The Bomb Squad: The Longest Home Runs in MLB During Week-10

Paced by Ketel Marte’s 486-footer, here’s the “Bomb Squad,” the 25 longest home runs hit in MLB during the first week of June.

The average MLB home run carries about 400 feet. But there was nothing average about these bombs, the 25 longest of the week, each of which flew at least 429 feet.

Leading the parade was Ketel Marte, who led off for the Arizona Diamondbacks against Steven Matz and the New York Mets last Sunday in the grandest possible style. Arizona’s first hitter pounded a 2-0 fastball onto the concourse in deep left center at Chase Field for a 482-foot home run, setting the path for an eventual 7-1 victory.

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It was an especially wondrous week for Cleveland catcher Roberto Perez. Renowned as a defensive specialist but an offensive lightweight, Perez muscled up in a major way this past week.

On Tuesday, he delivered a 439-footer off Twins rookie Devin Smeltzer. Then on Saturday, Perez went even deeper, this time a 447-footer off Yankee pitcher Jonathan Holder. They were respectively the 12th and sixth longest blows of the week.

Perez was the only player to author two of the week’s longest bombs.

Colorado’s Jeff Hoffman enjoyed the week far less than Perez. In the fifth inning of Tuesday’s game in Chicago, Hoffman delivered a 3-2 pitch that Kyle Schwarber nearly sent onto Sheffield Avenue. The shot carried 467 feet, making it the week’s third-longest home run in MLB last week.

One inning later, Hoffman served up a first-pitch meatball to Javier Baez that flew 440 feet, the week’s eighth longest.

That made Hoffman the trigger behind 917 feet worth of home runs in the span of just four batters.

The week’s hardest hit home run? That belonged to Colorado Rockies catcher Chris Iannetta. On Sunday, Iannetta turned around an Aaron Sanchez pitch at 113.1 mph, sending it on a 476-foot flight to the farthest reaches of Coors Field.

At least Sanchez still has a job. On Friday, three days after Smeltzer served up the first of Perez’s two massive taters, the Twins sent him back to Triple-A.

For the record, the average distance of the 25 rockets making this week’s list was in excess of 443 feet.

From longest to “shortest,” here are the 25 longest bombs for the week of June 2 through 8. In the case of ties, exit velocity is the tie-breaker.

Rank  Player                       Team    Pitcher                       Team    Date   Exit velo.   Dist.

1        Ketel Marte                Ari.       Steven Matz              NYM     6-2      111.9         482
2        Chris Iannetta            Col.      Aaron Sanchez          Tor.       6-2       113.1         476
3        Kyle Schwarber         Chc      Jeff Hoffman              Col.      6-4       111.2         467
4        Yoan Moncada          CWS     Stephen Strasburg   Was.   6-4       112.5         458
5        Garrett Cooper          Mia.     Chase Anderson        Mil.      6-4       106.8         447
6        Roberto Perez           Cle.     Jonathan Holder         NYY     6-8       105.8         447

7        Brian Anderson         Mia.     Jimmy Nelson            Mil.      6-4       111.1         446
8        Nelson Cruz               Min      Blaine Hardy              Det       6-8       108.3        445

9       Edwin Encarnacion  Sea.     Brady Rogers             Hou.    6-5       111.2         442
10     Javier Baez                 Chc       Jeff Hoffman              Col.      6-4       107.3        440
11     Wil Myers                   SD        Jake Arrieta                 Phi.      6-4       105.5        440
12     Roberto Perez          Cle.        Devin Smeltzer          Min.     6-4       109.1       439
13    Christian Yelich         Mil.       Caleb Smith                Mia.      6-6       108.1        439
14    Josh Donaldson        Atl.        Geoff Hartleib            Pit.       6-4       104.8        439

15    Hunter Pence           Tex.       Brett Anderson          Oak.      6-7      106.4        439
16    Franmill Reyes         SD        Edgar Garcia                Phi.      6-2        111.1       438
17    Pablo Sandoval       SF         Zack Wheeler              NYM     6-6       108.3       438
18    Marcus Semien      Oak.      Lance Lynn                   Tex.       6-7       104.4       438

19    Marcel Ozuna          Stl.        Jon Lester                     Chc.      6-8       109.5       437

20    Luke Voit                   NYY     David Price                   Bos.      6-5       104.5       436
21    Vlad Guerrero Jr.     Tor.       Zack Britton                 NYY      6-5       109.9       434
22    Tim Federowicz      Tex.      Ryan Dull                      Oak.      6-8        103.6      434

23   Nolan Arenado        Col.       Justin Shafer                Tor.       6-2        105.0       432
24   Jorge Soler                KC        Adrian Sampson          Tex.      6-2        110.5       430
25   Mike Trout                LAA      Yusei Kikuchi                 Sea.     6-8        110.3       429