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. His home run is one of just 10 hits against pitches of at least 4.5 feet in height, not to mention one of only two extra-base hits. 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. Sam Haggerty of the Seattle Mariners accomplished this on July 14th. Soler might jack a few more homers, but his production at this point is easily replaceable off the waiver wire without the batting average sink. Most of the players on the field at Dodger Stadium encircled the future Hall of Fame first baseman and began to applaud. We want to see Soto hit a ball 515 feet, and we will. The ball went 450 feet into left-center, helping Seattle come away with a 7-3 victory against the. Devious us, we provided him the image without the distance scale. It was the shortened 2020 season when he hit six. So far, Wrigley is playing as a top-12 park in terms of HR Park Factor so there aren't any teams that would realistically acquire him that would provide an edge in home stadium. Trout finished with 40 homers despite missing 43 games. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. As with most counting statistics, there is an expected version of home runs, appropriately labeled xHR. (tie) Ryan McMahon: 495 feet, Aug. 9, 2022, vs. STLMcMahon crushed an 82 mph, low-and-inside changeup 495 feet for the longest home run by a Rockie in the Statcast era. Off those, the league. 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. Hes the first player ever to finish with more than 25 in each category during his debut season. Among all home runs that were hit 113 mph and at a 27-degree launch angle, Trout's 473-foot big fly traveled the furthest. Gambling problem? 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. He hits them a long way.". 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. Judge followed up his first homer of the season with a high-flying blast in an 8-1 win against the Tampa Bay Rays. Along with his 40 homers, Trout drove in just 80 runs. Join the Best Live Fantasy Chat Community! Gonzalez: Soto was not happy to be thrown into trade rumors right before the All-Star break, and this is the perfect place for the game's best pure hitter to channel his anger. If this doesnt feel like a lot to you, its because its the fewest number of players to slug at least 30 homers in a season since 2015. He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. The Yankees were on a seven-game winning streak and about to make it eight in a row when Judge sent one a long way. "Balls with that trajectory, for a lot of guys it doesn't go out. It was also his 10th home run of the season, which tied the rookie record for home runs in April. Our goal is to put out the highest-quality content and tools. Once we make it past the All-Star break and a player is still below the .200 mark, most fantasy managers have moved on. Martinez (2017), and Nelson Cruz (2019). To bring some of those things to life, weve compiled a list of 25 interesting stats and facts about home runs in 2022. BCB After Dark: A tale of two outfielders. 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). The left-handed slugger unloaded on a 94.7-mph fastball from Reynaldo Lpez and sent it soaring into the upper deck in right field at Globe Life Park in Arlington. Heres why you shouldnt always believe the Statcast home run distance numbers, Cubs 5, Mariners 3: A little bit of this, a little bit of that. 47 6 thatphanom.techno@gmail.com 042-532028 , 042-532027 Check. It was much farther than that. This was accomplished by Ronald Acua Jr. As recently as 2019, there were 24 (!) pic.twitter.com/UeoxyXHABp, Drian Bernal / ???? Nobody tell @Pete_Alonso20 the Derby is over. Schoenfield: How about a passing of the torch? Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch, slugger hit his biggest homer at Miller Park in 2019. He started out hitting a series of high fly balls that scraped over the fence, transitioned into some low screaming liners that cleared the fence and then started bashing a few that cleared the whole dang stadium. The distance of each long fly is measured against every Major League ballpark to determine whether it would have cleared the fence or not. Two division rivals going at it. (Alonso remains tied with Yoenis Cespedes and Ken Griffey Jr. with two titles in a row.) 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. 8. ESPN Stats . With 24 homers in his final season, it was Albert Pujols 21st year with 15-plus homers. 10 is a 453-foot homer by Miguel Cabrera and there is simply no way his home run traveled a foot farther than Perezs bomb on Monday night. What's the one moment we'll all be talking about long after this HR derby ends? We need your support to make FanGraphs sustainable so you can continue to enjoy all of the stats and tools you've come to rely on, like The . Rodriguez hit 16 more in that 1:44 then added eight in his minute of extra time to finish with 31. Ive never seen a ball go up there, Matheny said. After the league saw a record of 6,776 balls fly out of the yard in 2019, that number has decreased drastically. Outside The Confines: Casualties of Spring Training. The other time was in 2021 by Miguel Rojas and Jonathan Villar. Getting a 91 mph fastball on a 1-1 count, Judge unloaded a 445-foot blast to left-center. This inside-the-parker traveled just 288 feet. We're not far removed from the Home Run Derby so it seems like an appropriate time to examine the Statcast side of home run production for some big-name players. 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. It was the longest homer of Acuas career and the fourth-longest home run of the 2021 MLB season. 27 was a two-run homer that capped a five-run sixth against White Sox reliever Jake Petricka, breaking open a 3-2 game. Balls hit at14 degrees or lower have gone for a solid .332 batting average, but with just a .379 slugging percentage. When Snider accomplished this feat, the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. The initial shot by Wisdom is the real subject here. It ended up on the stairs going up to the fan deck. Schwarber has kept his slugging this season. 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. Another major trade candidate who makes the xHR leaderboard, this time on the flip side. Schoenfield: One and done. 603 for The Machine. Since the enlargement of the bleachers and the addition of the video boards, on-street home runs at Wrigley have become a rarity. It remains Judge's longest home run of the season. (tie) Joey Gallo: 495 feet, July 20, 2018, vs. CLEGallo's moonshot is the most clutch homer on this list, as it came off Indians closer Cody Allen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. Asked after the game if he had ever been this hot at the plate, Judge replied, "Maybe T-ball.". Statcast Game Preview: Texas Rangers at San Diego Padres - 2023-03-01 | MLB.com However, it was enough to keep us busy between April and November. After bashing 30-plus home runs in each of the first two rounds on Monday night, Rodriguez looked a little gassed when he hit just 18 homers to start the final -- and it cost him. Anyone with bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium on Monday better bring a glove. The Cubs will need someone to step up while their Japanese star is out. Like any typical year, baseballs regular season and postseason were full of home runs for us to admire. Then with the. Bryant has rebounded well from last year's disaster but not to his previous levels. The Washington Nationals outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. Kasper: Perez got a lot of it. 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. 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. It's also worth noting that his lineup support keeps deteriorating. Pirates rookie Jack Suwinski enjoyed a three-homer performance on June 19th. 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. (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. Odds & lines subject to change. The 374-foot shot off Sean Manaea at Oakland Coliseum was Judge's third shortest of the season. Check. Find peace -- and, with it, bring anyone who is watching pleasure. Acua, along with everybody else at Truist Park on April 27, 2021, knew this ball was gone. After hitting two Sunday, Judge kept at it Monday in Anaheim with his 22nd homer of the season. 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. The other home run, allowing for the extrapolation, seems reasonable. To celebrate the midsummer festivities, we asked ESPN MLB experts Alden Gonzalez, Buster Olney, Jeff Passan and David Schoenfield for their pre-Derby predictions and post-Derby takeaways. No matter where he goes, power regression could be in store. If anything, moving to a winning squad with better lineup support could do wonders for his RBI totals. Major League and Minor League Baseball data provided by Major League Baseball. How about the center-field scoreboard? At 24 years old, hes the youngest White Sox hitter to lead the team in both categories since Frank Thomas did it in 1991 as a 23-year-old. pic.twitter.com/lfTmMKZNer. Juan Soto is your 2022 MLB Home Run Derby champ! It's a wonder that Trumbo even swung at it, given that pitches that are more than 4.5 feet high have drawn swings only 1.4 percent of the time. A GRAND SLAM to Waveland Avenue. Definition Projected Home Run Distance represents the distance a home run ball would travel if unhindered by obstructions such as stadium seats or walls. It was a moment for all baseball fans: The game's next great star is here. Statcast has him under 13 homers, which would move him out of the top-30 power hitters outside of the top 75. I think it was further. Yet Trumbo did hit one homer worthy of a spit take off Gio Gonzalez on May 8. Alonso gets knocked out by Rodriguez at 23 home runs. This metric is determined by finding the parabolic arc of the baseball and projecting the remainder of its flight path. He's the most prolific home run hitter on the planet. The Cleveland third baseman entered as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning against the. He came within one game of the record for most consecutive games with a dinger. Of course, in 1921, the board, like interleague play, wasnt even in existence. Acua tore his ACL later that season and was unable to take the field during the Braves World Series run. 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. 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