Last Updated on December 14, 2025 by Matt Musico
Each season, we give a lot of attention to the longest home runs. And that’s understandable — watching tanks is extremely fun.
But it’s also important to give some love to the shortest home runs each year. I mean, wall-scrapers count the same as the ones that are still in orbit.
You’ll find information on the 10 shortest homers of the 2025 season below (with the accompanying videos, because duh), followed by some general observations about this group of taters.
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The Shortest Home Runs of the 2025 Season
Jarren Duran, Boston Red Sox: 266 Feet
Date: 8/31/2025
JARREN DURAN GO-AHEAD INSIDE-THE-PARK HOME RUN! pic.twitter.com/xtgYaQBpd6
— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) August 31, 2025
Trevor Story, Boston Red Sox: 306 Feet
Date: 9/1/2025
The ruling on the field is … HOME RUN!?
You see something new every day in this beautiful game! pic.twitter.com/kw0S5YBsuz
— NESN (@NESN) September 1, 2025
Ceddanne Rafaela, Boston Red Sox: 308 Feet
Date: 6/4/2025
CEDDANNE RAFAELA WRAPS ONE AROUND PESKY POLE TO WALK IT OFF! pic.twitter.com/6c8mxR8MmL
— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 4, 2025
Alex Bregman, Boston Red Sox: 316 Feet
Date: 9/13/2025
Alex Bregman solo dinger to put the Red Sox on the board pic.twitter.com/SE6CUiEXu2
— Dillard Barnhart (@BarnHasSpoken2) September 13, 2025
Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels: 320 Feet
Date: 4/10/2025
Trouty Time ✅
Mike Trout Home Run💥
97.7 MPH 33° 320 Feet📏Mike Trout homers (4) on a fly ball to right field. Luis Rengifo scores. 90.8 MPH sinker thrown by Zack Littell.#Angels 7 – Rays 1 Top 5th👀
Credit: Fanduel West#Trout #Angels #GoHalos #LAAvsTB pic.twitter.com/fFkR5nIPrt— Anaheim Sports (@AnaheimSports1) April 10, 2025
Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves: 321 Feet
Date: 5/5/2025
Matt Olson circles the bases, but Reds rookie Tyler Callihan was in some serious pain trying to make the play. Prayers up 🙏 pic.twitter.com/UhcyaJuadG
— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) May 6, 2025
Jose Caballero, New York Yankees: 322 Feet
Date: 9/19/2025
Jose Caballero GOES DEEP against his old team! pic.twitter.com/P5xE2nT7eH
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) August 20, 2025
Luis Arraez, San Diego Padres: 323 Feet
Date: 9/23/2025
Luis Arraez keeps it fair, and the @Padres are up big early on! pic.twitter.com/IEKsnfg2Zl
— MLB (@MLB) September 24, 2025
Yandy Diaz, Tampa Bay Rays: 326 Feet
Date: 8/2/2025
Yandy Díaz pokes this one the opposite way and @RaysBaseball has an early lead! pic.twitter.com/HwkjZCKIdE
— MLB (@MLB) August 2, 2025
Aaron Judge, New York Yankees: 326 Feet
Date: 5/20/2025
Judge Jolt 💪#AllRise pic.twitter.com/zh1cuKTGu6
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) May 21, 2025
Fenway Park Is Well Represented
For those keeping score at home, each of the four shortest home runs of the 2025 campaign happened at Fenway Park. And they all came off the bat of Red Sox hitters.
Obviously, Duran’s sticks out from the other three since it was an inside-the-park home run (and more on that in a little bit).
But for the other three, they each unsurprisingly used the short right-field corner and the Pesky Pole to their advantage. Rafaela’s home run is a little extra special because it gave Boston a walk-off victory against the Angels. This 308-foot tater is not only the shortest Red Sox homer of the Statcast era, but it’s also the shortest walk-off home run by any player since 2015.
There’s Also Some Great Symmetry Here
I love doing some comparing and contrasting between each year’s longest and shortest home runs because of the potential symmetry at play. When I think about the shortest home runs of any year, the first two guys that come to mind are certainly not Aaron Judge and Mike Trout.
But that’s baseball, baby.
Judge’s 326-foot home run was his shortest of 2025, but he also made plenty of appearances on our list for the year’s longest moonshots. The three-time AL MVP Award winner also slugged three balls at least 468 feet in 2025.
And while Mike Trout hasn’t been the same guy we watched in awe during the 2010s, he still knows how to hit balls a country mile. That 320-foot homer of his was the shortest of the year, but he also slugged a pair that traveled more than 480 feet.
So Close to Matching Last Year’s Inside-The-Parkers
Duran is the only guy on this list to hit a homer that didn’t actually leave the yard. While there were quite a few in 2025, it’s the second straight year that an inside-the-parker ended up atop our list.
The only difference, though, is that the two shortest homers in 2024 were both inside-the-parkers (Jackson Chourio at 264 feet and Elly De La Cruz at 282 feet).
But if Kyle Farmer’s inside-the-park home run didn’t get switched back to a ground-rule double, this would’ve been a different conversation. He lined a Jose Leclerc pitch down the left-field line at Coors Field on April 4. It only traveled 127 feet in the air, according to Statcast. The ball rolled to the wall, which led to Miguel Andujar putting his hands up for a ground-rule double because the ball was “stuck” (it very much wasn’t). But that was unfortunately the final call, robbing us of something cool.
As for Duran’s homer, it was the perfect blend of solid contact and excellent placement. He found the gap in right-center field and hit it hard enough to send it all the way to the triangle. With his speed, it was a foregone conclusion that he’d motor all the way around. Duran didn’t even have to get his jersey dirty.
(Information sourced from OnlyHomers.com and double-checked via Statcast.)
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