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. Find peace -- and, with it, bring anyone who is watching pleasure. 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. Two years ago, we marked the 20th anniversary of Glenallen Hills celebrated (pre-Statcast)rooftop home run, by giving an educated guess as to its true distance. 5th street home run of 2022. Some injuries are breaking out in Spring Training and none bigger than the one to Dodgers shortstop Gavin Lux. Mookie Betts finished his season with 35 home runs and 40 doubles for the Dodgers. During his seven-game home run streak, Trout posted a 1.648 OPS with 11 RBI and 10 runs scored. Rodriguez's first round of 32 home runs was spectacular, and when he raised his arms in triumph, it wasn't just a moment for him or even Mariners fans. (tie) Ronald Acua Jr.: 495 feet, Sept. 25, 2020, vs. BOSAcua had already proven his power had matured to another level when he went 473 feet off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole earlier in the 2020 season. Soto had registered only 10 home runs before taking a timeout with 32 seconds left in regulation, then he proceeded to hit five more -- the last one at the buzzer. Now, lets give the Statcast data for the two HRs, remembering that they extrapolate final distance for home runs, not necessarily where they first touch an obstruction. Standing in the box opposite Cardinals right-hander Mitch Harris, the then-Tigers slugger found himself looking at an 89.0 mph fastball over the inside edge. Bryant has rebounded well from last year's disaster but not to his previous levels. 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. The key word in that sentence is estimate, because no one believed that a home run hit Monday night by Royals catcher Salvador Perez traveled only 452 feet. He is the second Washington Nationals player to win the event (Bryce Harper won in 2018) and first Dominican-born champion since Robinson Cano (2011). Asked after the game if he had ever been this hot at the plate, Judge replied, "Maybe T-ball.". For raw distance, we can use our concentric scale; an unobstructed 575-footer, hit to straightaway center (as in Detroit) would land just across the Waveland/Sheffield intersection. Mazara tops the list, but in seven seasons Statcast has measured a plethora of neck-craning shots that have to be seen to be believed. Judge made his mark on Independence Day. 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. Along with his 40 homers, Trout drove in just 80 runs. Now we have the game's next big star on center stage. Guess who's on site today: The Kid himself. Justin Carlson (@HickCar25) August 2, 2022 If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far. I am not convinced Salvy didn't just hit a 600 foot home run and big statcast just doesn't want the truth to get out there. Judge tied Joe DiMaggio's Yankees rookie record , set in 1936, by hitting his league-leading 29th home run against the Blue Jays. A table displaying leaders in Statcast metrics such as Sweet Spot % (SwSp%), Barrels, Exit Velocity (EV), Batted Ball Distance (DST), Projected Home Run Distance (HR-DST), Launch Angle (LA) and Batted Ball Events (BBE) . The thin Colorado air doesn't sway the expectations for Story (-8 HR-xHR - first), Garrett Hampson (-7 HR-xHR - second), Charlie Blackmon (-5 HR-xHR - fifth), C.J. On September 16th, Yordan Alvarez enjoyed a three-homer night. Not one of his long balls has been a 'no-doubter' which shouldn't be surprising for a guy whose game power grades out at 35. Heres the monster home run against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. Martinez's home run on May 15, 2015, they might have been onto something in thinking that it was "too high.". He pulled a 464-foot bomb against Humberto Mejia for his second home run of the game in a 3-0 win for Los Angeles. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. The Pirates became the first MLB team to have three players do this in the same month. Once we make it past the All-Star break and a player is still below the .200 mark, most fantasy managers have moved on. (FanGraphs), 23 players reached the 30-homer plateau. (The ball eventually bounded well down Kenmore, almost to the alley north of Waveland, nearly 100 more feet.) 603 for The Machine. pic.twitter.com/e53aeAcHCe. He came within one game of the record for most consecutive games with a dinger. Schwarber has kept his slugging this season. Nomar Mazara hit a 505-foot (154 m) home run with the Texas Rangers to set the record for the longest distance measured by Statcast in the major leagues. As well see soon enough, it wasnt nearly as many as weve seen in the recent past. On June 30, Statcast laid an eighteen-inches-off-the-plate-called-strike-three whopper on us, and its time we recalcitrant old-schoolers had a whole lotta fun with it. The other home run, allowing for the extrapolation, seems reasonable. He uses eyewitness descriptions and old maps to calculate the distance (funny how that works). Sam Haggerty of the Seattle Mariners accomplished this on July 14th. Most of the players on the field at Dodger Stadium encircled the future Hall of Fame first baseman and began to applaud. Judge tacked on his 21st homer of the season in the latest Bronx romp to spoil Yankees fans. Before his 60-second bonus time, he was only three away from Rodriguez's final round total. 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. You can watch the highlight at the 1:24 mark of the video above. Oddly enough, Story is one of five Rockies who reside in the top 11 underachievers as far as expected home runs go. Brewers 6, Cubs 3: An opportunity for Nelson Velzquez. Gambling problem? 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. You can toggle the input boxes to help further dissect the pitches and spray. pic.twitter.com/lfTmMKZNer. (MLB Random Stats) On April 23rd, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ozzie Albies both hit leadoff homers on the first pitch they saw. It was much farther than that. Don't ever underestimate Pujols' pride and competitiveness. (Sarah Langs), Pirates hit the trifecta for three-homer games in one month. He knows how to win the derby, seeing as he's done so the past two times. All of Judge's 6-foot-7 frame got behind this one. This three-run homer easily made the third deck in left at Target Field, and it made San the fifth Twins player that season to reach 30 homers -- an MLB record. Heres what each of the full seasons have looked like: This moonshot was provided by C.J. According to the somewhat limited info Statcast offers on MLBsites, it measures launch angle and exit velocity, and extrapolates everything else from there. His solo shot off Mychal Givens in the eighth inning tied the score between Baltimore and New York and set up a 7-3 Yankees win. But this was an even more epic shot off Boston's Chris Mazza, reaching the concourse behind the seats in left-center field at Truist Park to give the Braves a 1-0 lead after just one at-bat. Garcia, however, took a whack and poked it 376 feetover the right field fence. He didnt need the benefit of Coors Field, either, taking Jon Gray deep at Nationals Park. However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. The xHR stat is actually one of the simpler Statcast metrics. Devious us, we provided him the image without the distance scale. It was the shortened 2020 season when he hit six. Heres how to get one, Fans who buy tickets to Royals opener may receive special Bobby Witt Jr. bobblehead. It wasn't a dominant round, but the dream for a three-peat lives on. This included the Yankees and Twins both going over 300 dingers. Just like in the 2019 Home Run Derby, Alonso has the edge over Acua. All major league baseball data including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, Rojas is a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which has worked against him for all counting stats including homers. The rookie has a bit of clutch in him, too; his sixth-inning two-run shot came with two outs and turned a 9-2 deficit into a five-run game. The second-inning grand salami helped the Cubs earn an 11-4 victory over their NL Central rival. The former of those figures qualifies Stanton's laser as having the lowest launch angle of any over-the-fence (i.e., not inside-the-park) home run since 2015. Pitches as far inside as the one that Castro hit are swung at by right-handed batters just0.1 percent of the time. A few months after Mark Trumbo reached for the proverbial skies for a home run in 2017, Odubel Herrera practically went underground for one of his own. That Trumbo also managed to hit it is downright mind-boggling. It was an organic moment of appreciation as Pujols winds down his final season in baseball. 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. Right center side of center field. Soto, who would later defeat Pujols in Round 2, fanned him off with his cap. Gonzalez: I have him shocking everybody by defeating Schwarber, the NL's home run leader, in the first round. Albert Pujols is participating in his final Home Run Derby tonight, what are your predictions for the 42-year-old? The 21-year-old phenom put together one of the most impressive rounds in Home Run Derby history, finishing with 32 home runs. Schoenfield: It's the year of the Mariners! 1. It rivals Deadball Era and Modern Era as citations. Not including the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, this was the sixth straight season with at least 5,000 dingers. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. For every home run hit in Major League Baseball, Statcast provides an estimate of how far the ball traveled. It was a moment for all baseball fans: The game's next great star is here. = 110mph exit velocity = 440ft distance . While Rodriguez may draw the ire of the crowd for ousting Seager, a longtime Dodger, in the first round, he'll win them back with a show in the next round only to be thwarted by the champ not yet ready to cede his crown. This one hit the front wall of the Yankee Stadium outfield concourse so hard, it bounced back into play. Teams like the Braves and Mets are rumored to be the leading pursuers for his services. 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. (ESPN Stats & Info), A first in Los Angeles. Brother statcast is trying to tell us this ball went only 452ftSo this ball only went 52 feet behind the 400ft fence? Rodriguez hit 16 more in that 1:44 then added eight in his minute of extra time to finish with 31. Rodriguez was 6 months old when Pujols made his first All-Star Game as a rookie in 2001. Before the All-Star field of eight gets into the batters box for this years Derby, lets look at every participants longest home run of the Statcast era: Ramrezs longest MLB home run came in a pretty inconsequential spot. However, it was enough to keep us busy between April and November. It was his seventh opposite-field homer of the season. * Stats Include Regular and Postseason 2022 Batters All Teams Minimum HR: 0 Update Since the enlargement of the bleachers and the addition of the video boards, on-street home runs at Wrigley have become a rarity. 473 feet! He knows this event, having competed in the first timed derby in 2015, and it'll be Soto who swiftly eliminates him in Round 2. The Cubs will need someone to step up while their Japanese star is out. You get the feeling he might just be warming up for some titanic home runs in the next two rounds. The homer with the lowest launch angle that left the building was a 14-degree shot on August 31st by Xander Bogaerts at Target Field. Pujols is too competitive, too prideful, to allow that. Judge crushed this two-run blast off Francisco Liriano in the top of the sixth at Rogers Centre for his 18th homer of the season. Ours will be fun, though. Passan: The prodigious power of Soto is so free, so easy, one takes it for granted. It was really loud. On April 17th, a total of just 15 homers were hit across 14 MLB games. pic.twitter.com/UeoxyXHABp, Drian Bernal / ???? (The Sports Daily), 7 MLB teams slugged 200-plus homers. #wrigley #reds pic.twitter.com/2JFHpWtc5f. Its the first time someone has reached at least 35 in both categories since Duke Snider in 1954. Here are the longest homers Statcast has tracked since Opening Day of the 2015 season. Thats the second-longest average during the Statcast era. 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. What's the old saw about doing something twice on Sunday? Dave has decades of experience, and his own system of measuring distance. Once the year was done, the outfielder had compiled a .311/.425/.688 line with 62 homers, 131 RBI, 133 runs scored, 111 walks, and 177 hits. on Sept. 8, 2015. It's a fun field, spanning all the way from a 21-year-old rookie to a 42-year-old legend. This is a tale of two home runs, both hit June 30, by Patrick Wisdom, the first a dramatic grand slam [VIDEO]. He joins Henry Aaron (1973), J.D. 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. 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. Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. Here the article proper ends, but we add a postscript, just for yucks. That's why he's available in 60% of Yahoo leagues and might be dropped in more because of his recent placement on the IL with a dislocated pinky. Julio Rodriguezs first taste of big-league action included 28 homers and 25 stolen bases. The latest in the sports world, emailed daily. 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. On April 23rd, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ozzie Albies both hit leadoff homers on the first pitch they saw. But he won't survive a really tough matchup against Schwarber. No harm done, really; as the old baseball saying goes, a 500-footer counts for the same run as an inside-the-park job. Keeping it .This is @coreyseager_5's 100th career home run and his second of the game! (Alonso remains tied with Yoenis Cespedes and Ken Griffey Jr. with two titles in a row.) Using a known distance (the LFfoul line), we extrapolate the others we will do here, using simple math. He only has one 'no-doubter' and 16 'mostly gone'. Soto got to admire his longest home run and watch it fly. In fact, pitches that have gone that low have indeed registered far more hit-by-pitches (1,167) than hits (344) over the last five seasons. I think it was further. We want to see balls that never stop flying. Bryant isn't likely to see a surge in value if traded, so it might be best for fantasy managers to take advantage of the hype once he is moved and do the same. It's also worth noting that his lineup support keeps deteriorating. While the moonshot broke team records, it was only the third-longest in Coors Field behind Stanton and Snchez's long balls. I can go 0-for-30 or J.P. [Crawford] can go 0-for-30 or Julio can go 30-for-30.". Seattle teammate Ty France put it this way, talking about the team's slow start and recent surge: "That's baseball. Back on June 12th, Aaron Judge was on pace to slash .313/.388/.681 with 66 homers, 132 RBI, 137 runs scored, 80 walks, and 187 hits. 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. Stat cast is broken on the south side that was farther than 452 Salvy!! @JRODshow44's first big league homer went a LONG way! The homer didnt do much for Cleveland in the game, as Chicago secured a 7-4 win. (MLB Random Stats), Andrew Vaughns two different kinds of history. 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. Also note, by this measure even a 575-footer is heading down (NOTrising)as it leaves the park. With 24 homers in his final season, it was Albert Pujols 21st year with 15-plus homers. 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