Last Updated on November 19, 2024 by Matt Musico

After going over the longest home runs overall and the longest for each club in 2024, I completed the other end of the spectrum. Now we not only know who hit the shortest homers overall this past year, but who hit the shortest home run in 2024 for every MLB team.

A handful of players on this list who also slugged the longest homer of the year for their team. There are also three inside-the-park homers highlighted, which is always fun. The order I’ll go in here will be as follows: AL East, AL Central, and AL West followed by the NL East, NL Central, and NL West.

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Shortest Home Run in 2024 for Every MLB Team

American League East

Baltimore Orioles

Anthony Santander, 332 Feet

Tony Taters (which is one of my favorite baseball nicknames these days) set a new career-high mark in 2024 with 44 dingers. The switch-hitter picked a good time to do that, as he’s now a free agent and looking to cash in.

Boston Red Sox

Enmanuel Valdez: 318 Feet

Enmanuel Valdez posted a 103 OPS+ in 149 plate appearances as a rookie in 2023. That number dropped to 74 in 223 plate appearances this past season.

New York Yankees

Jose Trevino: 325 Feet

While a .642 OPS usually isn’t anything to write home about, it was a sizeable improvement from 2023 for Jose Trevino when his OPS settled in at .570.

Tampa Bay Rays

Curtis Mead: 327 Feet

This was the first and only home run of Curtis Mead’s 2024 season. Making it among the shortest of the year is a good way to make it count a little extra, right? He also doubled his career homer output with this blast.

Toronto Blue Jays

Nathan Lukes, 341 Feet

This was not only Nathan Lukes’ first homer of the year for Toronto, but it was also his first career MLB home run. After struggling to a .598 OPS in 31 plate appearances as a rookie in 2023, he posted a .818 OPS in 91 trips to the plate this past year.

American League Central

Chicago White Sox

Luis Robert Jr.: 329 Feet

Luis Robert Jr. has the honor of hitting Chicago’s longest and shortest home run of the year. He wasn’t the only one to accomplish that feat in 2024, either.

Cleveland Guardians

Josh Naylor, 331 Feet

Josh Naylor enjoyed a breakout year in the run production arena for the Guardians. His 31 homers and 108 RBI are both single-season career-high marks.

Tyler Freeman, 331 Feet

Tyler Freeman owns a .632 OPS in parts of three seasons with Cleveland. But after hitting four homers in 254 plate appearances from 2022-23, he hit seven in 383 trips to the plate in 2024.

Detroit Tigers

Riley Greene, 343 Feet

Riley Greene just about doubled his career power production in about half the time. He slugged 16 homers with 79 RBI from 2022-23 (834 plate appearances). Those numbers settled in at 24 and 74, respectively in 2024 (584 plate appearances).

Kansas City Royals

Freddy Fermin, 338 Feet

Interestingly enough, all six of Fermin’s 2024 home runs came against right-handed pitchers. And despite only mustering nine doubles in 122 plate appearances against southpaws, his slugging percentage was higher against lefties (.376 vs. .361).

Minnesota Twins

Carlos Santana, 342 Feet

Carlos Santana is aging like fine wine. The dude was in his age-38 season with the Twins and essentially mirrored his 2023 production while also winning a Gold Glove Award at first base. Four was his favorite number of the year. He slugged exactly that many homers in four different months for Minnesota.

American League West

Athletics

Max Schuemann, 341 Feet

Schuemann struggled through August for the A’s, hitting .169/.286/.225. He collected just two extra-base hits during the month. This was his only homer during that time.

Houston Astros

Kyle Tucker, 336 Feet

Kyle Tucker only appeared in 78 games this year. If he was healthy for a full season, who knows what we could’ve seen him do. His .993 OPS would’ve been the highest single-season mark of his career and he still managed to post his fourth straight 20-homer campaign.

Los Angeles Angels

Taylor Ward, 346 Feet

Taylor Ward is the Angels’ 2024 home run king, so this honor is just another one to add to his mantle piece. The most homers he hit in a month was seven. He did that twice — March/April and September. That’s how you start and finish strong.

Seattle Mariners

Jorge Polanco, 341 Feet

This was Jorge Polanco’s first season with the Mariners, and he didn’t like calling T-Mobile Park home very much. Seven of his 16 homers were launched there, but he also slashed .193/.284/.322.

Texas Rangers

Adolis Garcia: 328 Feet

When I think of Adolis Garcia, I envision tanks being launched off his bat. But sometimes, he hits a wall scraper. Happens to the best of us. He enjoyed his fourth straight year of 25-plus homers and joined the 100-homer club in the process.

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Shortest Home Run in 2024 for Every MLB Team

National League East

Atlanta Braves

Matt Olson, 337 Feet

This was Olson’s first homer of the year. After setting the Braves’ single-season home run record in 2023 with 54 dingers, he finished 2024 with 29.

Miami Marlins

Nick Gordon, 340 Feet

Nick Gordon has hit seven homers during his four-year career. He’s hit more than one just once (four in 2022). This dinger was the only one he slugged for the Marlins in 2024.

New York Mets

Mark Vientos, 346 Feet

Many Mets fans don’t want to think about where New York would’ve been this year without Mark Vientos’ emergence. This is a guy who didn’t make the Opening Day roster and wasn’t in the big leagues for good until May 15. He finished with a .837 OPS, 27 homers, and 71 RBI in 454 plate appearances.

Philadelphia Phillies

Austin Hays, 351 Feet

This was Austin Hays’ first home run after getting acquired by the Phillies at the trade deadline. He’d only slug one more dinger for Philly, finishing the regular season with a .672 OPS in 22 games.

Nick Castellanos, 351 Feet

Nick Castellanos was the picture of consistency in the power department over his final four months of the regular season. He slugged exactly four homers in each month from June through September.

Washington Nationals

Eddie Rosario, 333 Feet

Eddie Rosario struggled with his production in 2024. After posting a .755 OPS in 142 games for the Braves in 2023, his OPS dropped to .531 in 91 games in 2024.

National League Central

Chicago Cubs

Pete Crow Armstrong, 330 Feet

Pete Crow-Armstrong’s inside-the-park home run is punctuated by what I think is one of the best slides I’ve ever seen. Trea Turner-esque, don’t you think? Just super smooth all around.

Cincinnati Reds

Elly De La Cruz: 282 Feet

Speaking of speed, Elly De La Cruz is a human cheat code with his ability to fly around the bases and hit balls 450-plus feet with regularity. And he’s not even going to turn 23 until January. It’ll be fun to watch him grow as a player.

Milwaukee Brewers

Jackson Chourio: 264 Feet

We’ve got our third inside-the-park homer in a row! Jackson Chourio is another player who hit the longest and shortest homer for his club in 2024. He picked things up after the All-Star break, as his OPS went from .678 in the first half to .914 in the second half.

Pittsburgh Pirates

Rowdy Tellez, 339 Feet

Despite having 70 more plate appearances, Rowdy Tellez’s 2024 season (13 homers, 56 RBI, .691 OPS), looked quite similar to his 2023 campaign in Milwaukee (13 homers, 47 RBI, .667 OPS).

St. Louis Cardinals

Brendan Donovan, 334 Feet

Brendan Donovan has maintained an OPS in the upper-.700s throughout his first three big-league seasons, but his homer production has improved each year. It’s gone from five in 2022 to 11 in 2023 and 14 in 2024.

National League West

Arizona Diamondbacks

Geraldo Perdomo: 319 Feet

Geraldo Perdomo hit three homers in 2024. All three came in August despite racking up at least 50 plate appearances in four different months.

Colorado Rockies

Sam Hilliard, 344 Feet

Sam Hilliard is another dude who slugged the longest and shortest homers of the year for his squad. While his OPS at Coors Field (.868) was much better than his road OPS (.756), he split his homer production right down the middle, hitting five in each situation.

Los Angeles Dodgers

Cavan Biggio, 332 Feet

This was Cavan Biggio’s fifth and final home run of the 2024 season. It was a weird one for him, as the number of teams he played for (three) nearly outpaced his homer production.

San Diego Padres

Luis Campusano, 329 Feet

This was the first of eight homers for Campusano in 2024, which is now a new career-high mark. He accomplished that feat in 299 plate appearances after hitting seven in 174 trips to the plate in 2023.

San Francisco Giants

LaMonte Wade Jr.: 321 Feet