2025 MLB Residence Run Information Tracker: Raleigh Nears 60, Choose 1 Shy of Historic 50

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 best way 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 can — fingers crossed — be stuffed with house runs.

Statistics up to date by means of Sept. 21, 2025.

Cal Raleigh: 58 HR, 153/156 G, 60-HR Tempo

The Mariners’ backstop stays MLB’s house run chief, whilst he is not the one hitter over 50. Raleigh now has 58 lengthy balls for the 12 months, the most-ever for a major catcher, and the most-ever hit whereas taking part in as a catcher in a season: his forty ninth shot handed Salvador Perez’s 2021 season for that honor, and each extra homer extends that first document, whereas his 54th homer additionally was his forty third as a backstop, passing Javy López’s mark from 2003.

He’s sat out three video games with Seattle this season, which suggests his tempo of 60 house runs in the mean time assumes he performs in the remainder of them. He would possibly want no less than someday off between now and the top of the 12 months, nonetheless, so it’s very important that he has one other massive week to pump up his house run whole and his tempo sooner or later to get there for actual.

Important for what function? Raleigh is chasing a number of house run information and accomplishments. He’s already hit essentially the most homers by a switch-hitting catcher in a single season ever, passing Todd Hundley’s 41 bombs in 1996, and took Perez’s document, as nicely. Perez additionally led the majors in 2021, which Raleigh would possibly very nicely handle. Perez and Johnny Bench — on two events — are the catchers who’ve pulled that off earlier than. So Raleigh might need essentially the most house runs by a catcher and essentially the most house runs by a catcher main the league in homers, relying on how the remainder of the 12 months shakes out.

Raleigh additionally reached the 50-homer mark, making him the thirty third participant in league historical past to take action. Of these (now 34), 11 of these gamers have performed 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’s fifty fifth blast put him forward of Mickey Mantle’s document of 54 homers by a switch-hitter in a single season — Mantle is not the lone switch-hitter with a 50-homer season, however he’s received each of the opposite situations, as he hit 54 in 1961 and 52 in 1956.

If Raleigh finishes with 59, he’ll have entered the top-10 single-season house run rankings, tied with Babe Ruth and Giancarlo Stanton. After that’s Aaron Choose’s American League document for homers, 62. Choose broke Roger Maris’ longstanding mark — additionally from 1961 — in 2022. If Raleigh had been to hit 63, he’d take possession of the AL document from the Yankees, the one crew with management of it since Ruth broke his personal document of 29, set with the Pink Sox, with 54 bombs in 1920. He wants an enormous last week to get there, however the Mariners do face the Rockies in half of their remaining video games.

Aaron Choose: 49 HR, 146/156 G, 51-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. He had not been the identical hitter because the harm, as he batted simply .243/.422/.456 since his return on Aug. 5 by means of final Monday, which reduce into his manufacturing for the 12 months: he had fallen beneath a 50-homer tempo after failing to hit a house run within the earlier week.

He exploded in mid-September, nonetheless, with 5 house runs in six video games. Choose has now handed Yogi Berra for fifth all-time on the Yankees’ profession house run checklist, then launched proper forward of Joe DiMaggio, too, and sits in fourth at 364: he will not get to Lou Gehrig’s 493 for a few years but.

With Choose seemingly recovered, 50 homers is much more possible than it was a few weeks again. It might be the fourth time he’s hit no less than that many in his profession. That will 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 12 months at a time, nonetheless: Choose can tie the document this season, and fear about breaking it down the highway.

Shohei Ohtani: 53 HR, 153/156 G, 55-HR Tempo

Ohtani had seen his tempo drop to 53 every week in the past, however then he mashed 4 homers to deliver him to 53 proper now with six video games to go. 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 present you a way of rarity, Wes Ferrell is the document holder for essentially the most house 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 examine him to himself. His earlier career-high for house runs in years by which he’s pitched is 46; once more, Ohtani is now on tempo for 55.

Kyle Schwarber: 52 HR, 156/156 G, 55-HR Tempo 

Schwarber had by no means hit 50 homers in a season earlier than. He is now at 53 for the season, becoming a member of Raleigh on the first-timer checklist – Schwarber is simply the thirty fourth participant in MLB historical past to hit 50 homers in a season, and getting there made 2025 the 14th season ever with no less than two 50-homer gamers, whereas Ohtani reaching the mark made it simply the third-ever marketing campaign with greater than two.

Schwarber has performed in each recreation for the Phillies so far. If Schwarber can get to 58 homers, he’ll tie the Phillies’ franchise mark set by Ryan Howard in 2006. Howard’s 58 ranks eighth all-time within the NL amongst single-season house run outputs, and is tied for twelfth all-time total in MLB – Schwarber may do much more than “simply” tie or exceed an area mark by maintaining the tempo.

Eugenio Suárez: 47 HR, 153/156 G, 49-HR Tempo

Suárez is one more potential first-time 50-homer participant: if Suárez makes it there after Raleigh and Schwarber, the 50-homer membership will leap to 35 members.

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.

Whereas Suárez at first struggled with Seattle following a deadline deal, after which picked up the tempo, that early stretch – mixed with one homer previously two weeks – has him just below a 50-homer tempo once more. Simply three extra, and he can be a part of historical past, although.

Junior Caminero: 44 HR, 148/156 G, 46-HR Tempo

Caminero is not on a 50-homer tempo, no, and is operating out of time to make it occur. If he and Suárez each made it to 50 homers, there can be 36 members of the 50-homer membership in MLB historical past, however Caminero must hit six extra to get there – not hitting a house run final week damage the probability of that.

Nonetheless, Caminero’s efficiency has been price monitoring given his speedy leap to 44 dingers: the Rays’ younger slugger had 27 by means of the top of July.

Most 50-Homer Gamers in a Season

There have by no means been 5 gamers hitting 50 house runs in the identical season: this group of 5 may make historical past there. Suárez has the longer highway amongst probably gamers as he wants three extra to achieve 50; Raleigh,Schwarber and Ohtani are already there, and Choose is one again.

If Suárez or Caminero fails to make it to 50 however Choose does, this may nonetheless be an distinctive incidence: there have been simply two seasons of 4 gamers with over 50 house runs, in 1998 and 2001, which means this is able to tie the prevailing document. In each situations, there have been two gamers with over 60 homers, with considered one of them hitting no less than 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. Raleigh may conceivably get to 60, himself, however Schwarber or Ohtani would want an all-time week to get there alongside him.

There have been simply 14 seasons with multiple 50-homer participant: 1938, 1947, 1961, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2017, 2024 and now 2025. There has by no means been a season with “simply” three 50-homer gamers: it has been one, two or 4, however 2025 may end as the primary.

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