(He still hit 16 home runs this season.) Why the Cubs took him here: It's a power game in the majors and the Cubs are near the bottom of the National League in home runs this season, so they're betting on Smith making further improvements on his swing to tap ...
Mancini hit 11 consecutive home runs to top Matt Olson in a thrilling first round, then cruised past Trevor Story, the hometown hero, in the second round and accumulated 22 home runs in the finals. Mancini spent six months last season fighting through a...
Judge hit 37 home runs in just 106 games last year, the most by a player who missed at least 50 of his team’s games in a season. And the year before that? He set an AL record with 62 home runs. He was the obvious choice here for the No. 1 favorite. Judge slugged .613 last...
In 2023, 15 of the longest home runs traveled at least 470 feet and six home runs traveled 480-plus feet. Near the end of June in 2024, no home run has traveled further than 476 feet this season. NOTE –We are excluding home runs hit in the Mexico Series between the Colorado Rockies...
a .674 OPS and just four home runs this season. Hisbarrelrate has dropped to the 82nd percentile -- above average, to be sure, but not typical territory for a hitter of Judge’s caliber. More concerning is a .214expected batting averagethat ranks in the 18th percentile (Judge’s 2023...
From their low in 2014 to their high this year, home runs have jumped about 47 percent. About half of that increase occurred suddenly in the middle of the 2015 season, probably because the balls became bouncier, as Lindbergh and Lichtman found. The other half has been spread out over the...
Just 10 days ago, Ohtani trailed the then-home run leader, Aaron Judge, by three home runs with a season total of 16. However, during that time, Judge sustained an injury to his right toe ligament, placing him on the injured list. Meanwhile, Ohtani added seven more home runs to his ...
The 2024 MLB All-Star Game is on Tuesday, July 16. Before that, the MLB Home Run Derby is on Monday, July 15 (ESPN) and the 2024 MLB Futures Game is on Saturday, July 13. The 2024 MLB All-Star Break is from Monday, July 15 to Thursday, July 18 with the regular season resuming...
Which catcher has the most home runs this month? Raleigh (six). Which catcher has the most home runs this season? Raleigh (22). Which catcher has the most home runs since the start of last season? Raleigh (49). The third-year slugger doesn’t do a whole lot more in the batter's ...
Acuña finished the '23 season with 41 home runs and 73 stolen bases. He nearly punched his ticket into this club as a 21-year-old in 2019, when he recorded 41 homers and 37 stolen bases. Alfonso Soriano, Nationals, 2006After nearly joining the 40-40 club in 2002 with the Yankees ...