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- Pittsburgh Pirates: Willie Stargell, 475 Home Runs
- Texas Rangers: Juan Gonzalez, 372 Home Runs
- Career Leaders & Records for Home Runs
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- New York Yankees: Babe Ruth, 659 Home Runs
- Albert Pujols has 700 career home runs -- let's look at the all-time numbers
- Most career home runs in high school baseball history
The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714 and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez , Willie Mays , Ken Griffey Jr. , Jim Thome , and Sammy Sosa are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit of a fielding error. This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory , or by an inside-the-park home run. This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most home runs.
Gonzalez set the franchise mark with 224 home runs for the relatively young Diamondbacks, who joined the MLB as an expansion team in 1998. The first home run champion in the National League was George Hall. In the league's inaugural 1876 season, Hall hit five home runs for the short-lived National League Philadelphia Athletics. In 1901, the American League was established and Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie led it with 14 home runs for the American League Philadelphia Athletics. Over the course of his 22-season career, Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs twelve times. Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League.
Pittsburgh Pirates: Willie Stargell, 475 Home Runs
He led the league in doubles on eight different occasions, and his 725 career doubles rank third all-time behind Pete Rose and Tris Speaker . Speaking of fWAR, 30-year-old Mike Trout is on the verge of passing Brett in that category, as he posted 84.6 for his career. His production is just incredible — in years he’s played at least 130 games, he’s never finished with an fWAR lower than 8.3. Hammerin’ Hank won the single-season home run title four times and did the same for the single-season RBI title. A testament to his consistency was that he never hit more than 47 home runs or drove in more than 132 runs in a year.
While the MLB all-time and single-season home run leaderboards are special places to be, this list makes it clear that there are many other home run kings in baseball history. Who will be the next player to join this list and knock someone off? But none of them have more homers in a San Diego uniform than Nate Colbert. ” but his 163 dingers currently lead the clubhouse, ahead of Gonzalez . There are just eight Padres players in team history with 100-plus homers for the organization prior to 2022, with the lone active player being Wil Myers. His 116 RBI were the first of nine campaigns in which he drove in at least 100 runs, while his 36 homers led baseball that year.
Texas Rangers: Juan Gonzalez, 372 Home Runs
All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. 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. Everything one can see about Stan Musial screams that he was a prolific ballplayer. During his 22-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals , he was a 24-time All-Star, a seven-time batting champion, a three-time MVP, and a three-time World Series champion. Similar to other first-ballot Hall of Famers , Griffey put together a legendary career just during his time in Seattle. All 10 of his Gold Glove awards and all of his seven Silver Slugger awards came with the Mariners, as well as his lone MVP award and 10 of his 13 All-Star Game appearances.

Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Warren Spahn are tied for second with 35 career home runs apiece. Red Ruffing, Earl Wilson, and Don Drysdale are the only other pitchers to hit at least 25 home runs. Jack Stivetts hit a total of 35 home runs in his playing career, 21 as a pitcher.
Career Leaders & Records for Home Runs
Gonzalez also holds Arizona's single-season home run record of 51, which he hit in 2001. That was a special year not only for Gonzalez individually, but for the D-backs, as they won their first World Series title in a seven-game thriller over the Yankees. Gonzalez finished third in NL MVP Award voting that season and to cap off his year, he delivered a walk-offf single off Mariano Rivera in Game 7 of the World Series. Ironically, it was a broken-bat bloop to shallow center field over New York's drawn-in infield. The home run was later reinstated by American League president Larry MacPhail.
A 24-time All-Star, three-time MVP and seven-time batting champion, Musial never hit 40 homers or led the league in that category, but he had 20-plus homers in 10 seasons. While Ty Cobb holds the majority of Tigers records, the man known as “Mr. A Hall of Famer, Kaline spent his entire 22-year career in Detroit and fell one homer shy of the 400 mark while also collecting more than 3,000 hits. The 18-time All-Star never reached the 30-homer plateau in a season, but he finished with a total between seven times.
But it was his ability to be a force both at the plate and behind it on a regular basis that made him special. Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times, three with the Texas Rangers and twice with the New York Yankees. Here’s how the two young players performed and who else stood out. Gallo’s home run prowess in the MLB has been a continuation of the storyline that began in Las Vegas during his high school days. The longball list heads back to Reno, with Galena’s big-hitting catcher Steven Lerud cracking 60 home runs from 2000 to 2003. The Lancer’s powerful right-handed slugger hit 58 home runs during his career ( ).
The first portion of Helton’s career ranged from his age-23 to age-31 seasons. And to think, during what was likely the most powerful stretch of his Hall of Fame career, he was selected to just one All-Star Game. That seems preposterous, and even more so because that selection didn’t come until 2004.
That record stood for 34 years before another Yankee, Roger Maris, broke it in 1961. Of the three hitters in MLB history with more than 700 home runs, two -- Aaron and Ruth -- primarily played right field. Ruth was the all-time home run king from 1920 until '74, when Aaron passed him with his 715th career homer.
The first-ballot Hall of Famer now ranks second all time in homers, third in hits and first in RBIs . Outside of Ken Griffey Jr., there are only two other Mariners hitters with more than 300 career homers for the franchise . The closest active player is Mitch Haniger with 107 following the 2022 season. Stan 'The Man' Musial is another Hall of Famer legend who spent his entire career with the same ballclub. Musial played for the St. Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons while missing one year near the start of his career due to WWII military service. Musial's franchise record has stood for nearly 60 years – and it should remain in place a while longer.