While reviewing the longest White Sox home runs of the season is typically a staple of Sox Machine's October programming, we skipped it last year because the number of homers (133) by the 2024 White Sox was just a little too close to their number of losses (121).
To quickly replace the missing link, here's the 2024 leaderboard.
- Luis Robert Jr., 470 feet on June 29
- Luis Robert Jr., 449 feet on March 30
- Luis Robert Jr., 448 feet on June 4
- Tommy Pham, 441 feet on July 22
- Korey Lee, 436 feet on May 20
You may remember the 470-foot homer inspiring John Schriffen's infamous La Pantera growl, and an entire post about the White Sox's longest homers of a cursed summer would've struck an equally dissonant tone.
In 2025, the White Sox hit 165 homers while losing only 102 games, which is a healthier spread. It also helped that the team's biggest second-half story altered the distance leaderboard, giving this feature a needed narrative propulsion. It's not enough to say the White Sox are back, but at least this post has returned.
Before we recite the longest White Sox home runs of 2025, here's a quick review of the other extreme wallops.
Shortest home run: Kyle Teel, 336 feet on June 23
Teel's first homer came 98 plate appearances and 28 games into his career, and Statcast said Steinbrenner Field was the only park that wouldn't have been able to hold it. Even if it's an A-ball field masquerading as a major league stadium, it all counts the same. As Hawk Harrelson used to say, "Don't tell you what you hit, tell me where you hit it."
Highest home run: Miguel Vargas, 44 degrees on May 27
Vargas turned an up-and-in Tylor Megill fastball into an up-and-out homer that landed squarely in the first row behind the left field wall. Statcast said it would've cleared the fence in 20 of 30 parks, including Rate Field, so there.
Lowest home run: Andrew Vaughn, 19 degrees on March 31
Vaughn held this title when we last reviewed the most extreme homers in 2023, and he wasted no time securing his spot on this list with this laser that left Rate Field four games into the season. It only would've cleared the left-field wall in nine other parks per Statcast.
Slowest home run: Miguel Vargas, 94.6 mph on May 1
Vargas kept his hands back on a Craig Yoho changeup, and an 18-mph wind carried it over the left field wall for a game-breaking three-run homer, rather than a reasonably deep flyout to preserve a 1-0 margin.
You may have noticed that we didn't touch on the hardest-hit homer of the year. We'll get to it shortly.
No. 5: Luis Robert Jr.
Date: June 20 | Distance: 441 feet | Exit velocity: 114.2 mph | Launch angle: 28 degrees
Robert owned the top spot in both 2022 and 2024 and finished runner-up to Jake Burger in between, but thanks to the arrival of a new power king in town, he couldn't place any higher than fifth. At the time he launched this second-deck dinger against Mason Fluharty, it was the fastest White Sox homer by nearly three ticks. It didn't last, and neither did Robert, whose 2023 looks increasingly like an outlier when you read his home run totals in chronological order: 11, 13, 12, 38, 14, 14.
No. 4: Lenyn Sosa
Date: Sept. 7 | Distance: 451 feet | Exit velocity: 109.8 mph | Launch angle: 27 degrees
Your team leader in homers with 21, Sosa's emerging power was evident in both quantity and quality. Six homers traveled at least 420 feet, when his longest of 2024 topped out at 406. Sosa's penultimate clout of 2025 is his longest to date, as it reached the second row of shrubbery behind Comerica Park's center field.
No. 3: Colson Montgomery
Date: Aug. 10 | Distance: 452 feet | Exit velocity: 114.5 mph | Launch angle: 27 degrees
Here's that fastest White Sox home run of the season, a missile that showed how much Rate Field's right field misses the fiberglass goose with regards to visual drama.
No. 2: Colson Montgomery
Date: Sept. 4 | Distance: 454 feet | Exit velocity: 111.6 mph | Launch angle: 31 degrees
While all of the other video clips cut right to the homer, this one opens with Montgomery's first swing of his at-bat against Noah Davis, because when you watched the way this at-bat started, you'd never guess the way it finished, with Montgomery sending a greeting to the lone fan seated high up in Target Field's second deck.
No. 1: Michael A. Taylor
Date: July 5 | Distance: 464 feet | Exit velocity: 108.7 mph | Launch angle: 25 degrees
If you're surprised, you're not alone. Taylor's homer didn't stand out as especially monstrous for two reasons. Its distance benefited from the Coors Field multiplier, and its aesthetic effect suffered from Coors Field's design. Brenton Doyle chased it all the way back to the warning track because it wasn't immediately apparent the ball would clear the 16-foot-6-inch wall until it landed in the mitt of White Sox bullpen catcher Luis Sierra.
A further investigation into Taylor's career suggests we should've seen it coming. This ended up being the third-longest homer of Taylor's now-completed career, and the third-longest homer Taylor hit at Coors Field. He reached the concourse behind left field with this 468-footer with the Twins in 2023, but both paled in comparison the 493-foot homer he launched in his first full season back in 2015, which landed in the back half of the bleachers, but again bounded onto the concourse with one giant hop.
In 22 games at Coors Field, Taylor hit .293/.397/.621. His 1.018 OPS there bested the next-closest park by 100 points, regardless of the sample. What would a season look like if he played half of his games there? Answering that question is probably not enough to lure him out of retirement.
