The 2026 MLB home run leaders, who's been hottest over the last week, who owns Fridays, how the day-game and night-game splits shake out, and the first-inning sluggers — a snapshot of what has happened, not a prediction of what comes next.

Home run leaders

Season-to-date home run leaders, per Statcast.

1Kyle Schwarber (PHI)
HR: 37Avg exit velo: 106.4
2Matt Olson (ATL)
HR: 35Avg exit velo: 106.3
3Yordan Alvarez (HOU)
HR: 35Avg exit velo: 107.6
4Junior Caminero (TB)
HR: 35Avg exit velo: 106.8
5Hunter Goodman (COL)
HR: 34Avg exit velo: 105.8
6Ben Rice (NYY)
HR: 32Avg exit velo: 103.6
7James Wood (WSH)
HR: 30Avg exit velo: 108.6
8CJ Abrams (WSH)
HR: 29Avg exit velo: 102.8
9Shohei Ohtani (LAD)
HR: 27Avg exit velo: 108.8
10Pete Crow-Armstrong (CHC)
HR: 27Avg exit velo: 104.0

Home run leaders - last 7 days

Who's gone deep most over the past week.

1Eugenio Suárez (CIN)
HR (7d): 4Avg exit velo: 102.8
2Alex Bregman (CHC)
HR (7d): 4Avg exit velo: 98.8
3Kyle Schwarber (PHI)
HR (7d): 4Avg exit velo: 104.3
4Jac Caglianone (KC)
HR (7d): 3Avg exit velo: 111.2
5Jackson Merrill (SD)
HR (7d): 3Avg exit velo: 106.5

Home run leaders on Fridays

Who has gone deep most often on Fridays this season, and how hard they hit them.

1Ben Rice (NYY)
HR: 11Avg exit velo: 104.5
2Matt Olson (ATL)
HR: 10Avg exit velo: 106.6
3Max Muncy (LAD)
HR: 8Avg exit velo: 106.0
4Yordan Alvarez (HOU)
HR: 8Avg exit velo: 107.5
5Kazuma Okamoto (TOR)
HR: 8Avg exit velo: 106.6
6Junior Caminero (TB)
HR: 8Avg exit velo: 108.5
7Michael Harris II (ATL)
HR: 7Avg exit velo: 107.4
8Daylen Lile (WSH)
HR: 7Avg exit velo: 103.5
9Pete Alonso (BAL)
HR: 6Avg exit velo: 104.9
10Rafael Devers (SF)
HR: 6Avg exit velo: 102.4

Home run leaders - day games

Home run rate in day games — who plays up under the sun.

1Esmerlyn Valdez (PIT)
HR/game: 0.500HR: 10Games: 20
2Aaron Judge (NYY)
HR/game: 0.476HR: 10Games: 21
3Casey Schmitt (SF)
HR/game: 0.351HR: 13Games: 37
4Ben Rice (NYY)
HR/game: 0.341HR: 14Games: 41
5Kyle Schwarber (PHI)
HR/game: 0.316HR: 12Games: 38
6Brent Rooker (ATH)
HR/game: 0.312HR: 5Games: 16
7Tyler Stephenson (CIN)
HR/game: 0.300HR: 9Games: 30
8Drake Baldwin (ATL)
HR/game: 0.296HR: 8Games: 27
9James Wood (WSH)
HR/game: 0.294HR: 15Games: 51
10Griffin Conine (MIA)
HR/game: 0.286HR: 6Games: 21

Home run leaders - night games

Home run rate under the lights.

1Byron Buxton (MIN)
HR/game: 0.469HR: 23Games: 49
2Munetaka Murakami (CWS)
HR/game: 0.367HR: 18Games: 49
3Yordan Alvarez (HOU)
HR/game: 0.354HR: 28Games: 79
4Matt Olson (ATL)
HR/game: 0.329HR: 28Games: 85
5Hunter Goodman (COL)
HR/game: 0.329HR: 25Games: 76
6Kyle Schwarber (PHI)
HR/game: 0.316HR: 25Games: 79
7Juan Soto (NYM)
HR/game: 0.314HR: 16Games: 51
8Junior Caminero (TB)
HR/game: 0.300HR: 21Games: 70
9Miguel Vargas (CWS)
HR/game: 0.279HR: 19Games: 68
10Luis García Jr. (NYY)
HR/game: 0.279HR: 17Games: 61

First-inning HR leaders

Who goes deep earliest — first-inning home run leaders.

1Shohei Ohtani (LAD)
1st-inn HR: 12Avg dist (ft): 405
2Junior Caminero (TB)
1st-inn HR: 11Avg dist (ft): 412
3Yordan Alvarez (HOU)
1st-inn HR: 10Avg dist (ft): 402
4James Wood (WSH)
1st-inn HR: 10Avg dist (ft): 417
5Kyle Schwarber (PHI)
1st-inn HR: 10Avg dist (ft): 399
6Drake Baldwin (ATL)
1st-inn HR: 9Avg dist (ft): 412
7Sal Stewart (CIN)
1st-inn HR: 9Avg dist (ft): 398
8Byron Buxton (MIN)
1st-inn HR: 8Avg dist (ft): 402
9Yandy Díaz (TB)
1st-inn HR: 8Avg dist (ft): 384
10Joc Pederson (TEX)
1st-inn HR: 8Avg dist (ft): 406

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