ryan braun hit the most home runs in 2012.
who hit the most home runs in 2012?
ryan braun
braun was second all-time, with 79 home runs over his first two calendar years in the major leagues, to phillies hall of famer chuck klein (83); ahead of third-place joe dimaggio and mark mcgwire (77). if braun continues to hit home runs at the rate he had hit them through july 1, 2009, he will reach 600 home runs in his 15th major league season. in september, braun became the second-fastest active player to hit 100 home runs (behind only ryan howard), as he hit his 100th homer in his 400th major league game. later in the month, he became the second player in major league history to hit 30 or more home runs in each of his first three seasons. braun's 103 home runs in his first three major league seasons are sixth-most in baseball history, behind pujols (114), mark teixeira (107), and three hall of famers—kiner (114), matthews (112), and joe dimaggio (107).
ryan braun
he joined the independent ranks in 2006 and hit .332/.410/.647 with 21 home runs and 65 rbi in 74 games for the fargo-moorhead redhawks. he led the northern league in home runs, slugging and ops (1.057). on june 18, he became one of the few players to hit four home runs in a single game, the first independent ballplayer to do so since ryan jones in 2000. no indy leaguer has done it since. he also hit five home runs with nine rbi for the triple-a iowa cubs in the chicago cubs system to bring his season totals to 26 home runs and 74 rbi. with the 2007 bridgeport bluefish, hoorelbeke hit .313/.396/.586 with 33 home runs and 94 rbi. he paced the atlantic league in home runs for his second-straight homer title. he also played for the caneros de los mochis of the mexican pacific winter league that year. in 2008, hoorelbeke hit .276/.362/.505 with 28 home runs and 106 rbi for bridgeport. he also played briefly for the arkansas travelers of the los angeles angels system. he tied pat osborn for the league lead in rbi. in 2009, hoorelbeke hit .293/.391/.517 with 23 home runs and 88 rbi in 120 games for bridgeport. he played for the fargo-moorhead again in 2010 and hit 29 home runs and 75 rbi. back with fargo-moorhead in 2011, he hit 15 home runs and had 75 rbi. that year, he set the career record for independent league home runs, breaking jorge alvarez's mark. with the somerset patriots in 2012, he had 20 home runs and 53 rbi.
jesse hoorelbeke