The Cincinnati Reds minor league 2019 longest home runs

Last week we took a look at the longest home runs of the various teams and levels throughout the Cincinnati Reds farm system. Today we are going to take a look a little bit more in depth. First, here’s how the Top 20 shapes up:

Some of these things aren’t that surprising. Seeing Aristides Aquino at the top of the list surprises no one. He’s got some real thunder and everyone knows that. TJ Hopkins showing up third and 12th on the list is a bit more surprising. He’s not exactly known for his power. He played in four seasons at South Carolina and hit a total of 19 home runs in 187 games and 640 at-bats. But, as you can see below in the much longer list, he hit three different home runs at least 440 feet with the Mustangs this season.

Louisville had the most 400+ foot home runs of any farm team. They had 73 of them. That’s more 400+ foot home runs than Daytona had total home runs. Juiced baseball and all, but still. Chattanooga had 37 such home runs, while Daytona had 27, and Dayton had 18. Looking at the teams in rookie-ball, Billings had 23, Greeneville had 18, the AZL Reds had 12, and the DSL Reds had 7. While the Bats had the most 400+ foot home runs, it was actually Billings that had the highest rate of 400+ foot home runs account for their total home runs. It was close, but the Mustangs edged out the Bats here 45.1% to 44.8%. Dayton was at just 23.4%, with the DSL Reds at just 20%. Everyone else fell between the 35-40% range.

When it comes to individual players who hit the most 400+ foot home runs, you got a taste of that answer if you followed along last week. Only three players did it at least 10 times. Only six players did it at least 7 times.

• Ibandel Isabel – 20
• Aristides Aquino – 16
• Brian O’Grady – 11
• Nick Longhi – 9
• Hendrik Clementina/Rob Refsnyder – 7

As it was noted last week, Ibandel Isabel did things in the Southern League that statistically speaking, are hilarious. 20 of his league leading 26 home runs hit on the season were 400+ feet. Both Aristides Aquino and Brian O’Grady hit 28 home runs on the year for Louisville and had plenty of them top the 400 foot mark. What’s interesting here is that Nick Longhi hit 9 home runs at least 400+ feet. It’s interesting because he only had 12 homers on the year. That means that 75% of the home runs he did hit were really hit.

Here’s the list of all 217 home runs that went at least 400 feet in the farm system in 2019.