On Saturday in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays, Aaron Decide despatched a 94 MPH working sinker from Jays pitcher Jose Berrios over the left-center wall to provide the New York Yankees a 2-1 lead within the backside of the primary inning. That dwelling run was the 298th homer of his profession.
With two extra dwelling runs, the Yankees slugger can have performed within the fewest video games to achieve 300 profession homers in MLB historical past. And the file will not even be a detailed one. With a present HR/G rate of 0.37 in 2024, Decide will possible set the file in per week.
The present file holder, Ralph Kiner, performed in 1,087 video games to achieve 300 profession dwelling runs. By way of August 3, Decide has performed in simply 945 video games to achieve 298 dwelling runs in his profession. That is a distinction of about 3/4 of a full season value of video games.
This isn’t a shot at Kiner by any means. The Corridor Of Famer was an offensive juggernaut in his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates. If not for a debilitating again damage, Kiner would possible have been a shoo-in to hitch the five hundred HR membership.
However this simply places how nice Decide has been into perspective. And if not for the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, Decide could be nicely over the 300 profession homer mark. The 32-year-old dinger machine is presently the closely favored front-runner to win his second MVP in three years and boasts a .321/.452/.702 triple-slash, 41 homers and 103 RBI in 110 video games performed on the season.
Decide’s first MVP got here in his historic 2022 season, when he broke the American League single-season dwelling run file with 62 lengthy balls. With Decide about to smash one other homer file in 2024, it looks like that second MVP is all however sure now.