1 Cal Ripken Jr. 431 home runs
It’s difficult to find an offensive stat that Cal Ripken Jr.is not a franchise-record holder of. Games played (3,001), cumulated WAR (95.9), hits (3,184), total bases (5,168), and home runs (431) are just a few of the record-holding numbers for one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball history.
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After Chris Davis, the next closest active Oriole on the all-time home run list is Trey Mancini. Mancini has just three seasons under his belt with 86 home runs during that span. It’s safe to say that Ripken’s record will be around for a very long time.
An All-Star in 19 of his 21 seasons, Ripken had a stretch of 10-straight seasons of 20+ home runs from 1982-1991, capped off by his career-high 34 home run season of ’91. Even in his final season, at age 40, Ripken appeared in 128 games and added 14 round-trippers to his total.
He’s the Iron Man and the reason many of us are Orioles fans today. Will his 431 home runs ever be topped by an Orioles player? Will anyone in baseball break his streak? Both are highly improbable, but not impossible.
Falling just outside of the Top 10 are Manny Machado (162), Melvin Mora (158), Chris Hoiles (151), Gus Triandos (142), and Nick Markakis (141).