Youngest Players To Hit 50 Homers
Who was the youngest player to hit 50 home runs?
Mel Ott is the youngest player to hit 50 home runs, accomplishing it at the age of 20 years and 166 days old. He hit his 50th home run on Aug 15, 1929.
Which active player is on pace to next make the Top 50 list for "Youngest To 50 Homers"?
Based on their career production, the active player most likely to next make the "Youngest to 50 Homers" leaderboard is Jackson Chourio, who is currently 22 years and 56 days old with 42 HR.
Note: Some players on this leaderboard might show up as having 51 or 52 home runs, which means they hit multiple HRs in the game in which they crossed the milestone. In order to normalize the modern statistics and the historic ones (for which there is no play-by-play data), all the stats shown here are based on per-game statistics. Meaning that the at-bat total might not be the exact at-bat in which the player reached the milestone, only the number of ABs and PAs they had at the conclusion of the game in which they reached the milestone.