Greatest Home Run Hitters

[Nasty_Boy]

With all the PEDs being involved now. And so forth. And stats being bloated from eras to eras. Who are the greatest Home Run Hitters in your eyes.

Here is a list of the Top Home Run Hitters of All Time and their totals:

* As of September 21st, 2010

Barry Bonds 762
Hank Aaron 755
Babe Ruth 714
Willie Mays 660
Ken Griffey, Jr. 630
Sammy Sosa 609
Alex Rodriguez 608*
Jim Thome 589*
Frank Robinson 586
Mark McGwire 583
Harmon Killebrew 573
Rafael Palmeiro 569
Reggie Jackson 563
Manny Ramírez 555*
Mike Schmidt 548
Mickey Mantle 536
Jimmie Foxx 534
Willie McCovey 521
Frank Thomas 521
Ted Williams 521
Ernie Banks 512
Eddie Mathews 512
Mel Ott 511
Gary Sheffield 509
Eddie Murray 504
Lou Gehrig 493
Fred McGriff 493
Stan Musial 475
Willie Stargell 475
Carlos Delgado 473
Dave Winfield 465
José Canseco 462
Carl Yastrzemski 452
Jeff Bagwell 449
Dave Kingman 442
Andre Dawson 438
Chipper Jones 436*
Juan González 434
Vladimir Guerrero 434*
Cal Ripken, Jr. 431
Mike Piazza 427
Billy Williams 426
Jason Giambi 415*
Darrell Evans 414
Andruw Jones 407*
Duke Snider 407
Albert Pujols 405*

As far as where I would rank them, I think Pujols is a Top 10 Home Run Hitter right now, in the All Time ranks due to longevity of doing it, unless he gets called out on PEDs.

I would rank Jimmie Foxx in the Top 5, just based on sheer stats to his peers. Willie Stargell is a Top 10 just because we all knew that if he played at Yankee stadium, he'd have Ruth numbers. Those numbers he accomplished at Forbes Field is monsterous.

[joeylion]

RYAN HOWARD :)

lol... yes I am biased for sure. It is a shame though that he didn't get called up until he was 25 (Thome was playing 1st for Philly at the time)... fastest to 200 HR, only 30 this year, but he missed about 6 weeks. Love his swing, could have a run at getting to 600 before all is said and done

[hunter082006]

Babe Ruth is still the greatest!!

[wrigleyfield]

well i love sosa! and griff and bonds had a sweet swing! PED's or not fun to watch. and wow look at andruw. i didnt know he had that many. just think where he could rate if whatever happened to him didnt happen....

[Nasty_Boy]

No offense, I'm a Giants guy and I think Howard was a much better Jay Buhner/Dave Kingman. It was better off for him to stay in the minors til he was 25. Otherwise, he'd be swinging like those 2.

RYAN HOWARD :)

lol... yes I am biased for sure. It is a shame though that he didn't get called up until he was 25 (Thome was playing 1st for Philly at the time)... fastest to 200 HR, only 30 this year, but he missed about 6 weeks. Love his swing, could have a run at getting to 600 before all is said and done

[Nasty_Boy]

well i love sosa! and griff and bonds had a sweet swing! PED's or not fun to watch. and wow look at andruw. i didnt know he had that many. just think where he could rate if whatever happened to him didnt happen....

Sosa and Bonds (I'm a SF guy) shouldn't even be spoken of in the same conversation as Foxx, Williams, Ruth, Aaron, and Mays.

Griffey played in a long ball era but his swing is what makes me believe he is a Legit (At least) Top 10 Home Run Hitter.

[gladdyontherise]

I'm still convinced that Bonds is the greatest home run hitter, regardless of the PEDs, the guy was just a scary hitter..I look back to the 2004 season i think it was where he had an OBP of .600+ and managed 45 Homers

[Nasty_Boy]

No way. I'm a Giants Fan and I still think he's #2 on the SF Giants list period.

I heard a story from John Miller on the radio, who is the Giants Broadcaster and got inducted into the HOF in 2010, about Willie Mays in the 80s and being out in Spring Training, launching home runs to everyone's amazement. I believe Will Clark (Working for the SF Giants now) even backed up the story on the radio and said Willie would laugh at someone with a 32 ounce bat and he would pick up like a 36 or 40 ounce or something like that, and launch homeruns that made other Giants players shake their heads.

And that woulda meant Willie Mays was in his mid 50's.

I'm still convinced that Bonds is the greatest home run hitter, regardless of the PEDs, the guy was just a scary hitter..I look back to the 2004 season i think it was where he had an OBP of .600+ and managed 45 Homers

[joeylion]

No offense, I'm a Giants guy and I think Howard was a much better Jay Buhner/Dave Kingman. It was better off for him to stay in the minors til he was 25. Otherwise, he'd be swinging like those 2.

point taken!

[Nasty_Boy]

point taken!

Yeah Ryan has Buhner and Kingman's Home Run swing but he doesn't have the "All for Broke" Stroke that I like to say about Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire and those 2 I mentioned.

Howard's a good hitter. I just see too many young homerun hitters come up early and never learned how to be patient and is somehow stuck in Quad AAAA Ball (Not good enough for MLB but too good for AAA) like John Bowker of the Giants.