barry bonds hit the most home runs in baseball history.
barry bonds hit the most home runs in baseball history.
who hit the most home runs in baseball history?
barry bonds
on november 19, 2015, bryce harper was announced as the winner of the 2015 national league most valuable player award. the youngest player ever to be selected as a unanimous choice, receiving all 30 first-place votes, he became the first player in the history of the montreal-washington franchise to win the award, and the first player for a washington, d.c., major league baseball team to win it since shortstop roger peckinpaugh won the 1925 american league most valuable player award with the original washington senators. the 2015 season was the first one in which harper had stayed healthy all year since debuting in the major leagues in 2012, allowing him to play in a career-high 153 games. he posted a .330 batting average, .460 on-base percentage, and .649 slugging percentage, led the major leagues with a 1.109 on-base plus slugging percentage, had a national league-high 195 ops+, walked 124 times, hit 42 home runs, scored 118 runs, drove in 99 runs, and had a 9.5 fwar. only seven other players – babe ruth, barry bonds, lou gehrig, mickey mantle, and ted williams among them – had ever had batting averages, home runs, on-base percentages and slugging percentages in a single season equal to or better than harper′s in 2015. he was the first player in major league baseball history to combine at least 42 home runs and 124 walks in one season by age 22.
2015 washington nationals season
in august, howard hit 11 home runs with 33 runs batted in, after just six the month before. on august 24, in a game against the new york mets, howard went 2 for 5 with 2 home runs and 5 runs batted in. howard also recorded his 100th runs batted in of the season. this marked the fourth consecutive season that howard had reached the 100 runs batted in mark. his batting average in the month was .299, raising his overall average to .275. he was named the nl player of the month for these achievements. howard was named nl player of the week on august 31. howard hit 5 home runs, 12 runs batted in, 28 total bases, and a 1,000 slugging percentage during that stretch. on september 18, in a game against the braves, howard hit his 39th and 40th home run of the season. this marked the fourth time in his career that he had hit 40 or more home runs in a season. on october 3, howard hit his 45th home run of the season and became only the fourth player in major league baseball history (joining babe ruth from 1926–1931, ken griffey jr. from 1996–1999, and sammy sosa from 1998–2001) to amass at least 135 rbi and 45 home runs in four consecutive seasons.
ryan howard