List of top 500 Major League Baseball home run hitters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of the top 500 Major League Baseball home run hitters. 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 (a conventional home run), or by an inside the park home run.
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron, who is currently second with 755, on August 7, 2007. Third is Babe Ruth with 714. Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey, Jr. (630) and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more.
The last change in the cutoff for the top 500 was on September 13, 2009, when Adam LaRoche hit his 134th homer and displaced two players from the list.
Contents |
[edit] List
Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 134 or more home runs, the current cutoff for the top 500 (includes ties for the top 500, whenever applicable). Players in bold face are active as of the 2009 Major League Baseball season (including free agents), with the number in parentheses designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2009 season.
The stats are updated as of the end of the 2009 regular season.
[edit] Close to the top 500
As of the end of the 2009 regular season, three active players are within five home runs of entering the top 500, now with a cutoff of 134 career homers:
- Nick Swisher (133)
- Edgar Rentería (132)
- Grady Sizemore (129)
[edit]
- List of lifetime home run leaders through history
- List of Major League Baseball home run champions
- 500 home run club
- List of Major League Baseball players with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 3,000 hits and 300 home runs
- Batting average
- MLB players with 2,000 hits
- List of Major League Baseball players with 4,000 Total bases
- MLB players with 400 doubles
- MLB players with 100 triples
- MLB players with 1,000 runs
- MLB players with 1,000 RBI
- MLB players with 300 stolen bases
- List of Top 100 Major League Baseball players in base on balls (walks)
- Top 15, and List of active MLB players in the Top 50 in Strikeouts
- MLB players with a .325 batting average
- MLB players with a .400 on-base percentage
- MLB players with a .500 slugging percentage
- MLB players with a .900 on-base plus slugging
