Baseball has lengthy revered power-hitting teammates. It goes all the way in which again to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, if not earlier than, and continued by means of Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris with the 1961 Yankees, Willies Mays and McCovey in San Francisco, the Bash Brothers of the late ’80s, Massive Papi and Manny Ramirez on the Crimson Sox. Ought to we go so far as the one-year partnership of Juan Soto and Aaron Decide within the Bronx?
So who’re the very best slugging duos in 2025? Let’s rank them.
The D-backs traded away top-of-the-line sluggers in baseball this season and nonetheless discovered a means into the highest 10 behind their franchise cornerstones. Carroll leads the majors with 14 triples along with his 26 homers and 21 doubles, paving the way in which for a .561 slugging proportion. Marte has 21 dwelling runs in simply 86 video games and is slugging .536.
The All-Star break was a pleasant showcase for the teen right here in Junior Caminero. He now sits with 33 dwelling runs right here in his age-21 season, doing a little heavy lifting to prop the Rays as much as ninth place in these rankings. Lowe isn’t any slouch as a slugger. He has hit 39 dwelling runs in a season earlier than and he sits with 23 proper now in 97 video games.
Kurtz’s star was on the rise anyway, however his four-homer recreation in late July actually put him on the map. He is slugging a ridiculous .626 by means of 80 profession video games with 23 dwelling runs. Take into account, as is usually the case, there was an adjustment interval for Kurtz on the big-league stage. If we lopped off his first 23 profession video games, he is hitting .340/.429/.745 with 18 doubles, a triple and 22 homers in 57 video games since.
The tough resolution with these A’s was choosing the second man as a result of three have been firmly within the combine. I went with Rooker over Shea Langeliers and Tyler Soderstrom by a nostril as a result of former having hit 39 homers final season along with his 24 this 12 months with a .500 slugging proportion.
Torkelson is likely one of the few gamers on this record who is not slugging .500 (he is at .488). Remoted energy (“ISO”) subtracts batting common from slugging proportion to measure, if you’ll, which gamers get probably the most bang for his or her buck with their hits. Torkelson is fifteenth within the majors in ISO (the highest 4, for these curious, so as: Aaron Decide, Cal Raleigh, Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Schwarber). Torkelson has 26 homers. That is solely adequate for second on the crew right here, as younger star Greene has 27 with a .507 SLG.
Although their offense has struggled the final a number of weeks, the Cubs have two of the 11 gamers in baseball this season with no less than 27 dwelling runs. They’re the one crew to have loved all of these homers (that’s to say that there is one other crew with two gamers within the high 11, however a type of was acquired on the commerce deadline).
Pop quiz: Are you aware the final time the Cubs had a 30-homer participant? It was 2019. Schwarber had 38 and Kris Bryant had 31. Even Javier Báez’s 29 that season is greater than any Cubs participant have hit in a season since. However Suzuki and PCA are each on tempo to hit 37 this 12 months. If both will get scorching once more, 40 is attainable. The Cubs have not had a 40-homer man since Derrek Lee hit 46 in 2005.
You would argue this duo needs to be a lot greater — even No. 1 — or should not even make the highest 10. Why? It is all concerning the variance from Massive G. When Stanton is wholesome and going properly, the Decide-Stanton combo is probably the most menacing in baseball. It is simply that Stanton is so typically damage or hitting terribly today. At current, he solely has 11 dwelling runs this season, however these 11 got here in his final 29 video games and he is slugging .548 general.
Decide is, in fact, a Hallof Fame-caliber slugger nonetheless in his prime.
The Mets are damaged proper now. There is not any debating that. They’re nonetheless in playoff place and a really gifted crew, although, so we won’t ignore the ability of their slugging duo. Alonso is tied with Darryl Strawberry for probably the most dwelling runs in Mets historical past and is poised to take the mantle for himself any day now. This season, he has 26 dwelling runs with a .511 slugging proportion.
Everyone knows Juan Soto, however he is gotten a lot destructive consideration this season some folks may be stunned that he is really main the crew with 28 homers. Solely six gamers in all of baseball have extra dwelling runs this 12 months and 4 of them are nonetheless to return in these rankings.
Loads of arguments might be made right here. Andy Pages is definitely second on the Dodgers in dwelling runs with 19 whereas Teoscar Hernández has 18. Max Muncy has 17 homers in solely 88 video games and Will Smith has a better slugging proportion than Freeman. Freeman remains to be a harmful hitter with a .303 common and 140 OPS+, in fact, and I feel the World Collection efficiency remains to be recent sufficient in my head for him to prevail over these others listed right here.
The following argument can be that I am unable to rank a crew with one man having 14 homers and a .487 slugging proportion this excessive. My response to that’s Ohtani has 42 homers and a .624 SLG. He does the heavy lifting right here and it would not matter who the second banana is.
By the identical token, Schwarber has 42 homers with a .584 SLG. His 4 seasons with the Phillies thus far, in dwelling runs: 46, 47, 38 and 42. He went from a enjoyable participant to legitimately top-of-the-line sluggers in all of baseball.
The Phillies get the slight edge over the Dodgers right here attributable to Harper having 17 homers in solely 90 video games with a .490 SLG. Like Freeman, he is nonetheless acquired the pedigree to place concern into an opponent when moving into that batter’s field, however he is nearer to his prime slugging age and has a bit extra pop at this level.
There should not be an argument for No. 1, although.
1. Mariners – Cal Raleigh and Eugenio Suárez
As issues presently stand, Suárez hasn’t achieved a lot in any respect with the Mariners because the commerce (.105 common with one dwelling run and a .211 slugging), however that is solely a 10-game pattern. We’re speaking about the very best dwelling run hitter this season in Raleigh together with a man who has hit 37 whole dwelling runs thus far this season and it is the sixth season in his profession he is topped 30. I do not suppose Suárez goes to get again on the home-run hitting tempo he had with the D-backs earlier than the deal, however he’ll begin popping them once more quickly sufficient.
The underside line is right here on Aug. 12, the Mariners have a participant with 37 dwelling runs of their lineup and he is trailing a teammate for the major-league lead by eight.
Who would’ve thought heading into this season that the Mariners may have been ranked first on this record come the center of August?
