Mickey Mantle actually holds the record for the longest home run ever hit. 575ft it was listed as 640ft in the Guinness world record but later changed to 575ft
Well idk if thats even humanly possible lol. Unless theres like a 50 mph wind blowing out. Cause theres no way Mickey Mantle was stronger than Stanton.
It's not all about strength, it's about technique to. Using your hips more, getting the barrel on the ball all the time, using the power from your legs, timing the ball perfectly and not getting too on top of the ball or underneath the ball. Look at Jose Bautista for the blue jays. that guys hit some mammoth shots and he doesn't even weigh 200lbs. 25 to 40 hrs every year consistantly
1) Hardly any of the calls were nearly as good as they should have been. (The Ortiz call is so bland!) The only great one was "Waiter, there's a fly ball in my soup!" (Springer's - 1:20) 2) Stanton is the MAN!
And some of them are outright terrible. Who the HELL is that joker at 3:45 calling Avisail Garcia's shot? I'd have to mute every damn game if that was my team's play-by-play guy.
some of the audio recordings are from the opposing team. lol that explains it. like the ortiz one i believe the guy from the other team called the shot.
Michael Bronsky Agreed that that's really the Boston booth. I was gonna say that at this point, a Papi HR is so common at this point the Fenway natives don't even notice at this point, they're so used to it occurring they've forgotten it's value.
Stanton's power is unreal. Look at the one at 3:58... it's not even a big swing. He just gets SO MUCH going through his hips and core. Excited to watch him for years to come.
Stanton has hit so many no-doubt bombs in his career so far. Just thinking off the top of my head, he has hit some blasts. There are a lot more to come as well.
Trout is better hitter than Stanton, Stanton is pure raw strength and has a powerful swing, but besides that, he's not better than Trout. Hitting the farthest home runs doesn't make you the best hitter.
This video should be called "Some of the longest home runs of 2014" because you missed a ton of people who hit further for instance Todd Fraizer hit it 485'
justin mercado Ever heard of the internet? lol Baseball fans keep up with most baseball news including big trades, big signings, etc. Here's some details on Stanton's deal... espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11897600/giancarlo-stanton-325m-miami-marlins-heavily-backloaded
Springer hit one off the glass in left center at Minute Maid that could have easily surpassed 500 ft if the roof was open if I remember it correctly. Too bad the roof was closed. Made the actual distance traveled much shorter, maybe around 430-440.
Interesting to note, 14 of those homers were hit by players whose team was behind or the score was tied. Not many big homers hit by guys whose team was up.
stanton has natural power. He's not huge like a Ryan Howard or even Mike Trout was last year. I enjoy watching Stanton hit HRs. And Mike Trout from my hometown Millville NJ is the future of baseball
im not shocked to see my buddy Alex Gordon with the very 1st one cuz well he smashed that baseball and im glad I got that ball after that game Alex Gordon and Greg Holland autographed it thank u Gordon and Holland
royals fan here, that first clip is a mis measure, by quite a bit actually, that center field wall is 410, he hit it 10-20 feet beyond that to left center, it was probably more like 440, MAYBE 450, but not 460.
what I've yet to understand is that with the technology we have today, why don't we ever do more research on homers back in the day that are so called long shots 500 plus foot bombs. I know there supposedly some done but I would like a video evidence and explanation w reliable sources.. also all these homers need to be actual distance traveled and also projected distance traveled..
I remember when Miami opened up their new stadium. In the first week or baseball in that stadium, Stanton hit one some 470 ft to straightaway left field, so hard he broke the jumbotron out there. It was pretty funny!
How does true distance work? I just want to know because some of ESPN's "sciencey calculations" have been very, very upsetting. For example, this year Frazier's 485 foot home run got adjusted to 440 what the heck? Might not have gone 485, but certainly not 440, did you see where that ball landed IN THE UPPER DECK CENTER FIELD? Same with Holliday's 467 foot home run this year. And yet, ESPN somehow adjusted Adam Dunn's shot in 2008 to freakin' 504 feet, that ball didn't even travel as far as Juan Francisco's 2011 shot out of the stadium that somehow got adjusted to 482 feet! ESPN, your calculations are as bogus as your sports writing! Get a life!
They measure trajectory, wind speed, and off bat speed to measure where the ball would have landed had it not hit anything. Which is, had the ball returned safely to ground level.
what the hell? I didn't see the Trumbomb anywhere. And as far as most pop, I'd say: Mark Reynolds, Giancarlo (obvi), and Mark Trumbo. And probably Justin Upton.
Thought I would see Miguel Cabrera on this list, but then I realized this list only one one aspect of talent, where was prince fielder, and of course might wouldn't be on this list, he has hit more homer's then any one on this list
Of course theres no Adam Jones in the parking lot at Fenway or no Nelson Cruz. Talk about Gianicarlo Stanton Bandwagon. Showing a bunch of teams that are trash.
This is based off of HitTracker's website. HitTracker calculated Jones and Cruz's homers at less than 462 feet, which is the shortest distance homer on this video. Also, Stanton had 7 HR of 450+ feet or more, with 5 of 460+ feet, that's why he's on this list so frequently.
Look man I'm an Orioles fan too, But Stanton is a beast, because he swings so hard and really gets into them. I wish Chris Davis would actually try hitting the ball hard. When he homers, it look like he's putting in minimal effort and they go soaring. I think in 2013 he hit a ball almost 470 feet in San Fran, but he barely tried. If he really reared up, took his hardest swing and laid into one, I bet he could go +500 feet easily.
Your distances are way off on these. Springer's 465 foot shot lands about eight feet behind the center field fence and it's 435 to straightaway center. And I saw Matt Holliday absolutely peg the centerfield scoreboard in Milwaukee about twenty feet higher than Ozuna's shot and they said it was 445. He hit it so hard you could hear it on the broadcast and the whole park shut up.
I mean, they're not right though. Look at the Springer homer and tell me that's not a 440 foot shot at most. I don't really trust any of the distances given for homers these days. Last year at the home run derby, Giancarlo Stanton almost hit a ball completely out of the park and ESPN said it was something like 410 feet. Get out of here, the ball landed 8 rows from the top of the stadium!
Matt Garvey They only use projected distances. The Stanton homer you're talking about was actually 510 feet. I don't know much about the accuracy of it, but it's all relative anyway.
Projected distances whatever. How far did the ball actually travel is the question. Like the Holliday homer. If it didn't hit the scoreboard it would have gone 500 feet. But it didn't. And with the Stanton homer in the derby, how does it actually travel about 500 feet but the projected distance is far less? Makes no sense.
How can George Springer's HR be 465 ft when it wasn't quite dead center, nad dead center is is only 436? It was 440 at best. Which is still amazing, but it's not 465.
