Talk:List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders

Barry Bonds, really?
I've gotta say, a picture of Barry sort of tarnishes this whole article right from the get-go. Who put him here and why? Vranak (talk) 04:36, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Because Wikipedia does its best to be unbiased. He has the record, so to not show him would be unusual to say the least. Irrespective of how he achieved the record, he has hit the most home runs in a season of any other MLB player. If MLB stop recognising his records and achievements, then a discussion about how to handle that here on Wikipedia would seem to me to be entirely reasonable.  Afaber012  (talk) 06:34, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Justify it how you will – it still stinks. Vranak (talk) 15:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't. He holds the home run record. The end. Staxringold talkcontribs 01:45, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Pfft. He's a total fraud. You know it, I know it, the whole damn world knows it. Vranak (talk) 05:00, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually I don't know it. As far as I'm concerned, how he got to the point where he achieved what he did is between him and his conscience. It's not up to me, to you, or to anyone else to make a value judgement about whether or not he's done the wrong thing. He has the record. Until and unless that record is taken from him by a recognised authority, the WP discussion really ends there.  Afaber012  (talk) 11:25, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Well I just want to let you guys know that I find it a little unfortunate that Mr. Bonds is the first thing the reader sees upon coming here. I'm sure his misdeeds will come out in the wash eventually, and until then I guess we'll have to perpetuate this sickening farce a while longer. Vranak (talk) 16:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:AL home run champions
Template:AL home run champions has been nominated for deletion. Interested parties are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. As has the similar template for NL home run champions. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 00:42, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

File:Josebautistahomerunchamp.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion
Recommend combining the two lists into one, with an additional field for league to allow sorting in case someone cares about which league. One should be able to manipulate a list of major league home run hitters such that it can show a ranked list regardless of league. Two lists makes that impossible.Ndovu (talk) 01:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Combining league lists
Recommend combining the two lists into one, with an additional field for league to allow sorting in case someone cares about which league. One should be able to manipulate a list of major league home run hitters such that it can show a ranked list regardless of league. Two lists makes that impossible.--Ndovu (talk) 01:39, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It would be more convenient to cram all the information into one table. But unless all four players are listed in the combined table the AL leaders will hardly be mentioned, just glancing at the numbers. It seems a bit unfair to put the leagues side-by-side when the AL has, allegedly, tougher pitching due to use of DH. So this anomaly has to be explained somewhere in a paragraph. And putting in words what can be described in a table takes away the ease of processing the plethora of data within the table.
 * I can appreciate the idea, though, because one table stacked on top of another makes it extraordinarily difficult to compare the two tables. Side-by-side would be better. And until the award is combined into a single award given to the hitter with the most HRs in MLB, I think it makes more sense to list them individually until a better format is found. T. Superhero (@/#) 03:57, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion: Add column of Total Games Played
It seems pretty striking to look at HR leaders from over a century ago, when they played few games relative to the 162 played today, or later when seasons are cut short due to strikes, wars, and worldwide pandemics. It would put the numbers in perspective by adding context to the story when comparing the number of games played in a year/season. I mean, baseball is all about numbers and statistics, so why not normalize the data people see when they read the article? Take it with a pinch of chewing tobacco or ignore it. Just a simple observation from a fan of baseball and Wikipedia. T. Superhero (@/#) 03:21, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Runners up teams
Curious at the omission of the teams for the runners up, surely adding a column for that information won't make the tables excessively wide. Thoughts? It seems to me to be no less relevant than including the teams for which the leaders played. Echoedmyron (talk) 10:54, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Discussion of Bonds/McGwire/Sosa in lead
The lead currently states "Two of the three players to break Maris's record (Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds), did so while having used steroids yet no asterisk was ever assigned to these records. Sammy Sosa was widely suspected of also using steroids, but it was never proven. He was, however, caught corking (modifying his bats by hollowing them out and filling them with cork) his bats which also have him an unfair advantage." For a start, the sole citation for this is a Fox Sports Radio talking head segment. This is a terrible citation. Second, Bonds' use was never proven, as far as I know, it was just similarly *strongly* suspected. And finally, the lengthy discussion of Sosa corking bats feels weird and out of place, like the article *needs* to find a reason to poke holes in each of their figures. This all falls *well* short of WP:NPOV, in my view. I will be rewriting those two sentences now, but welcome constructive comments from others on how best to address this issue. Staxringold talkcontribs 13:07, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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