2025 MLB Residence Run Data Tracker: Eugenio Suarez Must Decide Up the Tempo

Who doesn’t take pleasure in a house run? Who cares, this story isn’t for them, anyway. This one’s for the lengthy ball-lovers.

With the way in which dingers are flying off the bat of some gamers, we’re certain to see some homer historical past in 2025. Simply how a lot historical past, although? That’s what we’ll be discovering out during the last weeks of the season, which is able to — fingers crossed — be stuffed with dwelling runs.

Statistics up to date by way of Aug. 17, 2025.

Cal Raleigh: 47 HR, 122/125 G, 61-HR Tempo

The Mariners’ backstop is MLB’s dwelling run chief, and prolonged that lead with a pair of dwelling runs over the weekend as a part of a seven-hit efficiency towards the Mets. Raleigh now has 47 lengthy balls for the yr. He’s sat out three video games with Seattle this season, which implies his tempo of 61 dwelling runs in the mean time assumes he performs in the remainder of them. He possible will want a minimum of sooner or later off between now and the top of the yr, nonetheless, so it’s important that he has one other massive week to pump up his dwelling run whole and his tempo sooner or later to get there for actual.

Very important for what function? Raleigh is chasing three totally different dwelling run information. He’s already hit probably the most homers by a switch-hitting catcher in a single season ever, passing Todd Hundley’s 41 bombs in 1996, however subsequent up is the single-season document for homers by any catcher: Salvador Perez’s 48 from 2021, and Massive Dumper is only one dinger shy of tying it with 37 video games to go. Perez additionally led the majors that yr, which Raleigh may very properly handle. Perez and Johnny Bench — on two events — are the catchers who’ve pulled that off earlier than. So Raleigh might need probably the most dwelling runs by a catcher and probably the most dwelling runs by a catcher main the league in homers, relying on how the remainder of the yr shakes out.

If Raleigh reaches 50 dwelling runs, he’ll be the thirty third participant in league historical past to take action. Simply 32 have ever hit 50 dwelling runs, though 10 of these gamers have carried out so a number of occasions, and their repeat appearances make up the majority of the 50-homer seasons in MLB.

As well as, Massive Dumper is chasing Mickey Mantle’s document of 54 homers by a switch-hitter in a single season — Mantle isn’t solely the lone switch-hitter with a 50-homer season, however he’s received each cases, as he hit 54 in 1961 and 52 in 1956. 

After that’s Aaron Choose’s American League document for homers, 62. Choose broke Roger Maris’ longstanding mark — additionally from 1961 — in 2022. That is the one document Raleigh has a practical shot at and can be lagging behind the tempo for. Not by a lot, nonetheless, he does want 63 to interrupt it.

Aaron Choose: 39 HR, 114/124 G, 53-HR Tempo

Aaron Choose missed a while due to an IL stint for an elbow harm, and solely returned on Aug. 5 because the Yankees’ DH. That was nice information for New York and for Choose’s probabilities at historical past: if he reaches 50 homers in 2025, it is going to be the fourth time he’s hit a minimum of that many. That might tie the MLB document at present held by Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. Choose continues to be all of 33 years outdated: if he hits 50 homers in 2025, given his energy, one other 50-homer marketing campaign earlier than he calls it a profession isn’t out of the query. One yr at a time, nonetheless: Choose can tie the document this season, and fear about breaking it down the street.

Whereas his homerless return minimize his tempo from 55 homers to 52, he went yard twice in his first full week again, bumping issues again as much as 53. His total numbers are nonetheless dropping – they have been earlier than the harm, and that slide has continued since coming again – however that is Aaron Choose and all, so it is truthful to provide him some advantage of the doubt on that one. 

Shohei Ohtani: 43 HR, 122/124 G, 56-HR Tempo

Ohtani is tied for the Nationwide League lead in dwelling runs, which is nothing new — the Dodgers’ slugger hit 54 in 2024 and led the NL — however he wasn’t additionally a pitcher then, as he was nonetheless recovering from Tommy John surgical procedure. Ohtani is again on the mound as a two-way star, and whereas he hasn’t spent the entire season there, the grind of his schedule continues to be intense and distinctive to him.

To provide you a way of rarity, Wes Ferrell is the document holder for probably the most dwelling runs in a season by a pitcher who solely did that, with 9, set again in 1931. Ohtani isn’t hitting all of his homers in video games he’s pitching, so we will actually solely evaluate him to himself. His career-high for dwelling runs in years wherein he’s pitched is 46; Ohtani is on tempo for 56. The primary-ever beginning pitcher who additionally hit 50 dwelling runs in the identical season? It’s trying fairly possible at this stage.

Kyle Schwarber: 43 HR, 124/124 G, 56-HR Tempo 

Schwarber is the NL participant that Ohtani is tied with for the lead in dwelling runs, due to maintaining with him together with his personal 2-homer week. Schwarber has by no means hit 50 dwelling runs earlier than, that means he may be a part of Raleigh as a first-timer in that membership (or get there on his personal). 

He’s performed in each recreation for the Phillies up to now, and his tempo has him clearing 50 homers with room to spare, as properly. And if Schwarber can get to 58 homers, he’ll tie the Phillies’ franchise mark set by Ryan Howard in 2006 – his present tempo has him simply lacking, however that quantity has additionally been climbing because the yr goes on. Howard’s 58 ranks eighth all-time within the NL amongst single-season dwelling run outputs, and is tied for twelfth all-time total in MLB – Schwarber may do much more than “simply” tie or exceed a neighborhood mark by maintaining the tempo.

Eugenio Suárez: 38 HR, 122/125 G, 50-HR Tempo

Suárez is yet one more potential first-time 50-homer participant: if all three of Raleigh, Schwarber and Suárez make it there, the 50-homer membership will bounce from 32 members to 35.

Due to a midseason commerce, Suárez and Raleigh even have the chance to be simply the second-ever occasion of teammates with 50-homer seasons: Maris and Mantle pulled it off in 1961, when Maris hit 61 and Mantle 54. Suárez hasn’t been there your entire season, no, however he’s nonetheless received almost two months of season — and 14 extra homers — earlier than the end line.

Whereas Suárez has struggled since being dealt to Seattle – he is batting simply .150/.200/.283 over 16 video games with them – he did handle to select up a homer this week, which helped him keep at a 50-homer tempo regardless of these in any other case problematic numbers. He wants this chilly streak to finish if he’ll proceed to have a shot at 50, although.

Junior Caminero: 35 HR, 119/125 G, 46-HR Tempo

Caminero is not on a 50-homer tempo, no, however he did hit one other three this week, giving him eight in August – that is bumped his tempo from 41 to 46 in a matter of 15 video games. If he retains it up for the remainder of the month, he may very well be proper there on tempo for 50 very quickly. If he and the opposite three first-timers all made it to 50 homers, there can be 36 members of the 50-homer membership in MLB historical past.

We’re nonetheless a methods off from even suggesting that is doable, nonetheless, however Caminero’s current efficiency was a minimum of value noting given his speedy bounce to 35 dingers: only one different participant (Juan Soto) even has 30 at this level.

Most 50-Homer Gamers in a Season

There have by no means been 5 gamers hitting 50 dwelling runs in the identical season: this group of 5 may make historical past there, they usually’re all at present on tempo for 50, with Suarez mentioning the rear at precisely that many.

There have been two seasons of 4 gamers with over 50 dwelling runs, in 1998 and 2001. In each cases, there have been two gamers with over 60 homers, with one in all them hitting a minimum of 70. Mark McGwire hit 70 in ‘98, with Sammy Sosa’s 66 ending second, and in ‘01 it was Barry Bonds’ 73 and Sosa as soon as once more, this time with 64.

There have been simply 13 seasons with a couple of 50-homer participant: 1938, 1947, 1961, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2017 and 2024. 

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