Statcast Pitch Highlighter is an application to help you dissect at a very granular level pitch locations and spray charts. Garcia, however, took a whack and poked it 376 feetover the right field fence. First-pitch ambushx2. Right center side of center field. (OnlyHomers), The home run with the highest launch angle was 48 degrees. On April 17th, a total of just 15 homers were hit across 14 MLB games. 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. Oddly enough, Story is one of five Rockies who reside in the top 11 underachievers as far as expected home runs go. 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. @ronaldacunajr24 is BRINGING the power. Statcast measures the exit velocity and projected distance of Shohei Ohtani's 116.5 mph, 463-foot moonshot, his 33rd dinger of the season. 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. Ive never seen a ball go up there, Matheny said. Washington's star outfielder might have taken the crown Monday night, but the Derby was full of surprises -- from Rodriguez usurping back-to-back reigning champion Pete Alonso in the second round, to Albert Pujols upsetting Kyle Schwarber in the first round. Long rumored to be on the move to a team like the Yankees or Mets after failing to negotiate an extension in the offseason, Story could be in a completely different team context. His most difficult test might come in the first round against Acuna, but they've faced one another before, in 2019, and the Polar Bear came out on top. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). Stat cast is broken on the south side that was farther than 452' Salvy!! It's notthat uncommon (8.0 percent) that right-handed batters swing at pitches that far outside. Our goal is to put out the highest-quality content and tools. The mark for Wisdoms second HR, which landed in the bleachers, is taken from video. MLB Advanced Media owns the rights to the highlights Windy City Baseball 57K views 3 years. He's one of three rookies to do so, and both are contemporaries: Trevor Story did it in 2016, and Jose Abreu also hit 10 in 2014. Julio Rodriguezs first taste of big-league action included 28 homers and 25 stolen bases. That tied Barry Bonds for the most in MLB history. Admit it: You didn't even expect Pujols to get this far, did you? You can watch the highlight at the 1:24 mark of the video above. Among the tens of thousands of home runs hit during that period, only four others. However, his xSLG and xISO have gone down two straight seasons now rather than rebounding from 2020. 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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. Cron at Coors Field on September 9th. We want to see Soto hit a ball 515 feet, and we will. Someone, or something, got one or both of the initial data points wrong. 5. We want to see balls that never stop flying. After Suwinskis three-homer performance, Bryan Reynolds and Michael Perez each had one of their own. Mookie Betts finished his season with 35 home runs and 40 doubles for the Dodgers. The ball went 450 feet into left-center, helping Seattle come away with a 7-3 victory against the. by Handedness. Nomar Mazara: 505 feet, June 21, 2019, vs. CWSAfter crushing a a 482-foot shot on Opening Day in '19, Mazara topped himself for the Statcast record with a colossal smash against the White Sox. In 2017, Rafael Devers was playing in only his 15th game with the Boston Red Sox when he came up against New York Yankees closer andnoted velocity maestro Aroldis Chapman for the first time. The Polar Bear got it during his historic rookie season when he smashed a 489-foot moonshot against Twins reliever Matt Magill on July 17, 2019. And the longest: Schwarber is going to crack a 522-foot home run. New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge's prolific rookie season, and the home runs that come with it, have captivated fans across the country. are factored into these values. Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce went on a quest for a different kind of idol than the one Indiana Jones got in Raiders of the Lost Ark., Get in-depth, sideline coverage of Kansas City area sports - only $1 a month. (MLB Random Stats), Consistency, thy name is Albert. Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch out of Wrigley Stadium all together. Chiefs Travis Kelce channels Indiana Jones for new Saturday Night Live promo, Pro Football Hall of Fame is displaying gear worn by Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII, Greek prime minister welcomes Chiefs George Karlaftis for visit, celebrates Super Bowl win, Andy Reid says teams equipment manager had Chiefs ready for slippery Super Bowl field, One of Royals top prospects crushes home run, collects four RBIs in win over Guardians, The Chiefs are selling Super Bowl LVII championship flags. Then with the. That's still the fastest pitch hit for a home run since the Statcast era began in 2015. At least one fan in Yankee Stadium was utterly stunned. That's the highest pitch hit for a homer during the Statcast era. All Statcast data is current as of July 25, 2021 and data/graphs are taken from BaseballSavant.mlb.com, 12 HR - 20.1 xHR = 8.1 HR under expectation. As with most counting statistics, there is an expected version of home runs, appropriately labeled xHR. He'll do so again this year, thwarting NL East foe Soto in the finals. Edit:The Dodgers have acquired Trea Turner and activated Corey Seager as of July 30, which renders McKinstry irrelevant in fantasy altogether. Yeah right. The blast brought Judge back into a tie with Mike Trout for the major league lead in home runs. 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. 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. and play-by-play data provided by Sports Info Solutions. The future Hall of Famer ranks fifth out of this years contestants when it comes to biggest tape-measure homer in an MLB game. . The 2022 MLB All-Star Home Run Derby is underway with Mariners phenom Julio Rodriguez getting it started in Los Angeles. He's enjoying an 18.4% HR/FB rate that should decline. However, this is the lowest number the game has seen since 2015. 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. Devious us, we provided him the image without the distance scale. Its official distance, naturally, was 302 feet. Eight of baseballs premier sluggers are kicking off MLBs All-Star festivities in Los Angeles with the Home Run Derby on July 18. Judge had three RBIs off homers in this extra-inning win against the Orioles. (OnlyHomers), The home run with the lowest launch angle was 12 degrees. outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. It was also his 10th home run of the season, which tied the rookie record for home runs in April. It was much farther than that. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. 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. He'll crack a dozen in the first round, but Schwarber will knock him out. Soto moves on -- not even needing his 60 seconds of extra time to beat Ramirez. The mammoth shot is tied for the second-longest home run since Statcast started tracking homers in 2015. . Pujols crushed his record home run 459 feet off Taylor Rogers in a July 4 Angels-Twins game back in 2017. 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. So why are we including it? He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch out of Wrigley Stadium all together. He does have one claim to fame, though. It also happened in 2015 (41 homers, 90 RBI). Acua tore his ACL later that season and was unable to take the field during the Braves World Series run. 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. (Baseball Savant), The shortest home run traveled 271 feet. It might not have made it out in many other ballparks, and it remains the shortest homer of the season for Judge. Then there's the fact he's the eighth-biggest overachievers compared to expected home run rate. Some of us shed a few tears in that moment for Pujols. No. It's impressive no matter when he smacked it. We have a tie, as Schwarber goes 0-4 to end his round and remain tied with Pujols at 13 home runs. Crazy showing from the rookie. Hes the first player ever to finish with more than 25 in each category during his debut season. All distances according to baseball savant. Trout finished with 40 homers despite missing 43 games. 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). That's the second-longest average during the Statcast era. After a slow start when he called timeout with 1:44 remaining and just seven home runs, J-Rod found his groove -- and what a sweet-swinging groove it is. Some injuries are breaking out in Spring Training and none bigger than the one to Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux. Its the first time thats happened with two players at the age of 21 or younger. Judge added his 26th homer of the season Saturday at the expense of 32-year-old rookie Austin Bibens-Dirkx to get the Yankees on the board against the Rangers. Schoenfield: There have been only five home runs hit out of Dodger Stadium during an action game -- two by Willie Stargell and one each from Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Giancarlo Stanton. 3 spot on this list -- it also topped his previous career best by 37 feet. (The ball eventually bounded well down Kenmore, almost to the alley north of Waveland, nearly 100 more feet. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. He may have only hit 15 homers in 2022, but he sure did make them count. Cardinals lefty Jaime Garcia tried to go inside with a fastball on an 0-1 count, but Castro got his bat around and lofted it 364 feet over the left field wall. ESPN has it at 452 that seems short for sure. For that we used Statcasts own data for the Kris Bryant video board moonshot of September 6, 2015, still the longest Wrigley homer of the Statcast Era [VIDEO]. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. Smiting another Angel, Judge blasted his 25th homer of the season -- and 20th career in Yankee Stadium -- against veteran Jesse Chavez. 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. [21] Call 1-800-GAMBLER. No matter where he goes, power regression could be in store. 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. (FanGraphs), 4 MLB hitters slugged 40-plus homers. 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. How will that affect his power? (@Drianrogelio) July 26, 2021. With his victory over Seager, Rodriguez is the first Mariner to advance to the semifinals of the Derby since Griffey in 1998. So behold, here's one from Giancarlo Stanton. (tie) C.J. After hitting two Sunday, Judge kept at it Monday in Anaheim with his 22nd homer of the season. 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. Whoops. Getting a 91 mph fastball on a 1-1 count, Judge unloaded a 445-foot blast to left-center. We're not only going to see a few fly out of the ballpark during the contest, we're going to see a couple longer than 506. 4. (OnlyHomers), The longest average home run distance was 428 feet. Only Trevor Story's 454-foot average distance in 2018 is better. 1. The "Statcast era" encompasses six full MLB seasons (2015-2019, 2021) and two partial ones (2020 and 2022). He went opposite field off Matt Andriese in the top of the second for his fifth home run of the month. 27 was a two-run homer that capped a five-run sixth against White Sox reliever Jake Petricka, breaking open a 3-2 game. The best pure hitter of this generation against one of the most illustrious derby competitors ever, in a rematch of last year's semifinals from Coors Field. But he wasn't done yet on this day. A pity, on both counts. As you heard, Bally Sports Kansas Citys Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler had never seen a ball hit that far at Guaranteed Rate Field. Ads help us pay RotobBaller's award-winning writers as much as possible they are vital to the site's operations and team. Definition Projected Home Run Distance represents the distance a home run ball would travel if unhindered by obstructions such as stadium seats or walls. Judge hit his 24th homer off a 93 mph fastball from Angels righty Parker Bridwell in the rookie's second start of the season. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. He is second in the majors with 28 homers and also has the third-longest home run of the 2022 MLB season, ripping a. against the Colorado Rockies on April 20. first baseman owns the longest in-game home run of any player competing in this years Derby. There's no real need to react here if Turner is on your roster, as he's still batting .301 and is far from dependent on power alone. Cron earned his first All-Star appearance for his efforts in 2022 and now sits just . One Giancarlo Stanton laser has to be seen to be believed. It also broke a tie with Albert Pujols for the second-most home runs by the end of May by a rookie; Mark McGwire holds the record with 19 in 1987. J-Rod puts the pressure on the reigning champ. You can see in the chart above the leaders from the 2020 season. Everyone knows Judge has power, but 438 feet worth of opposite-field power is something else. So what happened? To these ends, these dingers are all truly one of a kind. 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. Judge's home run gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead over the rival Red Sox, and New York improved to 7-0 in games when Judge hits a homer. And then we shed a few more when all the All-Stars surrounded Pujols before his final 30 seconds to honor one of the great careers in major league history. It was an organic moment of appreciation as Pujols winds down his final season in baseball. 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. Rodriguez was 6 months old when Pujols made his first All-Star Game as a rookie in 2001. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. 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. What's the old saw about doing something twice on Sunday? If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far Perez hit that ball, check out this video of the longest home runs at Guaranteed Rate Field. It's a record that will surely stand unbroken forever, and not necessarily just for reasons mentioned above. Make that 8-0. The New York Mets first baseman owns the longest in-game home run of any player competing in this years Derby. Justin Carlson (@HickCar25) August 2, 2022 If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far. Poor Dylan Covey. 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. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. teams who hit 200-plus homers. Plenty of souvenirs will be launched into the crowd, and some may reach the nosebleeds or even leave Dodger Stadium entirely. by giving an educated guess as to its true distance, the longest Wrigley homer of the Statcast Era [VIDEO], BCB After Dark: Making things right (field), Seiya Suzuki has withdrawn from the World Baseball Classic and is out indefinitely. The longest of those was one of Stargell's at an estimated 506 feet. Three home runs in four games since his return. (Christopher Kamka), 2022 MLB Home Run Leaders: Each Teams HR King, Most Consecutive Games With a Home Run: Top 35. It was a moment for all baseball fans: The game's next great star is here. 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. It's also one of a very few hits, period, against pitches of at least 102 mph. Gonzalez: I have him shocking everybody by defeating Schwarber, the NL's home run leader, in the first round. We know he can do that. The liner rose only 59 feet above the field and was the fourth-hardest-hit homer of the season at 118.4 mph. The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. Pirates rookie Jack Suwinski enjoyed a three-homer performance on June 19th. Passan: The prodigious power of Soto is so free, so easy, one takes it for granted.
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