If it's still true that chicks dig the long ball, then cheep cheep, my farm friends, because we're bringing you a slight hiatus from the postseason madness in the form of the 13 biggest home run blasts of the 2024 regular season. You might be wondering why we're going with 13 instead of, oh I don't know, a nice round number like 10. Well, it's because there were precisely 13 home runs that traveled at least 470 feet this season.
It is a nice round 10 unique players, though. So, consider this your warning that if you're fed up with hearing about Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge and were hoping to read something not involving them for a change, better luck next time. The inevitable AL MVP hit three moonshots this season, while the inevitable NL MVP had a pair of them.
Home runs are presented in ascending order of distance traveled, culminating in a surprising winner that wasn't hit by Judge or Ohtani, nor at Coors Field. Tale of the Tape : 470 feet off Cal Quantrill at Chicago's Guaranteed Rate Field on June 29 The Tape : Luis Robert Jr.'s 470-foot HR Fondly memorable moments were few and far between for the woebegone, 121-loss Chicago White Sox this season, but Robert did deliver a dynamite one in the sixth inning of what proved to be a rare third consecutive win for the South Siders.
To that point in the game, Quantrill had Robert's number. He whiffed on a splitter in the first inning, struck out looking at a questionable call on a cutter in the fourth and flailed at a curveball.