MLB Home Run Leaders 2025

What this chart shows. The twelve hitters who hit the most home runs in the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season, with three players tied on 36 in tenth place. Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners led the majors with 60, four more than Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies on 56. Shohei Ohtani hit 55 for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Aaron Judge 53 for the New York Yankees, so four players reached 50 in the same season.

How the data is collected. The figures come from MLB's official Stats API, which publishes a season line for each of the 765 players who batted in a major league game in 2025. A player who changed teams during the season appears once, with his combined total: Eugenio Suárez hit 36 for the Arizona Diamondbacks and 13 for the Mariners, 49 in all, and Rafael Devers hit 15 for the Boston Red Sox and 20 for the San Francisco Giants. The two league leaders, Raleigh in the American League and Schwarber in the National League, match the leader tables on Wikipedia's page for the season.

Background. MLB's glossary defines a home run as a fair ball on which the batter scores without being put out and without the help of an error. Almost every home run clears the outfield fence, but a ball that stays in play and lets the batter circle all four bases also counts, as an inside-the-park home run, which the glossary calls extremely rare. The same page describes home runs as a measure of a hitter's power, and of a pitcher's success when he keeps them down.

Limits. MLB notes that home run totals depend on the ballpark: some parks are smaller, have higher walls or different wind currents, so a ball that leaves one stadium might stay in another. Only regular-season games are counted, and postseason home runs are left out. The chart also ignores playing time: Nick Kurtz of the Athletics hit his 36 in 117 games, while Raleigh played 159.