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Off-field problems derailed his path to superstardom, but his Montreal moonshot serves as a reminder of his off-the-charts power. It comes as no surprise that of the 10 farthest home runs hit, five happened at Coors Field. It’s the most hitter-friendly MLB park thanks to the thin air helping make baseballs fly out of the stadium. Interestingly, Braves’ outfielders account for four of the longest MLB home runs in 2021.
If you’re thinking you’ve seen this man on one of our lists before, it’s because you have. McMahon slugged one of the 10 longest homers of 2021, and this 495-foot moonshot all but guarantees he’ll be among that group once again for 2022. This does continue to solidify that Denver is tremendous place to hit baseballs. This is interesting because before 2022, I don’t remember seeing left-handed hitters clobber tanks to that part of Coors.
League leader in home runs, both leagues
It’s extremely tricky to determine the distance of a home run accurately since so many factors go into a good measurement, but Mo Vaughn’s hit was clearly a milestone! Vaughn was traded to the New York Mets at the end of 2001, and was actually mocked at the beginning of the 2002 season for being out of shape. Despite his slow start and 268-pound stature, Vaughn got some great runs in before his knee problems set in during the 2003 season. However, as the game has grown and evolved, so have the players, the styles and the love of the game.
Similarly, Comiskey's left-field roof was also visited by many batted balls, but only one is confirmed to have cleared it on the fly. That homeric deed was performed by the powerful Jimmie Foxx on June 16, 1936. As Ruth's talents waned in the early 1930s, Foxx began his ascendancy. In 1932, the muscular "Double X" almost equaled Ruth's season record of 60 home runs.
Giancarlo Stanton, Miami Marlins outfielder – 504 feet, Coors Field
Willie Stargell scorched plenty of moonshots over his career. According to Allied News’ Jim Sankey, via MLB.com’s Matt Monagan, the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder submitted seven of 18 balls to clear Forbes Field’s 86-foot high roof in right field. Few sluggers were stronger in their prime, making him one of baseball's most feared batters despite his strikeout woes. The park estimated his powerful swing at 505 feet, making it one of the longest homers to invite a Big Apple rising. As MLB.com's Ben Weinribnoted, the blast marked the longest homer since MLB installed Statcast in all stadiums in 2015. The new system pinpointed a 115.8-mph exit velocity with a launch angle of 18.3 degrees.
While his career was on the decline with the Mets in 2002, Mo still provided the faithful with a blast from the past at Shea in their June 26th matchup with Atlanta. His moonshot was an estimated 505 feet, one of his 26 on the season upon his return from missing the previous year due to injury. It would be the last big blast we would see from Mo, but boy was she a rocket. Ruth, Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Willie Stargell and Adam Dunn have all hit blasts well past 500 feet in their careers. ESPN had a Home Run Tracker that was able to estimate the distance of certain dingers, but there is still no conclusive list of the longest homers throughout MLB history.
Ryan McMahon on August 9, 2022: 495 feet
"The first one I hit barely went over the fence, so everybody on the other team was yelling cheapie and all that," Meyer said.
ESPN's Home Run Tracker tells a different story, calculating the final distance of Piazza's slam at 515 feet. Here are the deepest home runs hit from the 2021 MLB season, with videos from MLB.com. Below, we’ll look at some of the longest home runs hit in MLB history, both documented and rumored. There is no specific data on the farthest home run in the the Home Run Derby pre-StatCast era.
Willie Stargell
Amazingly, many of those records remain unequaled, which is to say that Ruth is a true athletic anachronism. In virtually every other field of endeavor in which physical performance can be measured, there are no Ruthian equivalents. In 1921 alone, which was Ruth's best tape measure season, he hit at least one 500 foot home run in all eight American League cities. There should be no doubt about the authentication of these conclusions.
Cedeno, a 23-year-old with the Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate, isn’t one of the club’s top 40 prospects . However, the 6-foot-2 slugger made history with the longest home run ever officially recorded through StatCast. For comparison, the longest MLB home run in traveled 499 feet and the official record for the farthest home run ever hit in MLB history went 505 feet . If you go off non-StatCast data, though, it’s not even the longest home run in minor league history .
I do love seeing him take a peek out to left field before rounding third base, too. This was part of Hill’s fourth and final season of 20-plus homers, and the 27 he hit were actually a career-high mark. Looming over baseball history as an almost mythical figure, Babe Ruth to this day remains one of the sport’s greatest power hitters. Tracking home runs was a much more difficult task in Ruth’s playing days, but his longest was purported to be 575 feet. Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY SportsWillie Stargell is among the Hall of Famers who are also recognized as one of the best power hitters in MLB history.
The Pittsburgh Pirates legend finished with 475 home runs, but it was a 535-foot blast at Olympic Stadium that lands on our list. On May 20, 1978, Stargell hit the farthest home run ever recorded in Canada with his eye-popping blast in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Keep in mind, he was 38 years old when he hit it and that arguably makes it even more impressive than others above him.
His first three years with the Texas Rangers included 20 home runs each, and then he followed that up with 19 in 2019. Between the 2020 and 2021 campaigns, Mazara hit just four dingers. The following home runs are in no particular order since the measurements are estimated and a little bit all over the place, and it’s by no means an exhaustive list.
If he had the power to clear the roof by over 100 feet, he surely would have cleared it marginally on many occasions. As of 1995, the Mantle of baseball's longest hitter can probably best be worn by Cecil Fielder. His regular bombardment of the left-field roof at Tiger Stadium has not been approximated in the 60-year history of that structure. If Bo Jackson had not been forced into early retirement, he might have challenged Fielder for modern supremacy.
It's also not the last time the three-true-outcomes prototype appears on this list. This list includes icons, Hall and Famers and rakers who wielded unquestionably elite power. Yet near the top sits a journeyman who belted 186 home runs over a career devoid of regular playing time. According to Statcast, someone soon to follow topped Mike Piazza's 496-foot homer from Sept. 26, 1997, as the longest home run in Coors Field history. He made the majors the next season but lasted just 156 games with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Memorial Field opened in 1921 as a tribute to Belmar residents who fought in World War I (there’s a war memorial just beyond the outfield fence). In the 1920s and 1930s, the field was home to the semipro Belmar Braves. In 1935 the New York Cubans, a Negro National League team led by player-coach Dihigo, used the field for its Saturday home games. At a time when Blacks were barred from Major League Baseball, barnstorming tours featuring Negro League stars made stops there as well. Youth baseball players practice Tuesday afternoon, March 30, 2021, at Memorial Field in Belmar.
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