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Stanton leads the team with 38 home runs — including one on Saturday — which is fantastic but it’s a far cry from 59.
Tyler Kepner has covered the Yankees for The New York Times since 2002. A native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Kepner has also covered the Angels for the Riverside Press-Enterprise in California and the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children. • Gary Sheffield hit 42 for the Marlins, but his career high was 43 with the Dodgers. • Albert Belle hit 49 for the White Sox, but his career high was 50 with the Indians.
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Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Try to name the career home run leader for each Major League baseball team. An earlier version erroneously stated that Sammy Sosa hit the most home runs in a season for the Chicago Cubs with 64 and that Alfonso Soriano hit the most in a season for the Washington Nationals with 51. • Steve Balboni hit 36 for the Royals but only 181 total for this career and only 119 for K.C.
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• Todd Helton shares a single-season leadership but owns the Rockies’ all-time career mantle. There are a few players on the list who are still active, but only Griffey and Todd Helton , of the Rockies, are active with the teams in which they lead and therefore could be moving their teams up the list. Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images.
Against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, the 265th of the season hit by the Yankees. That surpassed the 1997 Seattle Mariners for the most in MLB history. Players are placed at the position they played the most that season. I got them all, it still stuns me that a franchise as relatively old as the Padres (50 years this year!) has never kept a good power hitter long enough to pass Nate Colbert with such a middling total.
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I hope it doesn't escape anyone's notice that Tim Salmon's team record will likely be broken in the next few years by Mike Trout. This is exactly why I wish this site wouldn't shy away so much from older trivia. While it's great to get 5 points on a quiz and/or get 'em all right, it shouldn't merely be about reaffirming how much you know, but expanding your knowledge base so that afterward, you know more. Just because it happened before 1975 doesn't mean it isn't just as epic as whatever headline happened last year. 27/30; only because I'm an old codger and with the exception of Babe Ruth the rest of them played within my lifetime.
The New York Yankees set a major league record on the season’s penultimate day, hitting more home runs than any team in baseball history. While there are a number of ties, I found it more interesting to note that Junior Griffey hit his 56 in back-to-back seasons in ’97 and ’98. Harmon Killebrew tied his 1964 record in 1969 for the Twins. The Rockies and the Mets are the only teams with shared leaders. Voit hit five home runs in 70 games in parts of two seasons with St. Louis, and all he’s done with the Yankees is hit 13 home runs in 38 games with a whopping .672 slugging percentage.
Not surprisingly, the bottom 10 team leaders are all expansion clubs. Jim Thome, another future Hall of Famer, leads the Cleveland Indians. Instead of looking at them by sheer individual totals, they are presented here by their total contribution to one team, and in that view, some interesting and unpredictable patterns emerge.
If SB or CS data is missing, the "basic" formula is used. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Joined the Yankees in an August 31 trade, and though he has only been goatee-less in pinstripes for 25 games he has contributed five home runs to the cause.
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Colbert was a slugger for the Padres from the early 70s. Colbert is one of only 2 players, along with Stan Musial, to hit 5 home runs over the course of a double-header. If the stories are true, Colbert, who grew up in St. Louis, attended the DH in which Musial hit 5.
No player has ever hit more than 4 HRs in a single game. Become a Stathead today and run queries with our Season and Career Finders to see the best seasons in MLB history. • Brady Anderson hit 50 for the Orioles but only 210 total for this career, all but one for Baltimore.
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