We all expected the Yankees to put up a monster home run total this season. After all, Aaron Judge hit 52 to break baseball’s rookie record last year. Gary Sanchez and Didi Gregorius set new franchise marks for homers at their respective positions, swatting 33 and 25, respectively. The addition of Giancarlo Stanton to the team during the offseason made us long to witness him repeat — or at least approach — his 59 homer output again while wearing pinstripes.
Joshua Diemert recently wrote about the Yankees’ chances to break the single-season team home run mark set by the Seattle Mariners, when they bashed 264 in 1997.