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Every MLB Team's Career Postseason Home Run Leader

Joel Reuter

Not every MLB team has the same rich postseason history, but all 30 fanbases have enjoyed at least a few memorable October moments.

Over the course of MLB history, only five players have hit at least 20 home runs in the playoffs—Manny Ramirez (29), Jose Altuve (27), Bernie Williams (22), Kyle Schwarber (21) and Derek Jeter (20).

The playoff format has expanded over the years, which means more opportunities for postseason production, so many of the names on the all-time leaderboard are standouts from the last 30 years.

Ahead, we have highlighted every MLB franchise's career playoff home run leader, while providing a rundown of their most memorable series and moments.

Who sits atop the leaderboard for your favorite team?

AL East

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Baltimore Orioles: OF Frank Robinson

HR Total: 9

In his first season with the Orioles after coming over in a trade with the Cincinnati Reds prior to the 1966 season, Robinson won AL MVP honors and then took home World Series MVP when he went 4-for-14 with two home runs in a four-game sweep of the Dodgers. He had an .887 OPS and 10 home runs in 35 career playoff games, and only one of those long balls came prior to his trade to Baltimore.

Boston Red Sox: DH David Ortiz

HR Total: 17

One of the most prolific postseason performers in MLB history, Ortiz laid the foundation of his career legacy when he went 12-for-31 with three home runs and 11 RBI against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS to help the Red Sox come back from down 3-0 in the best-of-seven series. He also won 2013 World Series MVP by going 11-for-16 with two home runs and six RBI against the Cardinals.

New York Yankees: OF Bernie Williams

HR Total: 22

Williams was one of the offensive centerpieces of four World Series winners, and his 22 career playoff home runs trail only Manny Ramirez (29) and Jose Altuve (27) on the all-time leaderboard. All told, he hit .275/.371/.480 with 29 doubles, 22 home runs and 80 RBI in 121 postseason games during a 16-year career spent entirely in a Yankees uniform.

Tampa Bay Rays: OF Randy Arozarena

HR Total: 11

Arozarena hit 10 of his 11 playoff home runs during the 2020 postseason, setting the record for most long balls in a single playoff run. He had just 76 plate appearances during the abridged regular season that year, and actually took home AL Rookie of the Year honors the following season after becoming a household name during Tampa Bay's unlikely run to the 2020 World Series.

Toronto Blue Jays: OF José Bautista and OF Joe Carter

HR Total: 6

José Bautista and Joe Carter are not only tied atop the Blue Jays leaderboard, but they also own two of the most memorable home runs in postseason history. Bautista delivered a bat flip for the ages in Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS against the Rangers, while Carter hit a walk-off, series-clinching home run in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series off Phillies closer Mitch Williams.

AL Central

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Chicago White Sox: 1B Paul Konerko

HR Total: 7

Konerko's grand slam in Game 2 of the 2005 World Series stands as arguably the most memorable home run in White Sox franchise history. It gave the South Siders a 6-4 lead and swung the momentum in a series that ended up being a four-game sweep of the Astros. Konerko quietly hit 432 home runs over 16 seasons in a White Sox uniform.

Cleveland Guardians: 1B/3B Jim Thome

HR Total: 17

When he made his postseason debut in 1995, Thome was a 24-year-old third baseman and a complementary part of a stacked offense led by Albert Belle, Manny Ramirez, Kenny Lofton, Carlos Baerga and Eddie Murray. He had four home runs each in the 1998 ALCS and 1999 ALDS, and all 17 of his playoff homers came during a seven-year stretch in Cleveland.

Detroit Tigers: 1B/3B Miguel Cabrera

HR Total: 9

Cabrera burst onto the national scene as a 20-year-old rookie with the Marlins in 2003, but he spent the bulk of his career in Detroit. His best postseason performance came in a 2011 ALCS loss to the Rangers when he went 8-for-20 with four doubles, three home runs and seven RBI in six games. Delmon Young is second on the franchise list with eight home runs in only 88 plate appearances.

Kansas City Royals: 3B George Brett

HR Total: 10

The Royals lost to the Yankees in the ALCS in 1976, 1977 and 1978, which made it that much sweeter when Brett delivered the game-winning, three-run home runs off Hall of Fame closer Goose Gossage in the seventh inning of Game 3 of the 1980 ALCS to send the Yankees packing and advance to the World Series. Brett also had three home runs each in the 1978 ALCS and 1985 ALCS.

Minnesota Twins: OF Goose Goslin

HR Total: 7

A Hall of Fame outfielder who spent the first nine and a half seasons of his career with the Washington Nationals, Goslin went 11-for-32 with three home runs in the 1924 World Series to win a ring before homering three more times in the Fall Classic the following year. The record since the franchise moved to Minnesota belongs to Kirby Puckett, who had five playoff home runs in his career.

AL West

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Houston Astros: 2B Jose Altuve

HR Total: 27

Altuve's 27 career playoff home runs during his time with the Astros are the most ever by a player with one single franchise and second all-time to Manny Ramirez, who hit 29 with three different teams. He has hit multiple home runs in 10 different playoff series, including last year's ALCS against the Rangers when he went 10-for-32 with three long balls.

Los Angeles Angels: 3B Troy Glaus

HR Total: 9

Glaus won 2002 World Series MVP honors when he led an upstart Angels team to a title over Barry Bonds and the Giants, going 10-for-26 with three doubles, three home runs and eight RBI in the seven-game series. All told, he hit .344/.420/.770 with seven home runs and 13 RBI in 16 games during the club's 2002 playoff run, including a two-homer game in Game 1 of the World Series.

Oakland Athletics: OF José Canseco

HR Total: 7

Canseco was one of the offensive stars of an Oakland team that reached three straight World Series in 1988, 1989 and 1990, and all of his postseason production with the organization came during that three-year stretch. He had one home run in each World Series matchup, while his best performance came in the 1988 ALCS when he went 5-for-16 with three home runs in four games.

Seattle Mariners: OF Jay Buhner and DH Edgar Martínez

HR Total: 8

Buhner had a huge 1995 postseason for the Mariners, going 18-for-47 with four home runs in 11 games while logging five multi-hit performances. Martínez is best remembered for "The Double" in Game 5 of the 1995 ALDS, and he went 12-for-21 with three doubles, two home runs and 10 RBI overall in that five-game series. He also hit two homers each in the 2000 and 2001 postseasons at the end of his Hall of Fame career.

Texas Rangers: OF Nelson Cruz

HR Total: 14

Cruz had one of the best single postseason series in MLB history during the 2011 ALCS against the Tigers when he went 8-for-22 with six home runs and 13 RBI in six games to lead the Rangers to the World Series. He hit two more homers in the World Series that year, and that came on the heels of a six-homer postseason the previous year when the Rangers also reached the Fall Classic.

NL East

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Atlanta Braves: 3B Chipper Jones

HR Total: 13

In his first full season in the majors in 1995, Jones won a World Series ring while slugging two home runs in the NLDS and one in the NLCS in his age-23 season. His 13 playoff homer runs came over a staggering 93 career playoff games, and he hit .287/.409/.456 in 417 plate appearances in the postseason.

Miami Marlins: 3B/OF Miguel Cabrera

HR Total: 4

Cabrera made his MLB debut shortly after his 20th birthday on June 20, 2003, and by the time the playoffs arrived he was hitting cleanup on a Marlins team headed for an unlikely World Series title. He hit three home runs in the NLCS that year and another in the World Series, and that was enough to make him the franchise's all-time leader.

New York Mets: 2B Daniel Murphy

HR Total: 7

Murphy led the Mets to the 2015 World Series with stellar performances in the NLDS (7-for-21, 3 HR) and NLDS (9-for-17, 4 HR), homering in six straight games, including all four in the NLCS against the Cubs. Pete Alonso (4 HR) and Francisco Lindor (3 HR) could both make a play for the organization's top spot if the Mets can advance to the World Series this year.

Philadelphia Phillies: 1B/OF Bryce Harper and OF/DH Kyle Schwarber

HR Total: 12

Harper and Schwarber both hold a share of the franchise lead for another organization on top of the 12 home runs they have hit in a Phillies uniform. Both players have racked up their 12 homers during the 2022, 2023 and 2024 postseasons, with Schwarber putting together the most impressive single performance with five homers during the 2023 NLCS against the Diamondbacks.

Washington Nationals: OF Bryce Harper, 3B Anthony Rendon, OF Juan Soto and 1B Ryan Zimmerman

HR Total: 5

Soto hit all five of his playoff home runs in a Nationals uniform during the club's run to the 2019 World Series, and he didn't turn 21 until Oct. 25 that year. Zimmerman and Rendon were both part of playoff teams prior to the World Series run, while Harper hit all five of his long balls before departing in free agency following the 2018 season. His first playoff home run came in Game 5 of the 2012 NLDS, four days before his 20th birthday.

NL Central

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Chicago Cubs: 3B Kris Bryant, 1B Anthony Rizzo and OF Kyle Schwarber

HR Total: 6

Bryant, Rizzo and Schwarber were all teammates on the Cubs squads that reached the postseason in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020, winning a World Series title in 2016. Just behind that trio on the franchise leaderboard is Javier Báez and Dexter Fowler, who were also part of that same run of success.

Cincinnati Reds: C Johnny Bench

HR Total: 10

Despite playing at a time when the LCS and World Series was the extent of the playoff format, Bench still sits atop the Reds leaderboard from his time as one of the offensive leaders of the Big Red Machine. He played in 10 career postseason series and hit at least one home run in nine of them, including five homers in 94 plate appearances in the World Series.

Milwaukee Brewers: SS Orlando Arcia and 1B Prince Fielder

HR Total: 4

Prior to making the postseason six times in the past seven years, the Brewers had only made four trips to the playoffs in their first 49 years as a franchise, so it's not surprising that the leaderboard is relatively sparse. Rookie Jackson Chourio homered twice in Game 2 of this year's Wild Card Series, and it might be only a matter of time before he finds himself atop this list.

Pittsburgh Pirates: 1B/OF Willie Stargell

HR Total: 7

At 39 years old, Stargell won 1979 NLCS and World Series MVP honors for a Pirates team that endeared itself to the baseball world while making the song "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge its rally cry. He hit a combined .415/.435/.927 with five home runs and 13 RBI in 10 games during the playoffs that year.

St. Louis Cardinals: 1B Albert Pujols

HR Total: 18

Pujols won World Series titles in 2006 and 2011, and he played in 74 total playoff games during his time with the Cardinals, hitting .330/.439/.607 with 18 doubles, 18 home runs and 52 RBI in 321 plate appearances in his postseason career in St. Louis. He is one of four players in MLB history to have a three-homer game in the World Series, accomplishing the feat in Game 3 of the 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers.

NL West

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Arizona Diamondbacks: OF Chris Young

HR Total: 5

Young had a productive seven-year run with the D-backs from 2006 through 2012, posting three 20/20 seasons and earning an All-Star selection during that time. He hit two home runs in the 2007 NLDS against the Cubs and three in the 2011 NLDS against the Brewers, and that's enough for him to sit atop the franchise leaderboard.

Colorado Rockies: OF Matt Holliday

HR Total: 5

Holliday played in just one postseason as a member of the Rockies, but he made the most of it, hitting .289/.319/.622 with five home runs and 10 RBI in 11 games during Colorado's run to the only NL pennant in franchise history. In 66 more playoff games the remainder of his career, he had eight home runs in 267 plate appearances.

Los Angeles Dodgers: SS Corey Seager and 3B Justin Turner

HR Total: 13

Seager did the bulk of his postseason damage during the 2020 playoffs when he won NLCS and World Series MVP honors, hitting a combined .347/.439/.816 with seven home runs and 16 RBI in 13 games. Meanwhile, Turner played in 19 different playoff series during his time with the Dodgers, and he had at least one home run in 10 of those series.

San Diego Padres: 3B Manny Machado

HR Total: 7

Machado has 11 career playoff home runs, including one with the Orioles and three with the Dodgers, but the bulk of his postseason damage has come since he joined the Padres in free agency. He has at least one home run in six of his seven playoff series in San Diego, and with his 11-year, $350 million deal running through 2033, he has plenty of time to pad his franchise lead.

San Francisco Giants: OF Barry Bonds

HR Total: 8

Bonds only played 28 playoff games in 15 seasons with the Giants, and all eight of his postseason home runs came in 2002 when the team reached the World Series against the Angels. He hit .356/.581/.978 with 16 hits, 27 walks, eight home runs and 16 RBI in 17 games that October, and he hit home runs in Game 1, Game 2, Game 3 and Game 6 of the World Series.

   

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