The Yankees are currently tied for third place on the MLB leaderboards for home runs, smashing 46 of them in their first 34 games. That's something that the team and their fans are more than familiar with at this point.
The 2020 Yankees ranked fifth in homers. In 2019, they were number two. In 2018, they were number one, which is also where they rank in cumulative home run totals since 2000, and since 1980, and since 1950, and since 1900. By a large margin. You get the idea... but we'll give you a clearer picture anyway, showing how the top ten home-run-hitting teams stack up in the modern era of baseball (via Stathead).
| Rk | Year | Tm | Lg | G | HR | SLG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1903-2021 | NYY | AL | 18400 | 16355 | .406 |
| 2 | 1901-2021 | DET | AL | 18722 | 13938 | .395 |
| 3 | 1901-2021 | BOS | AL | 18688 | 13836 | .399 |
| 4 | 1900-2021 | CHC | NL | 18873 | 13525 | .385 |
| 5 | 1901-2021 | CLE | AL | 18697 | 13268 | .392 |
| 6 | 1900-2021 | CIN | NL | 18865 | 12988 | .384 |
| 7 | 1900-2021 | PHI | NL | 18811 | 12762 | .380 |
| 8 | 1900-2021 | STL | NL | 18861 | 11813 | .387 |
| 9 | 1901-2021 | CHW | AL | 18693 | 11633 | .376 |
| 10 | 1900-2021 | PIT | NL | 18845 | 11216 | .384 |
It doesn't look like they're going to give up that lead any time soon, for many reasons. One is obvious — the margin between them and the No. 2 Tigers is so wide that it will take decades and decades of poor power in New York to change things. But another, more important reason is that it seems as though there will be potent sources of home run production for years to come. And we're not talking about Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, (hopefully) Gleyber Torres and the other guys currently wearing pinstripes on the largest stage. We're not even talking about Yankees top prospect (and MLB.com's No. 27 overall prospect) Jasson Dominguez, who is as close to a sure thing at the professional level as we've seen from a teenager in recent years.
No, in this case we're talking about a player who isn't even in the Yankees' top five, or ten, or twenty prospects. We're talking about a guy who hit a respectable 18 home runs across three seasons of college baseball at Arizona State, as opposed to then-teammate Spencer Torkelson, who hit 54 in a similar sample size and was selected first overall by the Detroit Tigers in the 2020 draft. The man in question is named Trevor Hauver, who's a second baseman/outfielder that currently ranks as the Yankees' No. 23 prospect and who is absolutely raking to kick off his Minor League Baseball career with the Tampa Tarpons.
Baseball America placed Hauver atop their list of the hottest prospects in baseball over the last week, and for good reason. He's slashing .556/.654/1.611 in his first five games with six home runs — count 'em, six — and 13 runs batted in. They're not officially tracking bat flips as a stat, but I'd have to assume he's among the league leaders in that category as well.
Hauver was taken with the No. 99 overall pick in the 2020 Draft, and WFAN's own Lou DiPietro wrote up his and other players' draft profiles after they were selected. Check them out here, in addition to MLB.com's brief scouting report of Hauver below.
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