40-HR 200-Hit Players

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October 19, 2024

Through 2024, 37 players have had both a 200-hit season and a 40-homer season in their career (not necessarily the same season). Source

  1. Henry Aaron
  2. Ronald Acuña Jr.
  3. Dick Allen
  4. Albert Belle
  5. Adrián Beltré
  6. Dante Bichette
  7. Ryan Braun
  8. Ellis Burks
  9. Miguel Cabrera
  10. Vinny Castilla
  11. Joe DiMaggio
  12. Jimmie Foxx
  13. Lou Gehrig
  14. Luis Gonzalez
  15. Adrián González
  16. Hank Greenberg
  17. Vladimir Guerrero
  18. Todd Helton
  19. Rogers Hornsby
  20. Chuck Klein
  21. Willie Mays
  22. Johnny Mize
  23. Rafael Palmeiro
  24. Mike Piazza
  25. Albert Pujols
  26. Jim Rice
  27. Frank Robinson
  28. Álex Rodríguez
  29. Al Rosen
  30. Babe Ruth
  31. Ryne Sandberg
  32. Alfonso Soriano
  33. Hal Trosky
  34. Mo Vaughn
  35. Larry Walker
  36. Billy Williams
  37. Hack Wilson

Of those 37 players, 25 have hit 40 homers and 200 hits in the same season at least once.

The players who’ve done it more than once:

Thoughts

200 hits in a season is a really difficult and somewhat arbitrary milestone to reach. You have to play every day. You have to be an exceptional hitter. But you can’t walk too much as this will eat into your hits.

The list of 37 is littered with Hall of Famers, as you would expect. Two names I was a little surprised to see are Dante Bichette and Ellis Burks.

Dante Bichette

Looking at Dante Bichette’s career page, at first glance I thought there was a mistake. 1,906 hits, .299 career average, .835 career OPS but … 5.7 career WAR? Looking closer, he was a heck of a hitter but an unmitigated liability in the outfield. He had a career defensive WAR of -16.2 wiping out most of the value he brought as a hitter.

Ellis Burks

Ellis Burks had a very nice career. 18 season, 2000 games played. He was a slightly below average fielder but not really costing you runs and wins the same way as Bichette. 2109 hits, 352 HR, 1209 RBI, .874 OPS. His 1996 season in Colorado at age 31 was his career year. He was neutral (+0.6 dWAR) on defense. At the plate he had 685 PA in 156 games. 211 hits, 40 HR, 128 RBI, 1.047 OPS. He led the NL in runs scored (142), slug (.639), and total bases (392). He earned an All Star nod, Silver Slugger award, and finished third in NL MVP voting.

Note: research above done on baseball-reference.com and stathead.com/baseball.

Players: [Ellis Burks, Dante Bichette]

Updated At: 2025-07-17 14:18 +0000 (55e5b5d)