Reds Minor Leagues: Longest Homers of 2023

The Cincinnati Reds minor league season came to an end over the weekend when the Louisville Bats picked up a sweep of a doubleheader on Sunday to finish with a winning record for the first time since 2011. That makes it a perfect time to wrap up the longest homers of the year articles that we had throughout the season.

Home run distances are going to vary in their measurement systems. Triple-A now has Hawkeye installed at each ballpark, so those distances will be from that. In Daytona all of the road ballparks in the league also have Hawkeye so those home runs will also be using that. Sometimes we will get Trackman data from other stadiums, and sometimes I will simply use video review and google maps measurement tool to get those distances.

Since the last update, which came at the end of July, there were 160 home runs hit in the non-complex leagues. That gives us a whole lot of home runs to parse through, but here were the five that went farther than the rest in that time:

1. Henry Ramos: 495 Feet – August 10th

It hasn’t been confirmed that this baseball landed yet. It was the longest of the year for Henry Ramos and for the Louisville Bats.

2. Ruben Ibarra – 473 Feet – August 17th

Trackman gave this one an estimate of 473 feet, but I will question that one a bit. Using google maps to double check this one the ball would have had to gone about halfway through the building it landed in front of to get that far. There’s some elevation difference from the plate to where it landed, but yeah. It was crushed, but put an asterisk on this one. Still – I stick with the Trackman distances when we’ve got them.

3. Yerlin Confidan – 451 Feet – August 6th

Unfortunately there’s no video available of this home run because only two teams in the entire Florida State League have video available and Daytona is not one of those teams.

4. Jack Rogers – 449 Feet – August 6th

The apartment building in the outfield beyond Day Air Ballpark has only been up for a few years now, but this is the second closest that I can recall seeing someone coming to hitting it on the fly. Rogers got to it on one bounce and had someone been sitting in the seats out there they’d have gotten a souvenir.

5. Mat Nelson – 448 Feet – August 4th

Much like the home run from Rogers above – not many players clear the awning out there in left-center. Nelson did that and then some in early August with this blast. This homer was the farthest of his 21 that he hit in 2023.

Here’s the list of home runs hit in August and September that went at least 400 feet:

And now with all of that out of the way, here is the final Top 10 of the 2023 Cincinnati Reds Minor League season: