Top "dozen" 1961 and 2022 AL Home Run hitters ratios and averages.

In 2022 Aaron Judge broke the American League (AL) season Home Run record of Roger Maris, which was set in 1961, 61 years before. This post contains data on the AL batters with the most Home Runs in those seasons. Ratios and averages are presented for context.

The averages below each column are simply taken from the data in the column. The average number of Home Runs hit by these groups:

1961: 36

2022: 34

The 1961 group is top heavy, with six batters hitting at least 40 HR. 2022 had only two.

Maximum and Minimum are shown for each column. Bold means the highest in that group, NOT necessarily for the entire AL.

BB/SO above one means more BB than SO. None in 2022. Five in 1961. In 2022 Judge was the only batter with at least 100 BB. Maris had only 67 SO.

	1961
Rk	Player	HR	AB	BB	SO	Age	AB/HR	SO/AB	BB/SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Team
1	Roger Maris	61	590	94	67	26	9.67	11.36%	1.40	.269	.372	.620	.993	167	NYY
2	Mickey Mantle	54	514	126	112	29	9.52	21.79%	1.13	.317	.448	.687	1.135	206	NYY
3	Jim Gentile	46	486	96	106	27	10.57	21.81%	.91	.302	.423	.646	1.069	187	BAL
4	Harmon Killebrew	46	541	107	109	25	11.76	20.15%	.98	.288	.405	.606	1.012	162	MIN
5	Rocky Colavito	45	583	113	75	27	12.96	12.86%	1.51	.290	.402	.580	.982	157	DET
6	Norm Cash	41	535	124	85	27	13.05	15.89%	1.46	.361	.487	.662	1.148	201	DET
7	Bob Allison	29	556	103	100	26	19.17	17.99%	1.03	.245	.363	.450	.813	112	MIN
8	Bill Skowron	28	561	35	108	30	20.04	19.25%	.32	.267	.318	.472	.790	113	NYY
8	Al Smith	28	532	56	67	33	19.00	12.59%	.84	.278	.348	.506	.854	128	CHW
8	Leon Wagner	28	453	48	65	27	16.18	14.35%	.74	.280	.348	.517	.865	120	LAA
11	Willie Kirkland	27	525	48	77	27	19.44	14.67%	.62	.259	.318	.474	.793	112	CLE
11	Roy Sievers	27	492	61	62	34	18.22	12.60%	.98	.295	.377	.537	.913	144	CHW
13	Ken Hunt	25	479	49	120	26	19.16	25.05%	.41	.255	.325	.484	.810	105	LAA
14	Lee Thomas	24	452	47	74	25	18.83	16.37%	.64	.285	.353	.491	.844	115	LA,NY
Rk	Player	HR	AB	BB	SO	Age	AB/HR	SO/AB	BB/SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Team
	max	61	590	126	120	34	20.04	25.05%	1.51	.361	.487	.687	1.148	206
	min	24	452	35	62	25	9.52	11.36%	.32	.245	.318	.450	.790	105
	average	36	521	79	88	28	15.54	16.91%	.93	.29	.38	.55	.93	145
	2022
Rk	Player	HR	AB	BB	SO	Age	AB/HR	SO/AB	BB/SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Team
1	Aaron Judge	62	570	111	175	30	9.19	30.70%	.63	.311	.425	.686	1.111	211	NYY
2	Mike Trout	40	438	54	139	30	10.95	31.74%	.39	.283	.369	.630	.999	178	LAA
3	Yordan Alvarez	37	470	78	106	25	12.70	22.55%	.74	.306	.406	.613	1.019	187	HOU
4	Shohei Ohtani	34	586	72	161	27	17.24	27.47%	.45	.273	.356	.519	.875	145	LAA
5	Anthony Santander	33	574	55	122	27	17.39	21.25%	.45	.240	.318	.455	.773	117	BAL
5	Corey Seager	33	593	58	103	28	17.97	17.37%	.56	.245	.317	.455	.772	119	TEX
7	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	32	638	58	116	23	19.94	18.18%	.50	.274	.339	.480	.818	132	TOR
7	Anthony Rizzo	32	465	58	101	32	14.53	21.72%	.57	.224	.338	.480	.817	131	NYY
9	Giancarlo Stanton	31	398	50	137	32	12.84	34.42%	.36	.211	.297	.462	.759	113	NYY
9	Eugenio Suárez	31	543	73	196	30	17.52	36.10%	.37	.236	.332	.459	.791	129	SEA
11	Kyle Tucker	30	544	59	95	25	18.13	17.46%	.62	.257	.330	.478	.808	128	HOU
12	José Ramírez	29	601	69	82	29	20.72	13.64%	.84	.280	.355	.514	.869	148	CLE
13	Jose Altuve	28	527	66	87	32	18.82	16.51%	.76	.300	.387	.533	.921	160	HOU
13	Byron Buxton	28	340	34	116	28	12.14	34.12%	.29	.224	.306	.526	.833	135	MIN
13	Julio Rodríguez	28	511	40	145	21	18.25	28.38%	.28	.284	.345	.509	.853	147	SEA
Rk	Player	HR	AB	BB	SO	Age	AB/HR	SO/AB	BB/SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Team
	max	62	638	111	196	32	20.72	36.10%	.84	.311	.425	.686	1.111	211
	min	28	340	34	82	21	9.19	13.64%	.28	.211	.297	.455	.759	113
	average	34	520	62	125	28	15.89	24.77%	.52	.263	.348	.520	.868	145

BB to SO ratio, HR >= 493. Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Somewhat surprising is that Ted Williams has the best BB/SO ratio. Barry Bonds might have seemed likely because of all the BB he drew late in his career. But Williams has the astonishing 2.85 ratio: 2,021 BB and only 709 SO.

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