The top five homers of April, with a very unlikely hitter at No. 1

For a few years now, at the start of each month of the baseball season, we’ve compiled a list of the longest homers of the previous month. If you like to watch baseballs fly out of stadiums, it’s a lot of fun.

Never in that time, however, have we had a more unlikely player at No. 1 on the list than we did for April. He’s a man who hit just three homers last season. And whose career total of 25 is what league-leader Nolan Arenado should have by the All-Star break. Yet our dude at No. 1 hit his homer — yes, it’s the only one he’s hit this season — 466 feet, according to MLB Advanced Media’s Statcast tracking system. That’s better than even Giancarlo Stanton’s monster blast in Milwaukee the other day.

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Take a bow, Jordy Mercer, for you are the MLB Home Run Titan of April. If this were an award show, Mercer, the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop, wouldn’t have a speech prepared. It’s that kind of unlikely win.

Here’s Mercer and the rest of the top five:

(AP)

1. Jordy Mercer, April 22, 466.05 feet: Did we mention he only hit three homers last year? Good. Because he only hit three homers last year.

2. Giancarlo Stanton, April 30, 462.30 feet: Second place for April, but something tells us, he’ll be No. 1 on the list before the season ends.

3. Nolan Arenado, April 10, 462.16 feet: He hit 10 homers in April and one so far in May. That’s pretty good.

4. Carlos Correa, April 6, 461.56 feet: Correa announced his presence in NYC with this bomb at Yankee Stadium in his second game of the season.

5. Colby Rasmus, April 9, 461.53 feet: Did you know his Twitter handle is @MrColbyJack? That’s fantastic and underrated on the list of best MLB Twitter names. Especially when he goes 461.

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