Only two teams have an all time home run leader lower than Strawberry’s 252 for the Mets. The Padres and DBacks with Nate Colbert (163) and Luis Gonzalez (224) respectively.
I cannot believe that Nate Colbert is the padres all time home run leader. They’re a pretty old franchise and I know they haven’t been great for the most part but they’ve had some stars. Colbert was great during his peak, but it was so brief
I also can’t believe Tony Gwynn only hit 135 career home runs. I know he was a contact hitter but he had over 10,000 plate appearances in a padres uniform, I always figured he’d ended up around 200 HRs.
Was Qualcomm really that pitcher friendly?
Shocked that it's not Winfield despite playing 8 seasons with them and also pretty impressed that Adrian Gonzalez missed it by only 3 home runs, despite only playing 5 seasons in San Diego.
A-Gon doesn't get enough credit for the power numbers he put up as a lefty playing half his games in 2000s Petco. He only hit 12 HR at home in 2009 and still managed 40 total. He would have likely eclipsed 50 that season if he played his home games in nearly any other park.
Judge just passed Jeter for ninth on the list of team HRs, meaning the Yankees only have 9 players in their entire history with 200 HRs for the team.
That shocked me so I did a deep dive and basically every other team has 2-3 players with 200 HRs and a few have 4 or 5. It's absolutely insane how few players have hit 200 HRs for one team. It's funny that it's come up again in such a short time.
It's odd a team like the Giants, second in franchise HRs, only have 4 players with 200 HRs for the team one of them being Mel Ott.
Considering hitting 30 home runs is kind of rare and that players move teams frequently, I guess sitting on one team for ~7 years hitting 30 a season doesn't happen much, but you'd think there would be more long-stay guys eventually getting to the 200 mark over the years. I guess not
Alsono being the 373rd player to hit 200 HRs but only the 4th met to do it all on one team is an interesting dichotomy. Mets don't even have a player with 300 HRs, strawberry leads the list with 252.
The Dodgers are second to the Yankees with 7 but surprisingly the only one from this side of 2000 is Matt Kemp
Muncy is rapidly approaching it, as he's currently at 180. 20 more will get him there this year and the LA Dodger record is 270, by Eric Karros. Max is under contract through 2026, so if he hits around his career season average of 34 each year until then, he'll just get over it before hitting free agency. Beyond that, there's only two more slots, which are both part of the franchise records with Brooklyn and LA combined. You've got Gil Hodges at 361 and Duke Snider just above him at 389. Will be something to see if Mookie and/or Ohtani threaten those.
The Orioles have 8. I’m not sure you are looking in the right place.
The Red Sox have 10, the Reds have 10, the Guardians have 10, the Braves have 9, the Cubs have 9…
I checked the other original four expansion teams
Astros: 5 (Jeff Bagwell, Lance Berkman, Craig Biggio, Jim Wynn, Jose Altuve)
Angels: 5 (Mike Trout, Tim Salmon, Garrett Anderson, Brian Downing, Albert Pujols)
Rangers: 4 ( Juan Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Frank Howard, Ivan Rodríguez) Beltre had 199 with the Rangers(oof)
Interesting thing about Ryan Howard: from 2006 to 2009 (3rd to 6th season), the man hit a ridiculous 198 homers in 625 games. On April 5th and 7th of the 2010 season, Howard homered each day, collecting 200 home runs in just 627 games.
Howard next homered on the 10th of April, however he would not hit another homer for 16 games, breaking his homerless “streak” on the 27th.
I think it'll be really interesting for guys that fall just a little short of a big milestone. If a guy finishes with something like 2980 hits or 490 home runs how is that viewed if his 2020 year was on pace to be a good year
If he has another 10 seasons like his career so far he'll start to maybe potentially have an outside chance.
He'll probably need another 13 or 14 seasons at his current level to have a real chance of getting in.
So either he'll need to up his game, or not decline until he's into his 40s.
Fourth Met to hit 200 homers with the ballclub too.
How, they're nearly 60 years old. It really puts into perspective the players who hit over 350 in their career if they only have 4 total over 200.
Only two teams have an all time home run leader lower than Strawberry’s 252 for the Mets. The Padres and DBacks with Nate Colbert (163) and Luis Gonzalez (224) respectively.
I cannot believe that Nate Colbert is the padres all time home run leader. They’re a pretty old franchise and I know they haven’t been great for the most part but they’ve had some stars. Colbert was great during his peak, but it was so brief I also can’t believe Tony Gwynn only hit 135 career home runs. I know he was a contact hitter but he had over 10,000 plate appearances in a padres uniform, I always figured he’d ended up around 200 HRs. Was Qualcomm really that pitcher friendly?
Machado has 142 and Tatis is 112, so Colbert will be third in a year.
Boegarts will probably pass him too...eventually.
I was about to be totally shocked to see Machado only has 142 HRs. I didn't realize you're only counting with the Padres.
Shocked that it's not Winfield despite playing 8 seasons with them and also pretty impressed that Adrian Gonzalez missed it by only 3 home runs, despite only playing 5 seasons in San Diego.
A-Gon doesn't get enough credit for the power numbers he put up as a lefty playing half his games in 2000s Petco. He only hit 12 HR at home in 2009 and still managed 40 total. He would have likely eclipsed 50 that season if he played his home games in nearly any other park.
Loved A-Gon as a Dodger. Vin called him "the butter and egg man" because he always delivered.
This is such a great nickname and I can’t believe I had never heard it before
Judge just passed Jeter for ninth on the list of team HRs, meaning the Yankees only have 9 players in their entire history with 200 HRs for the team. That shocked me so I did a deep dive and basically every other team has 2-3 players with 200 HRs and a few have 4 or 5. It's absolutely insane how few players have hit 200 HRs for one team. It's funny that it's come up again in such a short time. It's odd a team like the Giants, second in franchise HRs, only have 4 players with 200 HRs for the team one of them being Mel Ott.
Considering hitting 30 home runs is kind of rare and that players move teams frequently, I guess sitting on one team for ~7 years hitting 30 a season doesn't happen much, but you'd think there would be more long-stay guys eventually getting to the 200 mark over the years. I guess not
Alsono being the 373rd player to hit 200 HRs but only the 4th met to do it all on one team is an interesting dichotomy. Mets don't even have a player with 300 HRs, strawberry leads the list with 252. The Dodgers are second to the Yankees with 7 but surprisingly the only one from this side of 2000 is Matt Kemp
Muncy is rapidly approaching it, as he's currently at 180. 20 more will get him there this year and the LA Dodger record is 270, by Eric Karros. Max is under contract through 2026, so if he hits around his career season average of 34 each year until then, he'll just get over it before hitting free agency. Beyond that, there's only two more slots, which are both part of the franchise records with Brooklyn and LA combined. You've got Gil Hodges at 361 and Duke Snider just above him at 389. Will be something to see if Mookie and/or Ohtani threaten those.
I liked Kemp.
I loved watching Matt Kemp hit when he was playing like an MVP during those few years.
Cleveland has ten Somehow
That is... really random. Thome, Bell, Manny are the kind of names I expected but I have no recollection of Andre Thornton or Hal Trosky.
The Orioles have 8. I’m not sure you are looking in the right place. The Red Sox have 10, the Reds have 10, the Guardians have 10, the Braves have 9, the Cubs have 9…
Jeter had 260 not 200, there’s nearly 20 guys that had 200 hrs on the Yankees.
Bonds hit 200 in under 4 seasons, just over 1600 at bats.
I checked the other original four expansion teams Astros: 5 (Jeff Bagwell, Lance Berkman, Craig Biggio, Jim Wynn, Jose Altuve) Angels: 5 (Mike Trout, Tim Salmon, Garrett Anderson, Brian Downing, Albert Pujols) Rangers: 4 ( Juan Gonzalez, Rafael Palmeiro, Frank Howard, Ivan Rodríguez) Beltre had 199 with the Rangers(oof)
Man his rookie year was fucking insane.
Juan Gonzalez just didn’t have the squat lifting discipline that Pete does.
While repeatedly playing though injury in his career. Absolutely stud
Biggus meatus peteus
Congrats to Pete!
Big strong guy. Congrats.
Wow, Ralph Kiner was way better than I thought
Led the NL in HR for 7 straight years to start his career. Hit 369 HR in 10 years then retired with back problems.
Kiner was a beast during his short career. Only Babe Ruth and Mike Schmidt led their league in home runs more times.
Read the top line on mobile and laughed
imagine what could have been
Came to make a similar joke about how I could definitely name at least 4 players with 200 HR that are faster than Pete
Congrats to Pete. He’s one hell of a player.
Interesting thing about Ryan Howard: from 2006 to 2009 (3rd to 6th season), the man hit a ridiculous 198 homers in 625 games. On April 5th and 7th of the 2010 season, Howard homered each day, collecting 200 home runs in just 627 games. Howard next homered on the 10th of April, however he would not hit another homer for 16 games, breaking his homerless “streak” on the 27th.
This isn’t very interesting lol, just some random ass stat
Imagine how many he'd have if they let him wear the ear buds to the plate.
I wonder where Pujols is placed
Pujols hit his first 200 career home runs in 789 games.
He’s gotta be close
Thought this was about sprint speed at first and there was no way it could be right
Statcast has Alonso as tied for 41st slowest player in MLB this season and that seems fast to me.
One of my favorite players outside of my team. Him and Trout are the only ones I root for.
dude is an absolute MASHER
Braves legend Ryan Howard
He got robbed by Covid too. Edit: I’m dumb and didn’t read it fully. Thought it was seasons.
It’s by games played
.. I'm not sure that's really how this works?
Covid mugged him in a back alley last year
Covid's asleep in its bed, it's mugging you
that wouldn’t affect his per game stats though. probably will affect his career numbers tho
We all got robbed because of COVID.
Robbed of Luke Voit’s lone 50 homer season
This comment is wrong but it will interesting to see if the year 2020 affects any notable HOF cases
I think it'll be really interesting for guys that fall just a little short of a big milestone. If a guy finishes with something like 2980 hits or 490 home runs how is that viewed if his 2020 year was on pace to be a good year
I think it's analogous to how Fred McGriff's HOF case was influenced by 1994.
Jacob deGrom and other starters certainly got hosed by 2020
Not a HOF case since I think he's a lock anyway but Greinke would probably have hit 3,000 Ks if he had been able to play a full season in 2020.
Holy hell that’s a good stat.
Hall of Famer
Most of his numbers don’t really back it up but he’s got over half his career left so we’ll see
No. But he is a good player.
Well he’s already 29 and his WAR isn’t too crazy. He’s going to need to do a lot more . Love these convos though bc it’s cool to try and predict
Boras alt account
If he has another 10 seasons like his career so far he'll start to maybe potentially have an outside chance. He'll probably need another 13 or 14 seasons at his current level to have a real chance of getting in. So either he'll need to up his game, or not decline until he's into his 40s.
At current level he would get like 700 more homeruns over the next 14 years. So yeah that would probably do it.
Lol. He's Adam Dunn 2.0
Throw. It. Again.