Another week, another Statcast controversy. On September 6th, Kris Bryant obliterated a home run off of Rubby de la Rosa (which you’ll see in a bit today). Despite all of the underlying data being identical, Statcast measured the homer at 495 feet. ESPN’s Home Run Tracker, which we use here at TOC, measured the homer at “just” 467 feet. Back in April, Statcast said this Nelson Cruz homer was 483 feet, which is completely and utterly ridiculous.
Anyway. Here’s THE LIST this week, using the ESPN HR Tracker numbers as usual.
1. Jung Ho Kang vs Collin Balester, 476 feet (September 8th)
Left center, second deck at Great American Ballpark. Take a bow, Jung ho Kang.
2. Kris Bryant vs Rubby de la Rosa, 467 feet (September 6th)
While it may not have actually been 495 feet, this homer by Bryant was clearly destroyed.
3. JP Arencibia vs Randy Wolf, 462 feet (September 7th)
Has anyone ever gotten up to that concourse at Comerica? Arencibia came pretty damn close here.
4t. Jose Abreu vs Jeremy Guthrie, 453 feet (September 4th)
This Jose Abreu dinger didn’t go for a bath…but it’s still impressive!
4t. Bryce Harper vs Julio Teheran, 453 feet (September 4th)
And Statcast has an estimate seven feet *shorter* than HR Tracker for this homer…I give up.
Longest homers of the year
1t. Giancarlo Stanton vs Eddie Butler, 484 feet (June 5th)
1t. Giancarlo Stanton vs Carlos Martinez, 484 feet (June 23rd)
3. Paul Goldschmidt vs John Lackey, 482 feet (August 26th)
4. Joc Pederson vs David Hale, 480 feet (June 2nd)
5. Michael Taylor vs Yohan Flande, 479 feet (August 20th)
THE LIST
Giancarlo Stanton, 8
Nelson Cruz, 5
Joc Pederson, 5
Kris Bryant, 3
Miguel Cabrera, 3
Josh Donaldson, 3
Lucas Duda, 3
Paul Goldschmidt, 3
Edwin Encarnacion, 3
Jose Abreu, 2
Pedro Alvarez, 2
Ian Desmond, 2
Carlos Gonzalez, 2
Bryce Harper, 2
Eric Hosmer, 2
Jung ho Kang, 2
Evan Longoria, 2
Andrew McCutchen, 2
Kendrys Morales, 2
Mitch Moreland, 2
Mike Napoli, 2
Salvador Perez, 2
Alex Rodriguez, 2
Michael Taylor, 2
Mike Trout, 2
Mike Zunino, 2
JP Arencibia, 1
Tim Beckham, 1
Peter Bourjos, 1
Ryan Braun, 1
Chris Carter, 1
Welington Castillo, 1
Starlin Castro, 1
CJ Cron, 1
Travis d’Arnaud, 1
Chris Davis, 1
Khris Davis, 1
Prince Fielder, 1
Maikel Franco, 1
David Freese, 1
Joey Gallo, 1
Evan Gattis, 1
Jonny Gomes, 1
Adrian Gonzalez, 1
Yasmani Grandal, 1
Franklin Gutierrez, 1
Jedd Gyorko, 1
Josh Hamilton, 1
Ryan Howard, 1
Matt Joyce, 1
Adam LaRoche, 1
Brett Lawrie, 1
DJ LeMahieu, 1
Starling Marte, 1
JD Martinez, 1
Justin Maxwell, 1
Logan Morrison, 1
David Ortiz, 1
Kyle Parker, 1
David Peralta, 1
Aramis Ramirez, 1
Wilson Ramos, 1
Wilin Rosario, 1
Jonathan Schoop, 1
Justin Smoak, 1
Steven Souza Jr, 1
Mark Trumbo, 1
Preston Tucker, 1
Troy Tulowitzki, 1
Danny Valencia, 1
Delmon Young, 1
