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Regular season play will conclude May 21 ahead of the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Sunday’s contest concluded Tennessee’s second Southeastern Conference series of the 2022 season. Historically, different positions have come with different power expectations. This is evident when looking at the all-time home run leaders at each spot on the diamond. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data.
In his 22-year career, the Say Hey Kid smacked 660 homers, the most among center fielders. Ken Griffey Jr. came close to that mark but ultimately fell short, finishing with 630. In addition to holding the record for the longest consecutive games played streak at 2,632, Ripken is a member of the 3,000-hit club and had 431 home runs in his 21-year career. Although he moved to third base in 1997, the Iron Man played over three-quarters of his games at shortstop and is well ahead of the next-closest player for the positional home run lead.
Tennessee: 64
Tony Vitello discusses Tennessee baseball ahead of the Vols' second fall exhibition.
A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or has not played for a full season. A look at Tennessee's entire 2023 baseball schedule for SEC and nonconference games. Below are SEC team leaders for total home runs following the second week of conference play. Throughout the 2022 baseball season, Vols Wire will look at Southeastern Conference stats. These are the college football programs with the most College Football Playoff wins and appearances since the format began in 2014.
South Carolina: 18
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. Playing statistics and biographical data for this portion of our dataset are all copyright 2013 by Gary Ashwill.
Furniss and Cresse were part of the famous Geauxrilla Ball era at LSU. Both were members of the 1997 CWS champion Tigers team that slugged 188 home runs that season — still an NCAA record — including at least one Tiger bomb in every one of the 70 games they played. Furniss finished his career as one of college baseball’s all-time greats, ending as the SEC's all-time leader in home runs, RBI and hits, the latter finally broken in 2019 by Mississippi State’s Jake Mangum. Cresse finished his career two behind Furniss on the SEC career home run list. Two players on the list stand out as big "what ifs." BYU’s Cory Snyder and Virginia Tech’s George Canale both slugged 0.42 home runs per game, tied for second behind Inky’s 0.47. It makes you wonder just how many they could have hit had either come close to the 213 games Incaviglia played.
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As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Following Tennessee’s second Southeastern Conference series of the 2022 season, Vols Wire looks at UT’s home run leaders. Every Tennessee player to hit a home run this season are listed below.
That said, the leader in home runs while actually playing right field isn’t Hammerin' Hank or the Great Bambino, but rather Sammy Sosa with 538. Aaron had 520 homers as a right fielder, 68 as a left fielder, 64 as a center fielder, 61 as a first baseman, 22 as a DH, six as a second baseman and three as a pinch-hitter. Bonds isn’t just the home run leader among left fielders, he’s the leader among all players, period.
Neither Snyder nor Canale hit less than 21 home runs in their three years of college baseball, with Canale posting a career-high of 29 and Snyder slamming 27 as his best mark. Note that our records are missing thousands of players who played in the Negro Leagues for minor league teams, independent teams, barnstorming teams or even Negro major league teams. We will bring their records to light as soon as suitable records are available for those players.
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Pujols, the only positional home run leader who is currently active, has compiled 697 homers over 22 seasons in the Majors. A three-time MVP Award winner, Pujols became the ninth member of the 600 home run club in 2017 when he swatted a grand slam off Ervin Santana. However, Pujols actually ranks second when it comes to home runs hit as a first baseman , trailing Mark McGwire . Pujols has crushed 115 homers as a DH, 64 as a left fielder, 24 as a third baseman, seven as a pinch-hitter and six as a right fielder. Piazza had nine career seasons with at least 30 home runs, more than double the total of any other catcher, and his personal best was 40, which he accomplished twice (1997, '99). Overall, the Hall of Fame backstop crushed 427 career homers in 16 seasons, with 396 of his long balls coming while he was playing the catcher position.
The superstar slugger hit 40-plus homers eight times, including a single-season record 73 in 2001, en route to 762 for his career. The next closest left fielder is Manny Ramirez with 555 homers, followed by Ted Williams with 521. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). Players in bold face are active as of the 2022 Major League Baseball season , with the number in parenthesis designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2022 season. The last change in the cutoff for the top 300 occurred on September 11, 2022, when Eugenio Suarez hit his 223rd career home run, displacing Jason Bay and Don Mattingly. Mays is one of just nine players to belt 50-plus homers in a season more than once, and in 1969 he became the second player in Major League history to hit 600 home runs, joining Ruth in accomplishing the feat.
Piazza also hit 18 homers as a designated hitter, eight as a first baseman and five as a pinch-hitter. Matt LaPorta is the most recent player to crack the top 10, and that was more than a decade ago. LaPorta was a four-year player who had 20-plus home runs in two of his seasons. LaPorta hit a home run in five straight games between March 24 and April 1, 2007, and three of them were two-home run games. For the purposes of this story, a player must have played at least two-thirds of his games at a position in order to qualify as its leader.
Any player who played at least two-thirds of his career in the outfield qualified in the outfield spot at which he played the most. For instance, the great Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs in his career, yet he isn't the leading right fielder. Meanwhile, several players are first at their position with fewer than 450 homers. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties.
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