The Seattle Mariners rookie outfielder crushed the milestone homer off fellow All-Star Sandy Alcantara on May 1. It was the fewest of any April day with that many games since April 28th, 1993. Soler has never delivered on the batting average front, but a .190 AVG and .273 wOBA fall well below expectation. 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. 8. The mammoth shot is tied for the second-longest home run since Statcast started tracking homers in 2015. . At No. 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. 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. Passan: The prodigious power of Soto is so free, so easy, one takes it for granted. 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. Hes the only player ever to do this more than once. During a tilt between the Red Sox and Kansas City Royals on July 29, 2017, Lorenzo Cain hit a ball that just barely made it to the Pesky Pole. This three-run homer easily made the third deck in left at Target Field, and it made San the fifth Twins player that season to reach 30 homers -- an MLB record. Mets first baseman Pete Alonso slugged 40 homers with 27 doubles in 2022. Denver's Coors Field is a power hitter's heaven, and, for batted balls flying all over the place during tonight's Home Run Derby, ESPN will showcase this year's Statcast-driven alternative . He went opposite field off Matt Andriese in the top of the second for his fifth home run of the month. Pirates rookie Jack Suwinski enjoyed a three-homer performance on June 19th. He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. Soto, who would later defeat Pujols in Round 2, fanned him off with his cap. The second-inning grand salami helped the Cubs earn an 11-4 victory over their NL Central rival. As you can imagine, batted balls with a launch angle of at least 49 degrees almost always result in outs. The Washington Nationals outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. 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. 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. pic.twitter.com/qgGGrfFYEH. Hanging pitch? Does Seiya Suzukis injury give Matt Mervis a shot at the Opening Day roster? He came within one game of the record for most consecutive games with a dinger. (MLB x @PapaJohns) pic.twitter.com/zv4WgEvSBf. We have a tie, as Schwarber goes 0-4 to end his round and remain tied with Pujols at 13 home runs. Nobody tell @Pete_Alonso20 the Derby is over. 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. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. * Click on a player to see more information about their specific events including videos of plays if available. It's also worth noting that his lineup support keeps deteriorating. Currently viewing seasons between 2022 and 2022. At least one fan in Yankee Stadium was utterly stunned. Ive never seen a ball go up there, Matheny said. (ESPN Stats & Info), An April power outage. The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. The 374-foot shot off Sean Manaea at Oakland Coliseum was Judge's third shortest of the season. Gambling problem? To use drag and highlight the pitches or batted balls you want to include and it'll automatically update the stats at the bottom of the page. Asked after the game if he had ever been this hot at the plate, Judge replied, "Maybe T-ball.". Yeah, thats not where baseballs are supposed to land.. 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. 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. They won't face each other unless they meet in the final, but I'm sure at some point we'll get a Pujols-Rodriguez embrace -- one generation to the next. Stat cast is broken on the south side that was farther than 452 Salvy!! While the moonshot broke team records, it was only the third-longest in Coors Field behind Stanton and Snchez's long balls. Dating back to his rookie year in 2018, he has hit 13 home runs 450 feet or longer, second to only C.J. 5th street home run of 2022. Outside The Confines: Casualties of Spring Training. src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/>. The Seattle Mariners rookie outfielder crushed the milestone homer off fellow All-Star Sandy Alcantara on May 1. 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. All videos courtesy of MLB, via YouTube. He hits them a long way.". Griffey's advice: "Let Julio be Julio.". This was accomplished by Ronald Acua Jr. It doesn't work that way, of course. At 0.7 feet off the ground, that's thelowestpitch hit for a home run during the Statcast era. What it lacked in distance more than made up for it in importance, as the three-run shot in the third inning brought the Bronx Bombers to within one of the A's. are factored into these values. A look ahead to the WBC. Royals manager Mike Matheny told reporters it was the longest home run hed seen at Guaranteed Rate. 454 FT FROM SOTO pic.twitter.com/epgoet6ZVa. 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!! Aaron Judge (62) and Kyle Schwarber (46) led the American League and National League, respectively, in homers this year. Cron earned his first All-Star appearance for his efforts in 2022 and now sits just . He also became the first Yankee to hit 20 homers before the All-Star Break in his age-25 (or younger) season since Roger Maris did it in 1960. When Snider accomplished this feat, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. A GRAND SLAM to. It was his seventh opposite-field homer of the season. Dave has decades of experience, and his own system of measuring distance. 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. The oldest player ever to compete in the Derby, Pujols might have been the sentimental favorite, but he was hardly the favorite to win a contest that rewards stamina as much as raw power. Continue with Recommended Cookies, Home Run History Daily, Nightly, and Ever So Rightly. Essentially, they take those two pieces of data and build a parabola according to a preset formula. Is your favorite star headed to Hollywood? 27 was a two-run homer that capped a five-run sixth against White Sox reliever Jake Petricka, breaking open a 3-2 game. And the longest: Schwarber is going to crack a 522-foot home run. Not a good sign. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. That launch angle is the highest of any over-the-fence homer since 2015. 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. 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. Getting a 91 mph fastball on a 1-1 count, Judge unloaded a 445-foot blast to left-center. 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. And to go over that, Ive never seen it. Since the enlargement of the bleachers and the addition of the video boards, on-street home runs at Wrigley have become a rarity. One Giancarlo Stanton laser has to be seen to be believed. 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! That's right, the batting practice moon shot traveled 510 feet (or 155.44 meters, if you want to use the local measurements). First Corey. (ESPN Stats & Info), A first in Los Angeles. Hes the first player ever to finish with more than 25 in each category during his debut season. Mazara tops the list, but in seven seasons Statcast has measured a plethora of neck-craning shots that have to be seen to be believed. Andrew Vaughn led the White Sox with 17 homers in 2022. You can toggle the input boxes to help further dissect the pitches and spray. That's the highest pitch hit for a homer during the Statcast era. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete has done a little bit of everything since joining The Star in 1997. 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]. Absolutely blasted by Salvador Perez. Instead, Devers whacked it for a 105.8 mph drive that landed 424 feet from home plate. Rodriguez was 6 months old when Pujols made his first All-Star Game as a rookie in 2001. Passan: He will have a better showing than expected, which is to say his first-round matchup against Schwarber will not end with Schwarber having a minute-plus left on the clock. Statcast Pitch Highlighter is an application to help you dissect at a very granular level pitch locations and spray charts. With Rodriguez facing either Soto or Pujols in the finals, we are guaranteed our second all-Dominican final, matching 2010, when David Ortiz beat Hanley Ramirez. Juan Soto is your 2022 MLB Home Run Derby champ! None of this will matter for Story if he switches uniforms after the trade deadline, though. His most difficult test might come in the first round against Acuna, but they've faced one another before, in 2019, and the Polar Bear came out on top. 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. Hes now the fourth player in MLB history to do that. What's the old saw about doing something twice on Sunday? And, the one time it didnt happen for Alonso was in 2020, which was a 60-game season. Crazy showing from the rookie. Someone, or something, got one or both of the initial data points wrong. Batted balls with similar measurements have yielded an average distance of 216 feet, not to mention justan.034 average. "Balls with that trajectory, for a lot of guys it doesn't go out. (Buster Olney), A different kind of 40/40 club. 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. Don't ever underestimate Pujols' pride and competitiveness. pic.twitter.com/e53aeAcHCe. teams who hit 200-plus homers. It was also Judge's 33rd homer that year at the House That Ruth Built, eclipsing the franchise record set by the Bambino himself back in 1921. To bring some of those things to life, weve compiled a list of 25 interesting stats and facts about home runs in 2022. "I'm thinking I'm a champion.". Here are the clubs who hit at least 200 homers during 2022: In conjunction with the fact directly above, this is much lower than in recent years. 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. Pujols crushed his record home run 459 feet off Taylor Rogers in a July 4 Angels-Twins game back in 2017. Note to pitchers: Don't make a mistake against Aaron Judge. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. Like any typical year, baseballs regular season and postseason were full of home runs for us to admire. Albert Pujols is participating in his final Home Run Derby tonight, what are your predictions for the 42-year-old? 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. 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. = 110mph exit velocity = 440ft distance . But he won't survive a really tough matchup against Schwarber. The thin Colorado air doesn't sway the expectations for Story (-8 HR-xHR - first), Garrett Hampson (-7 HR-xHR - second), Charlie Blackmon (-5 HR-xHR - fifth), C.J. 473 feet! 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. The longest homers measured by Statcast The longest homers measured since 2015 September 9th, 2022 Matt Kelly @ mattkellyMLB Few people on the planet can describe the feeling of hitting a ball so far that even the camera operators have trouble tracking its flight. Albert Pujols Top 10 Longest Home runs of the Statcast Era. That number was cut in half to 12 in 2021 before nearly getting cut in half again in 2022. 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. Just like in the 2019 Home Run Derby, Alonso has the edge over Acua. We want to see balls that never stop flying. Here is a transcript of their call of the home run in the Royals 2-1 win. by Retrosheet. Who is going to win the Home Run Derby and whom will he beat in the final? But he found his swing and edged past Acuna with just under 30 seconds remaining in his bonus round. Cron at Coors Field on September 9th. Brewers 6, Cubs 3: An opportunity for Nelson Velzquez. Once the year was done, the outfielder had compiled a .311/.425/.688 line with 62 homers, 131 RBI, 133 runs scored, 111 walks, and 177 hits. If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far Perez hit that ball, check out this video of the longest home runs at Guaranteed Rate Field. Full coverage , Snubs, surprises takeaways (tie) Miguel San: 496 feet, Sept. 17, 2019, vs. CWSSan tapped into his prodigious power for a breakout 34-homer season in 2019, and this was the most majestic of those blasts. (tie) C.J. While Juan Soto had just a 92.1 mph exit velocity, that number jumped to 99.5 mph on fly balls and line drives. 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. While Rodriguez may draw the ire of the crowd for ousting Seager, a longtime Dodger, in the first round, he'll win them back with a show in the next round only to be thwarted by the champ not yet ready to cede his crown. Juli-ooo!! Yet Trumbo did hit one homer worthy of a spit take off Gio Gonzalez on May 8. And New York came away with a lopsided 12-3 win after dropping 11 of 14. (Christopher Kamka), Lots of homers and not a lot of RBI. During his seven-game home run streak, Trout posted a 1.648 OPS with 11 RBI and 10 runs scored. This metric is determined by finding the parabolic arc of the baseball and projecting the remainder of its flight path. If anything, moving to a winning squad with better lineup support could do wonders for his RBI totals. Its up to you to decide whether, after what Statcast hastaught us about trajectories, the extrapolation from 1921 has any validity. 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. No. I mean, not one home run. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. Statcast has him under 13 homers, which would move him out of the top-30 power hitters outside of the top 75. He'll do so by whacking a bunch of opposite-field homers, too. The Yankees pulled off an 8-6 win courtesy of that home run and the first three-hit game of Judge's MLB career. You can see in the chart above the leaders from the 2020 season. A home run, his 14th of the year into deep center field. (Sarah Langs), Pirates hit the trifecta for three-homer games in one month. No harm done, really; as the old baseball saying goes, a 500-footer counts for the same run as an inside-the-park job. As recently as 2019, there were 24 (!) Acua tore his ACL later that season and was unable to take the field during the Braves World Series run. Long rumored to be on the move to a team like the Yankees or Mets after failing to negotiate an extension in the offseason, Story could be in a completely different team context. 8. Gonzalez: The final round. It was just . 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. 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