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Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Top prospect Jesus Made clobbers a homer that looks like it shouldn’t be possible… over the fence, over the trees, into the parking lot. (You can tell right off the bat that it’s going far, but I still gasped audibly.)

For a second I was legitimately like “wait, do they not make you round the bases in the WBC?”

The Bananas are just a harmless, baseball-adjacent entertainment product, they said Bananaball won’t unduly and detrimentally influence actual youth baseball, they said

This throw to second by the catcher is literally such a laser beam that it doesn’t look real It looks like a video game throw

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks We all know that Robinson Cano has one of the greatest swings of his era, but check out the absolute stillness of his head, even in slow motion; he’s locked in on that baseball and then his hands explode right through it

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Kansas City right fielder Matt Stairs (NEPTA) comes up firing but accidentally snipes first baseman Ken Harvey with his throw home 🥴

Great example of old vs. new values By the eye test, this is a marvelous catch, the kind fans are glad they paid money to see By analytics, this had an 85% catch probability per The WARmonger &amp; only looked hard because of a bad jump Is it good or bad?

Listen, say what you want about him, but this is a good piece of hitting. Facing a lefty with a weird delivery, Arraez stays with it and drives the ball through the 5-6 hole for a game-tying base hit. The Padres would go on to win. We Stan This Man

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New Giants manager Tony Vitello, who had no professional baseball experience prior to 2026, told his bullpen he wanted a new pitcher, but didn’t specify which one, leading to absolute chaos and confusion. The Giants are 16-24.

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Enjoy this clip of young child Alfonso Soriano, wearing #58, clobbering a walk-off bomb at Old Yankee Stadium for his first big league hit If he had the glove to stick at a middle infield position, he’d be in Cooperstown

The biggest factor in Luis Arraez becoming one of the league's premier second basemen is his work with the GREAT Ron Washington. Every team but the Giants had already written him off as only a 1B or DH, but San Francisco allowed Arraez to move back to 2B.

Here’s another ludicrous clip of Jose Canseco hitting a baseball so hard you’d swear it couldn’t possibly be round anymore The strength, the quickness, the abject violence… I’m pretty sure nobody swung the bat as hard as he did &amp; it’s just nuts to watch

Don’t even try to tell me that this Andres Galarraga nuke off Kevin Brown at Pro Player Stadium was going any less than 800 feet

Imagine having this guy in your lineup Canseco cleanup was the height of luxury

Update: Trevor Bauer returns from the Japanese minor leagues, immediately surrenders the longest home run in recorded history

You’ve all seen Andres Galarraga take Kevin Brown 800 feet out of Pro Player Stadium, but have you seen Andres Galarraga hit the giant Coca-Cola bottle in left field at Oracle Park? I think he’s the only one ever to reach it, and he was 40 when he did it.

Folks, I’m going to say something that just THINKING about makes my heart pound with anticipation… I’m probably bright red and I feel an impending sense of shame, but… What if Hrbek WAS better than Mattingly?? This video is INSANE 🤯 🤯 🤯

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Feast your eyes on this positively mutant throw by Jose Guillen, a rocket from the right field warning track straight into the glove of the third baseman on no hops, handily cutting down Neifi Perez Is this THE greatest throw of all time?

Folks, drop whatever you’re doing This is simply incredible stuff right here Two of baseball’s most cerebral geniuses, Barry Bonds and Greg Maddux, breaking down the absolute chess game that was their approach to competing against one another

I feel like you should be fairly certain the ball is leaving the yard if the thought of not running hard out of the box even crosses your mind

In December of 1995, the Yankees acquired Tino Martinez from Seattle and made him the successor to Don Mattingly, one of the most beloved figures in franchise history. You know the rest: Tino led the Torre dynasty in home runs and won 4 rings in 5 years.

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks In case you’d forgotten what a gorgeous swing Garret Anderson had, here’s a great clip of the reigning World Series champion toppling peak Albert Pujols in the 2003 Home Run Derby finals Rest in peace to an Angels icon

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Rafael Palmeiro, age 60, launches nuke after nuke with that timeless, iconic swing, looking as smooth and effortless as ever. You think he needed PEDs? You couldn’t be more wrong. Just watch these missiles leave the yard. Raffy could swing it.

John Sterling wasn’t just an unabashed Yankees homer — he was genuinely a baseball fan. Baseball was his passion! Here he is calling the end of the 2003 World Series and talking about how much the Marlins deserved their win.

Another iconic call by John Sterling, this one of the clutch 1996 World Series home run by Jim Leyritz at Atlanta. Mark Wohlers had a 100-mph fastball, but he didn’t throw it. (He should have.)

My goodness, folks Present-day Jose Canseco, age 61, hits a ball completely out of Aviators Stadium in Las Vegas, sending this one 525+ feet into the night The former MVP and first member of the 40/40 club hit 462 homers during his big league career

Two years ago today, Jose Ramirez beat the living baseball IQ right out of Tim Anderson Anderson has hit zero homers since that date while Ramirez has been an All-Star every year and continues to build a first-ballot Hall of Fame career for himself

Andres Galarraga may have hit some of the longest home runs in MLB history, but perhaps the *biggest* homer of his career was this blast at Turner Field in his first game back after missing the entire 1999 season battling cancer. Folk hero-level stuff!

Great example of old vs. new values By the eye test, this is a marvelous catch, the kind fans are glad they paid money to see By analytics, this had an 85% catch probability per The WARmonger & only looked hard because of a bad jump Is it good or bad?

Here’s another ludicrous clip of Jose Canseco hitting a baseball so hard you’d swear it couldn’t possibly be round anymore The strength, the quickness, the abject violence… I’m pretty sure nobody swung the bat as hard as he did & it’s just nuts to watch

Andres Galarraga may have hit some of the longest home runs in MLB history, but perhaps the biggest homer of his career was this blast at Turner Field in his first game back after missing the entire 1999 season battling cancer. Folk hero-level stuff!