Giancarlo Stanton hit almost 3 miles of homers in 2014 (Video)

Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins didn’t play after Sept. 11 and still led the National League with 37 home runs.

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Giancarlo Stanton hit a few homers in 2014—like 37 of them.

The Miami Marlins’ All-Star led the National League in homers for the first time in his career despite (a) playing in cavernous Marlins Park for half of his games and (b) not playing after Sept. 11 after getting his face smashed by a pitch from Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Mike Fiers.

A terrific video shows every one of Stanton’s 37 homers with their distance and the cumulative distance, which gets pretty impressive as the number grows.

Stanton hit some mammoth shots. Just 24 years old, the slugger has already hammered 154 career home runs. That is the 10th most home runs for any player in major-league history through the season in which they were 24 on June 30 and the names in front of him are impressive all by themselves:

Rk	Player	HR	From	To	Age	G
1	Eddie Mathews	190	1952	1956	20-24	732
2	Alex Rodriguez	189	1994	2000	18-24	790
3	Mel Ott	176	1926	1933	17-24	983
4	Jimmie Foxx	174	1925	1932	17-24	810
5	Mickey Mantle	173	1951	1956	19-24	808
6	Ken Griffey	172	1989	1994	19-24	845
7	Frank Robinson	165	1956	1960	20-24	735
8	Albert Pujols	160	2001	2004	21-24	629
9	Orlando Cepeda	157	1958	1962	20-24	764
10	Giancarlo Stanton	154	2010	2014	20-24	634
11	Johnny Bench	154	1967	1972	19-24	782
12	Andruw Jones	150	1996	2001	19-24	827
13	Juan Gonzalez	140	1989	1994	19-24	593
14	Hank Aaron	140	1954	1958	20-24	732
15	Miguel Cabrera	138	2003	2007	20-24	720
16	Bob Horner	138	1978	1982	20-24	553
17	Joe DiMaggio	137	1936	1939	21-24	554
18	Hal Trosky	136	1933	1937	20-24	623
19	Boog Powell	130	1961	1966	19-24	686
20	Jose Canseco	128	1985	1989	20-24	568

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In particular, take a look at who is 14th on the list above. So, yeah, Stanton’s career is off to a pretty solid start.

Eddie Mathews finished his career with 512 home runs and is in the Hall of Fame. Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Frank Robinson, Orlando Cepeda—all ahead of Stanton on the list, are also all in the Hall of Fame.

So in the early stages of his career, Giancarlo Stanton’s in good company.

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