The Shortest Home Run in 2024 for Every MLB Team
Talk about visiting the other end of the spectrum.
Our two-week walk down memory lane of 2024’s longest and shortest home runs ends today. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in the archives to look at whenever your heart desires:
I’ve divided the teams up by division. We’ll go AL East, Central, and West before going in the same order for the NL. There are a handful of players on this list who also slugged the longest homer of the year for their team. Oh, and there are three inside-the-park homers highlighted! Let’s get to it.
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American League East
Baltimore Orioles
Anthony Santander, 332 Feet
Tony Taters (which is one of my favorite baseball nicknames these days) set a new career-high mark in 2024 with 44 dingers. The switch-hitter picked a good time to do that, as he’s now a free agent and looking to cash in.
Boston Red Sox
Enmanuel Valdez: 318 Feet
Enmanuel Valdez posted a 103 OPS+ in 149 plate appearances as a rookie in 2023. That number dropped to 74 in 223 plate appearances this past season.
New York Yankees
Jose Trevino: 325 Feet
While a .642 OPS usually isn’t anything to write home about, it was a sizeable improvement from 2023 for Jose Trevino. His 2023 OPS settled in at .570.
Tampa Bay Rays
Curtis Mead: 327 Feet
This was the first and only home run of Curtis Mead’s season. Having it be among the shortest of the year is a good way to make it count a little extra, right? He also doubled his career homer output with this blast.
Toronto Blue Jays
Nathan Lukes, 341 Feet
This was not only Nathan Lukes’ first homer of the year for Toronto, but it was also his first career MLB home run. After struggling to a .598 OPS in 31 plate appearances as a rookie, he posted a .818 OPS in 91 trips to the plate this past year.
American League Central
Chicago White Sox
Luis Robert Jr.: 329 Feet
Luis Robert Jr. has the honor of hitting Chicago’s longest and shortest home run of the year. As I mentioned before, he’s not the only one to accomplish that feat in 2024.
Cleveland Guardians
Josh Naylor, 331 Feet
Josh Naylor enjoyed a breakout year in the run production department for the Guardians. His 31 homers and 108 RBI are both single-season career-high marks.
Tyler Freeman, 331 Feet
Tyler Freeman owns a .632 OPS in parts of three seasons with Cleveland. But after hitting four homers in 254 plate appearances from 2022-23, he hit seven in 383 trips to the plate in 2024.
Detroit Tigers
Riley Greene, 343 Feet
Riley Greene just about doubled his career run production in about half the time. He slugged 16 homers with 79 RBI from 2022-23 (834 plate appearances). Those numbers settled in at 24 and 74, respectively, in 2024 (584 plate appearances).
Kansas City Royals
Freddy Fermin, 338 Feet 7/28/24
All six of Fermin’s 2024 home runs came against right-handed pitchers. Despite only mustering nine doubles in 122 plate appearances against southpaws, his slugging percentage was still higher against lefties (.376 vs. .361).
Minnesota Twins
Carlos Santana, 342 Feet
Carlos Santana is aging like a fine wine. The dude was in his age-38 season with the Twins and essentially mirrored his 2023 production while also winning a Gold Glove Award at first base. Four was his favorite number of the year. He slugged exactly that many homers in four different months for Minnesota.
American League West
Athletics
Max Schuemann, 341 Feet
Schuemann struggled through August for the A’s, hitting .169/.286/.225 and collecting just two extra-base hits. This was his only homer during that time.
Houston Astros
Kyle Tucker, 336 Feet
Kyle Tucker only appeared in 78 games this year. If he was healthy for a full season, who knows what we could’ve seen him do. His .993 OPS would’ve been the highest single-season mark of his career and he still managed to post his fourth straight 20-homer campaign.
Los Angeles Angels
Taylor Ward, 346 Feet
Taylor Ward is the Angels’ 2024 home run king, so this honor is just another one to add to his mantle. The most homers he hit in a month was seven. He did that twice — March/April and September. That’s how you start and finish strong.
Seattle Mariners
Jorge Polanco, 341 Feet
This was Jorge Polanco’s first season with the Mariners, and he didn’t like calling T-Mobile Park home very much. Seven of his 16 homers were launched there, but he also slashed .193/.284/.322.
Texas Rangers
Adolis Garcia: 328 Feet
When I think of Adolis Garcia, I envision tanks being launched off his bat. But sometimes, he hits a wall scraper. Happens to the best of us. He enjoyed his fourth straight year of 25-plus homers and joined the 100-homer club in the process.
National League East
Atlanta Braves
Matt Olson, 337 Feet
This was Olson’s first homer of the year. After setting the Braves’ single-season home run record in 2023 with 54 dingers, he finished 2024 with 29 homers.
Miami Marlins
Nick Gordon, 340 Feet
Nick Gordon has hit seven homers during his four-year career. He’s hit more than one just once (four in 2022). This dinger was the lone dinger he slugged for the Marlins in 2024.
New York Mets
Mark Vientos, 346 Feet
Many Mets fans don’t want to think about where New York would’ve been without Mark Vientos’ emergence. This is a guy who didn’t make the Opening Day roster and wasn’t up in the big leagues for good until May 15. He finished with a .837 OPS, 27 homers, and 71 RBI in 454 plate appearances.
Philadelphia Phillies
Austin Hays, 351 Feet
This was Austin Hays’ first home run after getting acquired by the Phillies at the trade deadline. He’d only slug one more dinger for Philly, finishing the regular season with a .672 OPS in 22 games.
Nick Castellanos, 351 Feet
Nick Castellanos was the picture of consistency in the power department over his final four months of the season. He slugged exactly four homers in each month from June through September.
Washington Nationals
Eddie Rosario, 333 Feet
Eddie Rosario struggled with his production in 2024. After posting a .755 OPS in 142 games for the Braves in 2023, his OPS dropped to .531 in 91 games in 2024.
National League Central
Chicago Cubs
Pete Crow Armstrong, 330 Feet
This inside-the-park home run is punctuated by what I think is one of the best slides I’ve ever seen. Trea Turner-esque, don’t you think? Just super smooth all around.
Cincinnati Reds
Elly De La Cruz: 282 Feet
Speaking of speed, Elly De La Cruz is a human cheat code with his ability to fly around the bases and hit balls 450-plus feet with regularity. And he’s not even going to turn 23 until January. It’ll be fun to watch him grow as a player.
Milwaukee Brewers
Jackson Chourio: 264 Feet
We’ve got our third inside-the-park homer in a row! Jackson Chourio is another player who hit the longest and shortest homer for his club in 2024. He picked things up after the All-Star break. His OPS went from .678 in the first half to .914 in the second half.
Pittsburgh Pirates
Rowdy Tellez, 339 Feet
Despite having 70 more plate appearances, Rowdy Tellez’s 2024 season (13 homers, 56 RBI, .691 OPS), looked quite similar to his 2023 campaign in Milwaukee (13 homers, 47 RBI, .667 OPS).
St. Louis Cardinals
Brendan Donovan, 334 Feet
Brendan Donovan has maintained an OPS in the upper-.700s throughout his first three big-league seasons, but his homer production has improved each year. It’s gone from five in 2022 to 11 in 2023 and now 14 in 2024.
National League West
Arizona Diamondbacks
Geraldo Perdomo: 319 Feet
Geraldo Perdomo hit three homers in 2024. All three of them came in August despite racking up at least 50 plate appearances in four different months.
Colorado Rockies
Sam Hilliard, 344 Feet
Sam Hilliard is another dude who slugged the longest and shortest homers of the year for his squad. While his OPS at Coors Field (.868) was much better than his road OPS (.756), he split his homer production right down the middle, hitting five in each situation.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Cavan Biggio, 332 Feet
This was Cavan Biggio’s fifth and final home run of the 2024 season. It was a weird one for him, as the number of teams he played for (three) nearly outpaced his homer production.
San Diego Padres
Luis Campusano, 329 Feet
This was the first of eight homers for Campusano in 2024, which is now a new career-high mark. He accomplished that feat in 299 plate appearances after hitting seven in 174 trips to the plate in 2023.
San Francisco Giants
LaMonte Wade Jr.: 321 Feet
Wade Jr.’s .771 OPS at Oracle Park was better than it was on the road (.751). However, six of his eight homers came as a visiting player. What you see above was one of the two he hit in San Francisco this year.