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Harper hit his 12th home run on Aug. 19 in New York to pass Robin Yount, another member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Milwaukee Brewers shortstop debuted as an 18-year-old, and he hit three home runs that season and eight the next season before turning 20 prior to the 1976 season. Yount finished with 251 career home runs to go with 3,142 hits.
After two years as a part-timer, Ott hit .322 with 18 homers and 77 RBI as the Giants’ starting right fielder. Renteria’s was runner-up in a close race for NL Rookie of the Year. Displaying a mature and disciplined approach at the plate, Soto posted an impressive BB/K ratio and never endured a hitless streak of more than two games. Soto made a great case for NL Rookie of the Year, but finished second to Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. Dwight Gooden became a national sensation pitching for the New York Mets in 1984 at the age of 19.A teenager getting to the Show is always special.
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It is interesting that Tony, the teenage leader, and Yaz, the post-40 beliringer, were teammates on the Boston Red Sox. Ott debuted at 17, but didn’t homer until he was 18, in his second season in the Majors. His first home run was an inside-the-parker off the Cubs’ Hal Carlson. The only home run as a teenager of Upton’s career was this one, in his first home game and fifth overall game in 2007. He went yard off the Pirates’ Tom Gorzelanny, one of two home runs he’d hit that season.
His home run came in what ended up being his final career game. He homered off the Pirates’ Earl Francis in the bottom of the third inning, and not only was that his first and only career home run, but it was also one of just two career hits. Kirkpatrick hit his first career home run in his 19th career game. The Angels’ youngest home run could’ve been even younger -- he had debuted at 17 years old in 1962 but was held homerless in three games. Kirkpatrick’s solo homer on July 15, 1963, was the Angels’ only run in a 2-1 loss to the Red Sox. He’d go on to hit 85 career home runs, 17 of which came with the Angels.
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He and Pakistani duo Shahid Afridi and Ahmed Shehzad are the only three cricketers to score two ODI hundred before entering the age of 20. On his 39th birthday a year ago, Rodriguez was serving a season-long suspension for violations of baseball's drug agreement and labor contract. A-Rod marked his 40th birthday Monday night by homering for the New York Yankees against Texas, the team that gave him his first huge contract. Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times, the second most such titles in MLB history. Lip Pike led the league with four home runs in 1877, tied with Paul Hines for the lowest total to ever lead a league.
Over the course of his 22-season career, Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs twelve times. Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League. Kiner's seven consecutive titles from 1946 to 1952 are also the most consecutive home run titles by any player. The future Hall of Famer homered in his sixth career game off the Orioles’ Ross Grimsley. Oddly enough, Yount’s first two homers both came off Grimsley, even though one was in mid-April and the next was in mid-June. Yount went on to hit 251 career home runs, win two MVP Awards and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.
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With 24 home runs, Tony Conigliaro set the bar pretty high at 19 years old during his rookie season of 1964 with the Boston Red Sox. But a closer look at Bryce Harper's statistics reveals that the precocious slugger has an outside shot at setting the all-time record for most home runs by a teenager. A classic slugger who struck out a ton and never hit for a high average, Killebrew clubbed at least 40 home runs eight times during a 12-year stretch in the late 1950s/early '60s. Arguably the least well known of any player on this list, Thome was a potent power source for the Indians, Phillies and White Sox from the late 1990s through mid-2000s. He enjoyed a monster 2007 season in Cleveland, when he hit 52 home runs and led the league in slugging (.677) and OPS (1.122).
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Though it was remarkable, he got torched in his lone teenage appearance and didn't set foot on a big league field for another eight years. Mike Trout and Alex Rodriguez also debuted as teenagers, yet didn’t find real, sustainable success until their 20s. Afridi is also the player to have batted more innings as a teenager in ODIs. McGwire’s home run heroics will never be fully appreciated by most baseball enthusiasts due to his alleged involvement with steroids, but his numbers are absolutely incredible. He broke Roger Maris’ single-season mark with 70 home runs in 1998 and followed up with 65 the next season.
Causey went on to hit 35 home runs across an 11-year career with five teams. He hit two of his 35 career home runs -- his first two -- for the Orioles. Dierker proved to be one of Houston’s most consistent pitchers the following two teenage seasons, posting 29 quality starts, nine complete games, and two shutouts. Banks was perhaps the best player in the game in the late 1950s, earning back-to-back NL MVP Awards in 1958 and ’59 while playing the demanding position of shortstop. He hit a total of 92 home runs with 272 RBIs during that stretch while leading the league in games played both seasons.
Upton had been the then-Devil Rays’ first pick in the 2002 MLB Draft, going second overall after the Pirates took Bryan Bullington. He debuted in early August of 2004 as a 19-year-old, and went yard for the first time on Aug. 17. He hit his first career homer off Angels starter Kelvim Escobar in an 8-3 Rays win. Upton notched 164 career home runs, 118 of which came with the Rays’ franchise. Causey, an infielder, debuted in early June and hit his first career home run in his seventh game, becoming the youngest player in franchise history with a home run. He wasn’t even 19 years old when he hit that first homer, against the Tigers at Memorial Stadium.
Ibanez’s 29 homers with the 2013 Seattle Mariners tied him with Ted Williams for the most home runs hit by someone over 40 in a single season. The member of the famed ’84 Tigers hit 49 home runs after 40 while playing for Detroit and finished his career with 11 as a 42-year-old with the 1989 Atlanta Braves. The 19-year-old hit his first career home run in his 49th career game off the Boston Braves’ Jim Wilson. Del Greco finished his career with 42 home runs, three of which he hit for the Pirates, in 1952 and 1956. In 1989, "The Kid" hit the first 16 home runs of a Cooperstown-caliber career. The smooth-swinging lefty finished with 630 home runs, and reached his career high of 56 home runs in consecutive seasons.
The 19-year-old lefty hitter finished April batting a solid .291 and established himself as one of the American League’s top rookies in May, hitting .402 with a .996 OPS across 27 games. Mathews was a consistent power hitter for the Milwaukee Braves in the '50s and early '60s, hitting at least 30 home runs nine straight seasons. He led the league twice, with 47 in 1953 and 46 in '59, and was a 12-time All-Star. A late bloomer, “Big Papi” didn’t emerge as a big-time power hitter until his late 20s when he was signed by Boston after an uneventful six years with the Twins.
But sometimes it's legendary when someone so young sustains the same success as established veterans. Only three players have crossed the 1000 runs mark before entering their 20th year of age – Shahid Afridi, Sachin Tendulkar, & Tamim Iqbal. The runs scored under the age of nineteen have been taken into consideration, and the players are ranked on that basis. Considered by some to be the best third baseman of all time, Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times during one 15-year stretch. He played his entire 18 years with the Phillies and was named NL MVP on three occasions. ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSNewYork/AP) — Alex Rodriguez is hitting home runs in his 40s, just like he did as a teenager.
Profar was a September callup in 2012, playing in just nine games. But in his very first plate appearance, he took the Indians’ Zach McAllister deep for a home run. He became the third player in Rangers history to homer in his first career at-bat, joining Brant Alyea in 1965 and John Kennedy in 1962. This one should come as no surprise -- that The Kid, who debuted at 19 years old for the Mariners in 1989, holds the franchise record for youngest home run. Griffey hit his first home run off the White Sox Eric King in his sixth career game, and went on to hit 630 home runs, which stands as the seventh most all time.
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