As expected, the Yankees broke the single-season home run record last season. It’s usually silly to say a team or a player is expected to break a record, especially a home run record, but once the Giancarlo Stanton trade went down, the expectation was the Yankees would at least challenge the homer record, if not break it. Break it they did.
Here is a real quick recap of the home run records set by the 2018 Yankees:
- Single-season record with 267 home runs, three more than the 1997 Mariners.
- Most players with double-digit homers (12!