Where Drake Baldwin’s mammoth home run ranks against other Atlanta moonshots

When Atlanta Braves star catcher Drake Baldwin returned after spending the last 23 games on the IL, he loudly announced his return by smacking a home run that traveled over 470 feet. This was not only his longest career home run, but the longest home run of the 2026 MLB season period.

Given that Baldwin's blast ranks as the longest homer so far this year, we figured we should see where it ranked among the longest homers in Braves Statcast history, dating back to 2015.

Where does Drake Baldwin's 473-foot home run rank among the longest homers in Braves history

Unsurprisingly, there are only a handful of home runs hit by Braves players that could rival Baldwin's homer on Monday evening. Since 2015, there have only been eight other homers hit at least 473 feet.

Baldwin's blast is tied for the seventh-longest Braves homer, along with two of his current teammates. Ronald Acuña Jr. hit one that traveled the same distance as back in 2020, launching a 97.3 MPH fastball off of Gerrit Cole 473 feet. Three years later, Austin Riley launched a ball off of Jake Woodford the same distance in St. Louis.

Travis d'Arnaud upped both of his 2021 World Series champion teammates in 2023 when he hit a 474-foot bomb off of Rockies pitcher Dinelson Lamet. Despite being off of a Rockies pitcher, d'Arnaud actually hit his moonshot in Atlanta. This also happened to be his 100th career home run.

Unfortunately, d'Arnaud wasn't able to quite make the top-five longest Braves homers list. In 2021, the Braves hit four of their five longest home runs in the Statcast era. Adam Duvall hit two of these, both of them being hit in September. The fifth-longest Braves homer came on September 2, when Duvall crushed a 477-foot bomb in Colorado. Less than three weeks later, he'd hit a ball 483 feet in Arizona.

In late April 2021, both Marcell Ozuna and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit tape measure shots against the Cubs in Atlanta. Ozuna hit the fourth-longest Braves homer at 479 feet, just two days after Acuña hit a ball 481 feet.

Of course, none of these homers came close to the Braves record, set by Acuña in 2020. Against the Red Sox in late September came to the plate against Chris Mazza. The then-22-year-old hammered the ball at 112.9 MPH off the bat. The cameraman struggled to track the ball, but eagle-eyed fans could catch Acuña's 495-foot tank landing three sections away from the concourse in center field.

This home run by Acuña not only ranks as the longest in Braves history, but tied for eighth in the Statcast era.

Although Baldwin's blast didn't quite reach the same heights as Ronald Acuña's, there's no doubt it's one of the more impressive homers we've seen in recent memory, and yet another reason why he'll likely start this year's All-Star Game.

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