The 10 Most Extreme Home Runs of the 2013 Season
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Here are the longest homers of the 2013 season. Not bad for a player whose hip concerns this past offseason delayed his free agent deal. Considering that Cobb has a 2.73 ERA on the season, Rasmus’ long ball is even more impressive. Let’s take a look at the 10 longest home run blasts of the 2013 season. Will Schwarber ever square a ball up this well again?
No player knows this more than Mike Napoli, whose two home runs on May 1 against the Toronto Blue Jays rank among the longest blasts of the 2013 season. The latter of these home runs came off of Esmil Rogers for a three-run shot that added to an already impressive Red Sox lead. The home run was also the longest walk-off home run in the major leagues during the past eight seasons.
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Frazier hasn’t homered since, but it’s clear what the 27-year-old is capable of following his monster blast during the opening month of the season. Although he has hit only four home runs this season, his last two have come off of Scherzer and James Shields, two of the better pitchers he’s faced this season. Schwarber spread his homer production across all postseason rounds in 2015, too. He hit one in the NL Wild Card Game, two in the NLDS, and then two in the NLCS. His OPS progressively decreased along the way (2.333, 1.683, .821), but the damage was done. The Braves didn’t advance past the NLDS in 2019, but it had nothing to do with a then-21-year old Ronald Acuña Jr. and his performance.
Crisp was able to take advantage of short fences down the lines, not hitting a single homer to left center, center or right center field. With a 1-1 count, Napoli took Mark Buehrle deep to dead center for his fifth home run of the season. Following his second blast of the game in the seventh inning, Napoli became the only player in the past eight years to hit two home runs that traveled at least 460 feet in the same game.
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However, his name likely comes to mind pretty quickly for Alex Cobb following the fifth inning blast that Rasmus hit off of him to the third deck at the Rogers Centre. The Rays managed to maintain their lead and win the game, but Rasmus hit his second home run of more than 460 feet this season. His overall performance in the Championship Series is quite interesting, too. While Contreras’ .688 OPS during this postseason round is his second-worst mark, two of his three career postseason home runs have come during that time. He was limited to just 94 plate appearances in the regular season, which led to four homers and 11 RBI. Stanton out-performed both those numbers in 31 postseason plate appearances while posting a 255 wRC+.
It was quite a weird taste for him, too. The backstop obviously slugged one of the longest postseason home runs of the Statcast era, and he didn’t stop there. Chad Pinder is another guy I wouldn’t expect to be on here, but I love it.
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves: 455 feet
Chris Davis led MLB with an Orioles-record 53 home runs this season. He showed power to all fields, with 16 of his 53 home runs going to left or left center field, 14 to center field and 23 to right field. Davis’ average homer to center field this season traveled over 422 feet. Against one of the best closers in baseball, Wright took Kimbrel deep in the ninth inning to tie the game for the New York Mets and setup an extra inning victory. The at-bat featured one of the NL East’s best hitters against one of the league’s most dominant closers, and resulted in a blast towards right-center field. Those power numbers are nice, but it doesn’t make up for the lack of production he’s had otherwise.
I’ll have to say no, but then again, the left-handed slugger is fully capable of doing so. Is it shocking that the Braves won the World Series during Freeman’s best postseason performance? No, not at all. The first baseman didn’t post an OPS lower than .996 in any of the three rounds he and Atlanta participated in. "The following day, there were so many reporters there," Meyer recalled.
Instead, the ball ricocheted off his glove for a home run. You know a home run traveled far when even the fans sitting in the outfield have to turn around to see where it lands. The home run eventually won the game for the Cincinnati Reds, and was the seventh longest home run in the history of Great American Ball Park. The home run saw Wright take a fastball yard while Kimbrel blew just his 13th career save opportunity. Not much has gone right for the Houston Astros this season, but J.D. Martinez’s 464-foot home run off Max Scherzer helped the Astros avoid a sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.
The home run wasn’t just impressive to watch, but it was also the longest of Trout’s already historic career.
Obviously, the power needs to be there, but if the ball is not hit right off the sweet spot of the bat, it might simply be a dribbler down the third base line. The great Ted Williams said that the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball. Atlanta's Evan Gattis clobbered the longest home run of the regular season with a 486-foot bomb off Phillies ace Cole Hamels early in the second week of September.
But who has hit the longest home run this season? Take a look at the 15 longest home runs of the 2013 MLB season so far. There's home run king Barry Bonds, there's Adam Dunn depositing baseballs into other states. There's the unbelievable power of Wily Mo Peña or Glenallen Hill.
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