2. "I'm thinking I'm a champion.". Cool stuff happens on the baseball field on a daily basis. by Retrosheet. Fans watching at home scoffed at the estimate from Statcast. * Click on a player to see more information about their specific events including videos of plays if available. Judge's first homer of the season was a quiet sign of the big hits to come. This guy just continues to amaze us., Even Perez told The Stars Lynn Worthy: Its got to be more than that, come on guys.. By comparing xHR to HR totals, we can identify the biggest underachievers and overachievers and attempt to predict who might regress in the second half of the 2021 season. One Giancarlo Stanton laser has to be seen to be believed. All distances according to baseball savant. Some injuries are breaking out in Spring Training and none bigger than the one to Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux. , Schwarber launched a grand slam off Milwaukee Brewers starter Zach Davies on July 28, 2019. He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. 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. You get the feeling he might just be warming up for some titanic home runs in the next two rounds. 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. On a 1-2 count, Chapman unbleached a 102.8 mph fastball that, by all rights, should have been strike three. Off those, the league. You can read more about the state of the site here. Two division rivals going at it. (FanGraphs), 23 players reached the 30-homer plateau. Don't ever underestimate Pujols' pride and competitiveness. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Royals manager Mike Matheny told reporters it was the longest home run hed seen at Guaranteed Rate. So what happened? Including his, those swings have also produced a grand total of four hits. Who is going to win the Home Run Derby and whom will he beat in the final? (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. Soto got to admire his longest home run and watch it fly. Pete Alonso (40) and Mike Trout (40) were the only other hitters to join them in the 40-homer club. No. 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. A couple of Patrick Wisdom homers from last week tell the tale. 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. Check. 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. The Washington Nationals outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. Gonzalez: Acuna is averaging 437 feet per home run this season, the longest in the majors. He went opposite field off Matt Andriese in the top of the second for his fifth home run of the month. Eyeballs win one, for a change: The Wisdom slam was 442 feet, not 401 as shown here: #Reds 0 @ #Cubs 6 [B2-2o]:Patrick Wisdom hits a grand slam (15) to LCFHit: 401ft, 108.3mph, 34 Pitch: 95.3mph Sinker (RHP Graham Ashcraft, 5). He joins Henry Aaron (1973), J.D. I can go 0-for-30 or J.P. [Crawford] can go 0-for-30 or Julio can go 30-for-30.". 8. Anyone with bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium on Monday better bring a glove. But when they have, they've hit for just a .047 average with four extra-base hits. Courtesy of ESPN Stats & Information research, we've captured every one of the first-year slugger's homers and the story that goes with it, from the victim on the mound to the speed off the bat. Martinez's home run on May 15, 2015, they might have been onto something in thinking that it was "too high.". Whoops. Pujols crushed his record home run 459 feet off Taylor Rogers in a July 4, The 459-foot blast was Pujols longest of the Statcast era. This is a tale of two home runs, both hit June 30, by Patrick Wisdom, the first a dramatic grand slam [VIDEO]. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. All of Judge's 6-foot-7 frame got behind this one. Our goal is to put out the highest-quality content and tools. 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. He only has one 'no-doubter' and 16 'mostly gone'. ESPN has it at 452 that seems short for sure. 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. The ball went 450 feet into left-center, helping Seattle come away with a 7-3 victory against the Miami Marlins. Don't have an account? It wasn't a dominant round, but the dream for a three-peat lives on. 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. 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. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Frankly, the video doesn't do this one justice. 5th street home run of 2022. However, his xSLG and xISO have gone down two straight seasons now rather than rebounding from 2020. Besides, having gone through the trouble of digging into the archives for all this stuff, lets use some more of it. After Suwinskis three-homer performance, Bryan Reynolds and Michael Perez each had one of their own. Getting a 91 mph fastball on a 1-1 count, Judge unloaded a 445-foot blast to left-center. However, he also led the squad with 76 RBI. are factored into these values. That Trumbo also managed to hit it is downright mind-boggling. We're one batter in, but the message has been sent: Julio is coming for your crown, Pete Alonso. Usually the definition of a steady veteran and reliable fantasy presence, there are some warnings that Turner could be less valuable in the second half. No matter where he goes, power regression could be in store. He'll do so again this year, thwarting NL East foe Soto in the finals. 2. 8. (MLB Random Stats), Consistency, thy name is Albert. 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. 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. It was the fewest of any April day with that many games since April 28th, 1993. 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. McKinstry was hot to start the season, hitting .296 with three HR and 14 RBI in April and drew plenty of interest as a waiver pickup. It was more like 600 feet. However, one is occasionally inclined to doubt the line, in the manner of the umpire grading sites. A pity, on both counts. However, it was enough to keep us busy between April and November. pic.twitter.com/qgGGrfFYEH. That's the shortest distance that an over-the-fence home run ball has been hit since 2015. 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. Griffey's advice: "Let Julio be Julio.". The issue is that he's still stuck on the Diamondbacks, the team around him will get worse not better, and his xHR differential is precarious. It also happened in 2015 (41 homers, 90 RBI). Seriously. Soler has never delivered on the batting average front, but a .190 AVG and .273 wOBA fall well below expectation. A home run, his 14th of the year into deep center field. Cron at Coors Field on September 9th. As recently as 2019, there were 24 (!) Stat cast is broken on the south side that was farther than 452' Salvy!! Judge's third straight game with a home run perhaps showed that the rookie's emergence wasn't a fluke. Crazy showing from the rookie. Rodrguez is up to 15 home runs in his MLB career, and he might hit more than that on Monday at Dodger Stadium. 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. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. 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. Statcast Home Run Tracker No Doubters: Out at All 30 Stadiums, Mostly Gone: Out at 8 to 29 Stadiums, Doubters: Out at 7 Stadiums or Fewer xHR: Ballparks Gone At/30 * Environmental variables (elevation/weather/wind/etc.) 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. With his victory over Seager, Rodriguez is the first Mariner to advance to the semifinals of the Derby since Griffey in 1998. No. Admit it: You didn't even expect Pujols to get this far, did you? He's improved since but not enough to qualify as having a successful season, although it would be hard to label anything around this team a success right now. A table displaying leaders in Statcast metrics such as Sweet Spot % (SwSp%), Barrels, Exit Velocity (EV), Batted Ball Distance (DST), Projected Home Run Distance (HR-DST), Launch Angle (LA) and Batted Ball Events (BBE) . Join the Best Live Fantasy Chat Community! Cubs up 6-0. They each enjoyed two-homer performances. In an event like the Home Run Derby, the number of home runs matters more than the distance when it comes to winning the event, but not hearts and minds. Before the All-Star field of eight gets into the batters box for this years Derby, lets look at every participants longest home run of the Statcast era: Ramrezs longest MLB home run came in a pretty inconsequential spot. It was the shortened 2020 season when he hit six. Ive never seen a ball go up there, Matheny said. This was accomplished on July 11th by Josh H. Smith of the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park. Statcast Pitch Highlighter is an application to help you dissect at a very granular level pitch locations and spray charts. Mookie Betts finished his season with 35 home runs and 40 doubles for the Dodgers. Cody Bellinger is batting a miserable .162 and shows no signs of turning things around. From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete has done a little bit of everything since joining The Star in 1997. For every home run hit in Major League Baseball, Statcast provides an estimate of how far the ball traveled. 17 HR - 12.7 xHR = 4.3 HR over expectation. Two years ago, we concluded that KBs home run, hit to proper trajectory, would be well short, but Sammy Sosas well-attested 536-footer in 2003 might have scraped the bottom of the board, assuming the parabola is applicable. Sam Haggerty of the Seattle Mariners accomplished this on July 14th. (Buster Olney), Mike Trout adds himself to another exclusive list. Judge got his seventh home run at Yankee Stadium and fifth of more than 425 feet. 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. 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. Pujols has definitely been hitting home runs the longest time-wise out of anyone in this years Home Run Derby field, but not distance-wise. Still, nothing past 400 feet? Seager knows a thing or two about hitting homers at Dodger Stadium, but his longest home run came in Arizona. Julio Rodriguez (32 home runs) defeats Corey Seager (24 home runs), Pete Alonso (20 home runs) defeats Ronald Acuna Jr. (19 home runs), Juan Soto (18 home runs) defeats Jose Ramirez (17 home runs), Albert Pujols (20 home runs) defeats Kyle Schwarber (19 home runs) in extra time, Julio Rodriguez (31 home runs) defeats Pete Alonso (22 home runs), Juan Soto (16 home runs) defeats Albert Pujols (15 home runs), Juan Soto (19 home runs) defeats Julio Rodriguez (18 home runs). For your further viewing pleasure, Stanton has also hit the fastest (121.7 mph in 2018) homer since 2015. To help pass time during the coronavirus pandemic, we thought we'd pause to appreciate eight home runs that should have been impossible. Schoenfield: One and done. So behold, here's one from Giancarlo Stanton. Two years ago, we marked the 20th anniversary of Glenallen Hills celebrated (pre-Statcast)rooftop home run, by giving an educated guess as to its true distance. #wrigley #reds pic.twitter.com/2JFHpWtc5f. Heres the monster home run against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. Rodriguez was 6 months old when Pujols made his first All-Star Game as a rookie in 2001. It was just . (MLB x @PapaJohns) pic.twitter.com/zv4WgEvSBf. Absolutely blasted by Salvador Perez. 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. It was not only the longest of 2022, but its also tied for the second-longest homer in the Statcast era. 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. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. This was accomplished by Ronald Acua Jr. In Bill Jenkinsons well-regarded book, Baseballs Ultimate Power, he lists Babe Ruths home run in Detroit on July 18, 1921 as the longest researchable homer hit during a MLBgame, at 575 feet. Is your favorite star headed to Hollywood? 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. (ESPN Stats & Info), Shohei Ohtanis brilliance knows no bounds. 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.. Statcast, which was created in 2015, gives us a precise measurement of just how far those homers would travel. Passan: The prodigious power of Soto is so free, so easy, one takes it for granted. 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. 440+ ft. One hop off the #CPD van and down Kenmore. Justin Carlson (@HickCar25) August 2, 2022 If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far. To wit, their batting average is a microscopic .014. While the moonshot broke team records, it was only the third-longest in Coors Field behind Stanton and Snchez's long balls. As it stands, New York would be the perfect fit for his power profile. Rodriguez finished at 31, 63 through two rounds. Devious us, we provided him the image without the distance scale. So few Wrigley moonshots land unobstructed that what Dave pointed out is a valuable landmark. And, the one time it didnt happen for Alonso was in 2020, which was a 60-game season. 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. outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. Gonzalez: The final round. Here we break out our own system, which we have featured in several articles over several years. Pujols' oldest son, A.J., watched from nearby in tears. The 459-foot blast was Pujols longest of the Statcast era. 7 barely made it out, but man, did it get out of Fenway fast. "Right now, I'm not even thinking about it," Soto told ESPN's Buster Olney on the field, after having the Derby chain placed around his neck by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. Schoenfield: It's the year of the Mariners! 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. Manage Settings The rookie dented a metal casement above a door behind the left-center field wall with his major league-leading 28th home run, a drive that would have traveled 456 feet had it landed unimpeded, according to MLB's Statcast. Juan Soto is your 2022 MLB Home Run Derby champ! (Christopher Kamka), Lots of homers and not a lot of RBI. 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. 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. I think it was more than 505 feet. And step up he did. Cron (-4 HR-xHR - seventh), or Yonathan Daza (-4 HR-xHR - 11th). 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