2025 MLB Home Run Records Tracker: Will Raleigh, Judge and Ohtani Make History?

Who doesn’t enjoy a home run? Who cares, this story isn’t for them, anyway. This one’s for the long ball-lovers.

With the way dingers are flying off the bat of some players, we’re bound to see some homer history in 2025. Just how much history, though? That’s what we’ll be finding out over the last weeks of the season, which will — fingers crossed — be full of home runs.

Statistics updated through Aug. 3, 2025.

Cal Raleigh : 42 HR, 110/113 G, 61-HR Pace

The Mariners’ backstop is MLB’s home run leader, and as of now the only one to hit at least 40 of them in 2025. He’s sat out three games with Seattle this season, which means his pace rounds down to 61 home runs at the moment assuming he plays in the rest of them. He likely will need at least one day off between now and the end of the year, however, so it’s vital that he has a big week to pump up his home run total and his pace at some point.

Vital for what purpose? Raleigh is chasing three different home run records. He’s already hit the most homers by a switch-hitting catcher in a single season ever, passing Todd Hundley’s 41 bombs in 1996, but next up is the single-season record for homers by any catcher: Salvador Perez’s 48 from 2021. Perez also led the majors that year, which Raleigh might very well manage. Perez and Johnny Bench — on two occasions — are the catchers who have pulled that off before. So Raleigh might have the most home runs by a catcher and the most home runs by a catcher leading the league in homers, depending on how the rest of the year shakes out.

If Raleigh reaches 50 home runs, he’ll be the 33rd player in league history to do so. Just 32 have ever hit 50 home runs, although 10 of those players have done so multiple times, and their repeat