The Farthest and Hardest Hit Home Runs of the 2024 MLB Season

The lists are dominated by some of the game's most recognizable hitters.

Josh Wilson | Jul 22, 2024

Giants outfielder Jorge Soler hits a ball / John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports

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As MLB resumed following the midseason All-Star break, batters stepped up to the plate ready to rake again. Sunday's games coming out of the break featured two of the five furthest-hit baseballs of the 2024 season, including the furthest-hit (478 feet) from Jorge Soler, and a 473-foot bomb from Shohei Ohtani.

Top 10 furthest-hit home runs of 2024 MLB season

Below are the 10 furthest-hit home runs of the 2024 MLB season so far. Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge both occupy the top-10 twice, while everyone else on the list is just a one-timer.

Unsurprisingly, the humid, hot air of the last few months has made for many of the farthest-hit balls, with only one from April still on the list of top-10: Mike Trout's 473-foot bomb on April 1.

The two furthest home runs from Soler and Ohtani were both hit at Coors Field in Denver.

Batter	Distance (ft.)	Date
Jorge Soler	478	July 21
Shohei Ohtani	476	June 18
Mike Trout	473	April 1
Aaron Judge	473	May 9
Shohei Ohtani	473	July 21
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	471	June 24
Luis Robert Jr.	470	June 29
Bobby Witt Jr.	468	May 21
Aaron Judge	467	May 15
Logan O'Hoppe	467	June 15

Here's a raw count of home runs longer than 450 feet:

Batter	Home runs above 450 feet
Shohei Ohtani	6
Aaron Judge	4
Oneil Cruz	3
Ryan McMahon	3
Yordan Alvarez	2
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	2
Rece Hinds	2
Jorge Soler	2
Christian Walker	2
Bobby Witt Jr.	2

Top 10 hardest-hit home runs of the 2024 MLB season

Furthest is one measure, but how about the hardest hit? Here is a look at the home runs that came off the bat fastest.

Batter	Exit velocity (MPH)	Hit distance
Giancarlo Stanton	119.9	447
Giancarlo Stanton	118.8	421
Shohei Ohtani	118.7	450
Oneil Cruz	117.7	462
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	117.5	445
Oneil Cruz	117.3	452
Yordan Alvarez	116.8	395
Matt Wallner	116.7	389
Shohei Ohtani	116.7	473
Giancarlo Stanton	116.2	417

Here are the number of times each batter has hit a home run with an exit velocity faster than 115 MPH:

Batter	HRs above 115 MPH exit velocity
Aaron Judge	3
Shohei Ohtani	3
Giancarlo Stanton	3
Oneil Cruz	2

There are still a few months left of the season, so there is plenty of time for new names to hit their way onto either of these leaderboards.

Published Jul 22, 2024

JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.