a very few hits, period, against pitches of at least 102 mph. 11 HR - 17.4 xHR = 6.4 HR under expectation. All UZR (ultimate zone rating) calculations are provided courtesy of Mitchel Lichtman. Judge's first homer of the season was a quiet sign of the big hits to come. Absolutely blasted by Salvador Perez. Some injuries are breaking out in Spring Training and none bigger than the one to Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux. Martinez (43), and Joey Gallo (40) were the only ones to accomplish it. Essentially, they take those two pieces of data and build a parabola according to a preset formula. No. Sep 24, 2016. Rojas is a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which has worked against him for all counting stats including homers. We would appreciate your support by either turning off your adblocker or signing up for our ad-free subscription tier.Thanks for being a reader! He's one of three rookies to do so, and both are contemporaries: Trevor Story did it in 2016, and Jose Abreu also hit 10 in 2014. Juan Soto is your 2022 MLB Home Run Derby champ! Now, lets give the Statcast data for the two HRs, remembering that they extrapolate final distance for home runs, not necessarily where they first touch an obstruction. Cardinals lefty Jaime Garcia tried to go inside with a fastball on an 0-1 count, but Castro got his bat around and lofted it 364 feet over the left field wall. That's the shortest distance that an over-the-fence home run ball has been hit since 2015. 47 6 thatphanom.techno@gmail.com 042-532028 , 042-532027 Does Seiya Suzukis injury give Matt Mervis a shot at the Opening Day roster? With the Yanks trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the third inning, Judge hit a towering two-run homer to bring New York to within one run. Garcia, however, took a whack and poked it 376 feetover the right field fence. At 23 years and 266 days, Soto becomes the second youngest player ever to win the Derby. For that we used Statcasts own data for the Kris Bryant video board moonshot of September 6, 2015, still the longest Wrigley homer of the Statcast Era [VIDEO]. He is second in the majors with 28 homers and also has the third-longest home run of the 2022 MLB season, ripping a 468-foot dinger against the Colorado Rockies on April 20. Nomar Mazara: 505 feet, June 21, 2019, vs. CWSAfter crushing a a 482-foot shot on Opening Day in '19, Mazara topped himself for the Statcast record with a colossal smash against the White Sox. He'll do so by whacking a bunch of opposite-field homers, too. It's notthat uncommon (8.0 percent) that right-handed batters swing at pitches that far outside. At least one fan in Yankee Stadium was utterly stunned. On a 1-2 count, Chapman unbleached a 102.8 mph fastball that, by all rights, should have been strike three. Gambling problem? (tie) Giancarlo Stanton: 504 feet, Aug. 6, 2016, vs. COLStanton belted the first 500-foot homer in Statcast history by extending way up the Coors Field bleachers in the left-center power gap. [21] by Handedness. First Corey. And the longest: Schwarber is going to crack a 522-foot home run. Rodrguez sent his first big league home run a long way. Two division rivals going at it. And then we shed a few more when all the All-Stars surrounded Pujols before his final 30 seconds to honor one of the great careers in major league history. On April 17th, a total of just 15 homers were hit across 14 MLB games. 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. You can see in the chart above the leaders from the 2020 season. Forty seconds later, Soto buckled to a knee, launched his bat to the air and embraced his teammates. (tie) Aaron Judge: 495 feet, June 11, 2017, vs. BALThe Bronx was still buzzing from Judge's record-setting 121.1-mph home run off Orioles starter Chris Tillman, but he further cemented one of the grandest rookie campaigns in history the next day with this incredible rocket off Baltimore righty Logan Verrett. A look ahead to the WBC. 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. Hes now the fourth player in MLB history to do that. 454 FT FROM SOTO pic.twitter.com/epgoet6ZVa. Hes got a lot of pop in his bat.. Statcast measures the exit velocity and projected distance of Shohei Ohtani's 116.5 mph, 463-foot moonshot, his 33rd dinger of the season. (MLB x @PapaJohns) pic.twitter.com/zv4WgEvSBf. Soto, who would later defeat Pujols in Round 2, fanned him off with his cap. However, he also led the squad with 76 RBI. After blasting an MLB-high 47 long balls in 2016, Mark Trumbo flopped in 2017 by hitting only 23 total home runs for the Baltimore Orioles. (tie) Ronald Acua Jr.: 495 feet, Sept. 25, 2020, vs. BOSAcua had already proven his power had matured to another level when he went 473 feet off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole earlier in the 2020 season. Connecting with another scorching 118.6-mph exit velocity, Judge reached the back of the concourse in left-center to leave the Yankee Stadium crowd -- and his own teammates -- shaking their heads in disbelief. 5. 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. All of Judge's 6-foot-7 frame got behind this one. Statcast Game Preview: Texas Rangers at San Diego Padres - 2023-03-01 | MLB.com McKinstry doesn't have a huge homer total, but seven HR in 149 AB is promising and prorates to a 40-homer season with a full year worth of at-bats. Schoenfield: As a longtime Mariners fan, this felt like the official arrival of Rodriguez on the national stage, even if Soto beat him out in the end. (tie) Joey Gallo: 495 feet, July 20, 2018, vs. CLEGallo's moonshot is the most clutch homer on this list, as it came off Indians closer Cody Allen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. The future Hall of Famer ranks fifth out of this years contestants when it comes to biggest tape-measure homer in an MLB game. Could Judge reach that by the end of the month? Updated: Thursday, March 2, 2023 3:23 AM ET, Park Factors (tie) C.J. He's enjoying an 18.4% HR/FB rate that should decline. Ramirez didn't show the raw power of Rodriguez or Alonso -- no surprise there -- but finished with 17 home runs, just enough pressure that Soto won't be able to cruise into the second round.