Bleacher Report · Jun 18, 2019
MLB's Team of Unknowns Could Obliterate All-Time Home Run Record
Nelson Cruz is the Minnesota Twins' most famous slugger, but he isn't their best.The team that was supposed to break Major League Baseball's single-season home run record in 2019 has big-name sluggers from top to bottom.
In other words, not the Minnesota Twins.
In addition to an outstanding 47-24 record, the Twins have racked up 137 home runs thus far in 2019. That leads MLB, and their average of 1.93 homers per game works out to a full-season pace of 313. That would be 46 more than the record-setting 267 that the New York Yankees hit last season.
The Twins aren't slowing down, either. In fact, their home runs per game are going up by the month:
March/April: 1.85
May: 1.93
June: 2.07