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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.)

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

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

Fred McGriff once hit a baseball from the Bronx to Connecticut and didn't look like he was trying all that hard

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?

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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 More than 28 years after Jose Guillen cut down Neifi Perez at third, there's ANOTHER jaw-droppingly mutant throw out of RF in Denver, and this time it's Tyler Freeman hosing Sal Stewart on zero hops. WHAT. A. CHUCK. 🤯

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

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

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

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.

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks Just HOW mad is Mad Max Scherzer? During a rehab start last year, he broke up his own perfect game by issuing an intentional walk 😭

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

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

I’ve never seen this Barry Bonds homer in Japan before… wow. Lefty-lefty, and he just destroys this ball, pimps the shit out of it, and makes you wonder why anyone would ever throw him a pitch over the plate.

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

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?

In 2002, home run king Barry Bonds hit an absolute nuke off Troy Percival that nearly slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of Tim Salmon, prompting the Angels slugger to say "that's the furthest ball I've ever seen hit." Power vs. power.

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

Drop whatever you're doing, folks Butch Huskey, rest his soul, hits a COLOSSAL home run off Atlanta southpaw Denny Neagle, a no-doubter that sails deep into the night for his second homer of the game. (July 1997, in the midst of Huskey's best season.)

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.

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 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.

Drop whatever you're doing, folks Sit back, relax, and enjoy this awesome 1971 New York Yankees promo video. You'll ask yourself fun questions like: • "Is that Thurman without a mustache?" • "What the f–– is Fritz Peterson's accent?" • "Is Ralph Houk the funniest man alive?"

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