A look at the 10 longest home runs of 2023

Here we are again, at the end of another year. Baseball has its World Series champion and all the major awards have been handed out, so there's one last thing on the docket for this year.

That's right -- it's finally time to go through the longest home runs of the 2023 Major League Baseball season.

But first, a few notes on this year's entries:

• A collective 5,862 home runs were hit in the 2023 regular season and another 110 in the postseason. The average distance of all 5,972 was a neat 400 feet; the average of the 10 on this list is 480.
• No player appears on this year's list twice, and we have seven newcomers who didn't make the cut in 2022. Three teams -- the Rockies (of course), Braves and Angels each boast two entries.
• Despite our general perception that moonshots are easier to come by in warm weather, five of the 10 homers on the list were hit in April (several in the Northeast and Midwest).
• This list, compared to those from previous years, is pretty light on Coors Field action. Just three of the 10 longest home runs of 2023 were hit in Denver, and while Coors will always hold a special place in our hearts here, no ballpark treated the homer-obsessed fan better than Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú in Mexico City. While the average Coors Field home run (of which there were 208) traveled 421 feet in 2023, the 14 home runs hit over one weekend in Mexico City traveled an average distance of 432 feet.

So, with the last hours of 2023 ticking away, let's look back at the longest home runs of this past Major League Baseball season.

1. Shohei Ohtani, Angels: 493 feet
June 30 vs. D-backs
There's nothing he can't do. The American League's reigning MVP and recipient of what is estimated to be the largest contract ever signed by a professional athlete also had the longest home run of 2023, which he hit in Arizona off D-backs lefty Tommy Henry. You heard that right -- the longest homer of the year was born of a lefty-on-lefty matchup. And, just for old time's sake, let's close out the narrative for this game: Ohtani, in hitting his 493-footer, banked his club's only RBI of the night and the Angels lost, 6-2.

2. Giancarlo Stanton, Yankees: 485 feet
April 2 vs. Giants
The first chronologically lands a close second on the leaderboard. The hardest-hit home run on this list with an exit velocity of 117.8 mph, Stanton hit his 485-footer in the third game of the season off Giants righty Ross Stripling, whose opinion of expanded Interleague Play probably took a brief hit.

3. (tie) Nolan Jones, Rockies: 483 feet
June 7 vs. Giants
You knew we'd get to Denver sooner than later. Jones was the Rockies' breakout star in 2023, ending the year hitting .297 with 20 home runs and a 138 OPS+, earning a fourth-place finish in NL Rookie of the Year voting. So it's only fitting that the longest Coors homer of the year, this 114.2 mph, 483-foot moonshot off Giants ace Logan Webb, would belong to him.

3. (tie) Kyle Schwarber, Phillies: 483 feet
Sept. 18 at Braves
Schwarber nearly missed his chance to make the list this past season, but his 45th of 52 total homers between the regular and postseason, this 113.9 mph, 483-foot shot off then-Braves reliever Michael Tonkin, tied for the third-longest in 2023.

5. Jarred Kelenic, Mariners: 482 feet
April 12 at Cubs
While 2023 would turn out to be Kelenic's final season in Seattle, he did leave Mariners fans with something to remember him by in the form of the longest home run of his young career, hit off Julian Merryweather in April.

6. C.J. Cron, Rockies: 479 feet
April 11 vs. Cardinals
Cron had two of the 11 longest homers of 2022, but he'll have to settle for just the one this year. His 2023 entry was this 109.3 mph, 479-foot blast against Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas.

7. (tie) Travis d'Arnaud, Braves: 474 feet
June 16 vs. Rockies
d'Arnaud only hit 11 home runs in 2023, but we're worried about quality rather than quantity here. His entry, ironically enough on this Coors-light (sorry, we had to) list, was hit as part of a two-homer game against the Rockies in Atlanta.

7. (tie) LaMonte Wade Jr., Giants: 474 feet
April 29 at Padres (at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú)
Denver sits over 5,000 feet above sea level. Mexico City, which hosted the 2023 leg of the MLB World Tour, is situated above 7,000. In the brief weekend series played at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú back in April -- the first regular-season Major League Baseball games ever played in Mexico City -- the Giants and Padres combined to hit 14 home runs in two days. Although the Giants ended on the losing end of a wild 16-11 score in Game 1, Wade's shot off Joe Musgrove was the best of the best at an estimated distance of 474 feet.

9. (tie) Ryan McMahon, Rockies: 473 feet
Aug. 28 vs. Braves
McMahon sneaks into the Top 10 for the second year in a row with this shot off Atlanta's Bryce Elder -- if we can call a 473-foot home run in any way stealthy.

9. (tie) Austin Riley, Braves: 473 feet
April 3 at Cardinals
The 2023 Braves hit more home runs than any team before them, so it's appropriate that we should close out the list with them. Riley's first of his 37 homers was his longest, a 473-footer off Cardinals right-hander Jake Woodford.