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Longest Home Runs: Pre-Statcast Era 1: Babe Ruth, New York Yankees - 575 feet (1921)* 2: Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees - 565 feet (1953)* 3: Reggie Jackson, Oakland Athletics - 539 feet (1971) 4 (tie): Adam Dunn, Cincinnati Reds - 535 feet (2004) 4 (tie): Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates - 535 feet (1978) 6: Dave Kingman, New York Mets - 530 feet (1976) 7: Darryl Strawberry, New York Mets - 525 feet (1988) 8: Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians - 511 feet (1999) 9: Mo Vaughn, New York Mets - 505 feet (2002) 10 (tie): Joe Borchard, Chicago White Sox - 504 feet (2004) 10 (tie): Adam Dunn, Arizona Diamondbacks - 504 feet (2008) No Frank Howard? *distance after ball rolled for a while and maybe carried by a local stray animal

Mantle's 565' blast: The ball cleared Fifth Street directly behind the left field wall and proceeded to roll until finally stopping 565-feet from home plate in the backyard of 434 Oakdale Street a few blocks down. Ruth's 575' blast: They combed hundreds of newspaper accounts from the days afterward and found that the majority of the stories put the actual distance in the 550-560 foot range -- with the Boston Globe's Mel Webb having the most accurate depiction. He was the only writer to actually go out and measure the distance of the ball from home plate. Webb walked all the way out to right-center field, foot after foot, to where, for some reason, a security guard had marked the ball's final resting spot with a pile of stones. “I measured the distance covered by Babe’s homer yesterday, making it in 179 strides of slightly more than a yard. The boost was certainly better than 540 feet.” Why can't stadiums be built so that balls can just roll an extra 100' as measured by a team publicist or sports reporter?

Ottavino was so dialed in that he wasn't focused on Arroyo.

That cop's Statcast page is all blue for sure.

Rafaela RF Duran CF

In this instance, it was about the '25 Sox. I'm not sure if it would change for other years.

Ask Wade Boggs how adding the 406 club impacted the ball at Fenway. Just because there are two ballparks in 100 miles of one another, doesn't make it an apples to apples comparison. RFK had a high roof that went all around the ballpark. Camden Yards is out by the water and completely open. Physics will impact a ball's trajectory uniquely at each ballpark.

Raffy has been in camp for a long while, even before many pitchers. I think his shoulder just isn't ready and they want him close to 100% before they ramp him up.

Trayce Thompson is OLDER than Rob Refsnyder.

If Anthony is on the Opening Day roster, there is no room for a guy like Trayce Thompson. I think Anthony starts in AAA due to the plague.

Chris Hatfield said something pretty interesting that I'll summarize "the Opening Day roster doesn't matter all that much, what really matters is the roster on Game 162."

Howard played at stadiums that don't exist today. In its ten seasons as the Senators' home field, RFK Stadium was known as a hitters' park, aided by the stagnant heat (and humidity) of Washington summers. Slugger Frank Howard, (6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 255 lb (116 kg)), hit a number of "tape-measure" home runs, a few of which landed in the center field area of the upper deck.

He probably does.

If Tiger Stadium still existed, we'd see balls up there. The fact of the matter is that the stadiums have all changed so it's not an apples to apples comparison. Manny hit some moonshots in TOR from what I remember. I wonder what that would have looked like at Tiger Stadium? I think the numbers are probably just more accurate now. It's like how people are trying to say that Nolan Ryan was the hardest thrower of all time and if guys today throw 105, he must have thrown 110. It's the "things were better back then" nonsense that we deal with all the time. https://www.mlb.com/video/aaron-judge-s-10-longest-homers-of-his-career Manny Ramirez TOR 5th deck Manny Ramirez Upper Deck Yankee Stadium

He's about to turn 34! Born 3/15/91 His wRC+ was below 100 last season in AAA in 432 PA's as a 33 year old! If you only want to look at his MLB numbers, go for it, but there is a reason he's been a AAA guy (9 seasons, 2350 PA's) and is now in his 10th organization.

Soto played OF and had numerous 5+ fWAR seasons. Vlad just isn't that guy.

Abreu and Anthony have been out. There's just additional playing time available due all the nonsense going on.

Right now, Campbell is getting a lot of time in LF, but I think it's mainly due to the illness/injuries in the OF that have provided an easy opening for him to be slotted in and that the Sox really want to get as many opportunities as possible for Grissom at 2B. I think they'd rather Campbell/Hamilton at 2B, but need to see what they have in Grissom who missed a considerable amount of time last year.

Injuries may have went down in one year, but that also is a small sample size IMO.

I have one, it's great.

If he's trying to get 15/600ish, is it worth it? I'd be more comfortable with something in the 12/480 area as the back half of that contract could get very Pujols/Cabrera-ish. He's not a guy who has consistently mashed year to year and offers very little on the field. He shouldn't be anywhere near the neighborhood of Juan Soto's deal.

That's why they get 4-5 days off in between starts and don't usually throw more than 110 pitches anymore! The pitch clock is two years old. TJS uptick started well before this.

The giveaways were short, lefthanded, lots of red accoutrements and high socks. If you pulled Reggie Jefferson, it may take posters a bit longer to figure out.

It may be Adams vs Ottavino vs Winck, but I think they really want to keep one of these veteran depth guys on for the start of the season. Ottavino had a decent stretches last season (3/30 - 5/28 3.32 ERA/2.93 FIP, 6/8 - 9/17 2.83 ERA/3.41 FIP). Adams started off strong last season (2.37 ERA/3.32 FIP on 6/1), but fell apart after 7.90 ERA/6.68 FIP 6/2 - 7/13).