Sunday, June 1, 2025

2024 Home Run leaders by Total and AB/HR. See how their ranks changed.

To get a pool of 2024 Home Run (HR) leaders: the top 30, which is the number of MLB teams. I've used this technique previously.


For single seasons, in 2024, in the regular season, requiring Home Runs >= 27, sorted by descending Home Runs.

32 records were found, including ties at the bottom.

This was put into a spreadsheet and the Rank order was changed to give players who were tied in HR the same rank number.

Then AB/HR: lower is better. Then the difference in Rank.

Sorted ascending by AB/HR:

RKRK
PlayerAB/HRHRABHR#AB/HRDifTeam
Aaron Judge9.63793158559110NYY
Shohei Ohtani11.77777854636220LAD
Tyler O'Neill13.2580653141118315BOS
Anthony Santander13.5227274459534-1BAL
Brent Rooker14.00000039546550OAK
Ketel Marte14.000000365041064ARI
Juan Soto14.0487804157647-3NYY
Kyle Schwarber15.07894738573880PHI
Mark Vientos15.2962962741329920NYM
Giancarlo Stanton15.44444427417291019NYY
Marcell Ozuna15.53846239606511-6ATL
Yordan Alvarez15.771429355521112-1HOU
Corey Seager15.8333333047520137TEX
José Ramírez15.89743639620514-9CLE
Cal Raleigh16.058824345461215-3SEA
Shea Langeliers16.6206902948224168OAK
Gunnar Henderson17.02702737630917-8BAL
Teoscar Hernández17.848485335891418-4LAD
Pete Alonso17.882353346081219-7NYM
Josh Naylor18.161290315631820-2CLE
Bryce Harper18.333333305502021-1PHI
Jake Burger18.4482762953524222MIA
Francisco Lindor18.727273336181423-9NYM
Rafael Devers18.7500002852528244BOS
Eugenio Suárez19.033333305712025-5ARI
Willy Adames19.062500326101726-9MIL
Bobby Witt Jr.19.875000326361627-11KCR
Manny Machado20.448276295932428-4SDP
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.20.533333306162029-9TOR
Matt Olson20.689655296002430-6ATL
Matt Chapman21.296296275752931-2SFG
Salvador Perez21.851852275902932-3KCR

Not surprisingly, Judge and Ohtani ranked 1 and 2.

Biggest plus: 20 for Met Mark Vientos who hit 27 HR but in only 413 AB. Yankee Giancarlo Stanton had almost identical numbers.

Biggest minus: -11 for Bobby Witt, Jr. who took 636 AB to hit 32 HR. Tied with Ohtani in this group for most AB.

Tyler O'Neill of the Red Sox moved way up to #3 with 31 HR in only 411 AB, fewest in this group. He's between 54 and 44 HR hitters. 

Don't just stare at Home Run totals.

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