Top 7 Single-Season Marlins Home Run Leaders

Last Updated on September 26, 2026 by Matt Musico

Which players are among the single-season Marlins home run leaders? There are plenty of familiar names, but maybe also a surprise or two.

Let’s dig into the seven most powerful seasons in franchise history for Miami. 

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Marlins Home Run Leaders: Top 7

Giancarlo Stanton: 59 Home Runs in 2017

We should be thanking our lucky stars that Giancarlo Stanton was healthy enough to play a full year in his prime. His 59 dingers are among the most home runs in a season in MLB history, and he made that effort worthwhile. He not only led baseball with that number, but he also led the league with 132 RBI and won his first NL MVP Award.

What Stanton did in July and August made this outrageous number possible — he slugged 30 of his 59 homers over those two months. But there are other ways to look at his performance. As one would imagine, when the right-handed slugger was cookin’, the Marlins were winning. He slashed .381/.476/.862 with 41 home runs and 96 RBI in victories. Those numbers dropped to .183/.273/.403, 18, and 36, respectively, in losses.

It’s also worth noting that Stanton spent the majority of his plate appearances in the two-hole. He racked up 493 plate appearances in that spot of the order, and it’s a spot where he launched 47 of his home runs.

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Gary Sheffield: 42 Home Runs in 1996

Gary Sheffield is also on the Dodgers’ single-season home run leaderboard. But before that happened, he enjoyed his first 40-homer campaign with the Marlins. Sheff had been with Florida since the middle of the 1993 season, but 1996 was the first opportunity he had to play more than 140 games. He appeared in 161 and took advantage by slashing .314/.465/.624 with 42 home runs, 120 RBI, and 118 runs scored.

The outfielder found a way to be consistent in most situations during this campaign. Whether he was facing a lefty or a righty, at home or away, or doing it before or after the All-Star break, his OPS wasn’t much different.

The same could be said when looking at his monthly performance. He posted an OPS above 1.000 in five of six months, with the lone exception being a .985 mark in May. He also didn’t hit fewer than five homers in any month, with April (11) and August (nine) being the high points.

Giancarlo Stanton: 37 Home Runs in 2014 and 2012

The 2014 season was Stanton’s age-24 campaign, but he’d already racked up plenty of dingers. This performance was the second time he slugged 37, and it was his third year with at least 30 homers. It was the first time he appeared in 140-plus games since 2011, and it was also the first time he led the league in homers.

Despite playing in a cavernous loanDepot park, Stanton made a habit of slugging plenty of dingers in front of the home crowd. In this instance, 24 of his 37 homers came in Miami. And while he didn’t enjoy a month with double-digit home runs, he did hit eight on three occasions (April, May, and August). Those were also the only three times he racked up at least 20 RBI in a month, too.

Although Stanton played in just 123 games during the 2012 season, he made the most of his opportunity. It was his third season in the big leagues, and his progression was looking mighty tasty. Check it out: 

• 2010: 22 homers and .507 slugging percentage in 100 games
• 2011: 34 homers and .537 slugging percentage in 150 games
• 2012: 37 homers and .608 slugging percentage in 123 games

He was named an All-Star for the first time in his career during the 2012 campaign and finished 24th in NL MVP Award voting. Stanton missed most of July (he appeared in just four games), but when he came back in August, it looked like he didn’t miss a beat. Across 88 plate appearances, he slashed .313/.341/.759 with 10 homers, seven doubles, and 22 RBI.

Marcell Ozuna: 37 Home Runs in 2017

While Stanton was busy lighting the world on fire in 2017, his teammate, Marcell Ozuna, was enjoying a career year. In the two seasons that preceded his 2017 performance, the outfielder collected 33 homers and 120 RBI in 1,102 plate appearances. It took him about half the time (679 plate appearances, to be exact) to outperform both of those numbers (37 homers and 124 RBI).

Ozuna also enjoyed hitting at Marlins Park, where 22 of his homers were launched. And if we look at his season in two-month increments, he remained quite consistent in the power category.

The right-handed hitter slugged 14 homers by the end of May, and another 10 between June and July. He finished strong by slugging a combined 13 round-trippers between August and September.

Jorge Soler: 36 Home Runs in 2023

The Marlins weren’t the best on offense in 2023. However, who knows how bad things would’ve been without Jorge Soler in the middle of the lineup? After hitting just 13 homers in 72 games played for Miami in 2022, he slugged 36 across 137 games played the following year.

This was the first time he surpassed the 30-homer plateau since setting the Royals’ franchise record in 2019 with 48 taters.

Soler posted two months of double-digit homers. This included 12 in May and 10 in August. And if he wasn’t limited to just 12 games in September/October, he would’ve hit more than one. That would’ve enabled him to shoot up the leaderboard a little higher. Finishing in fifth ain’t too shabby, though.

What jumps out in his splits is that he loved jumping on pitchers in his first plate appearance. When facing a starting pitcher for the first time in a game, Soler hit 10 total homers. And when he faced a reliever for the first time, he hit 12 total homers.

Miguel Cabrera: 34 Home Runs in 2007

We had a tie here between Miguel Cabrera and Stanton, who also hit 34 homers in 2011. So, we went to the tiebreakers, and Miggy won in both wRC+ (142 vs. 141) and fWAR (5.0 vs. 4.2). This was Cabrera’s final season with the Marlins before getting traded to the Detroit Tigers, and he went out with a bang.

It was his fourth straight season with 100-plus RBI, a streak that went on for another seven years. It was also his third season of 30-plus homers, and his first of seven straight years reaching that benchmark.

Regarding 2007, it’s obvious that if you kept Miggy in check at the plate, opposing teams had a good chance of winning. In wins, Miggy slashed .424/.508/.784 with 23 home runs and 81 RBI. In losses, his triple slash dropped to .235/.308/.386 with 11 homers and 36 RBI. For those keeping score at home, that’s an OPS of 1.292 in victories and .694 in losses.

Check out the rest of the Marlins’ single-season home run leaderboard on FanGraphs.

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