Bay Area Home Run Leaders

It's the baseball offseason.  I'm a retired student between semesters (still hoping to pull a Favre at some point).  Consequently, I have some free time.  Hence this post.

Here are the top 50 career home run totals for players as a San Francisco Giant, Oakland Athletic, or both.  So the homers Mays hit as a New York Giant don't count, nor do all the home runs Dale Murphy hit at Candlestick.  I was definitely surprised at some of the players who made the list, and how high or low certain players ranked (Jim Ray Hart hit more homers as a Giant than Kevin Mitchell did?  Really?).  Feel free to share this list.  These stats are through the 2011 season.

1. Barry Bonds            586
2. Willie McCovey      469
3. Willie Mays             459
4. Mark McGwire       363
5. Reggie Jackson       268                              
6. Jose Canseco           254
7. Matt Williams          247
8. Eric Chavez             230
9. Orlando Cepeda      226
10. Jason Giambi          198
11. Sal Bando               192
12. Bobby Bonds          186
13. Dave Kingman       177
14. Will The Thrill        176
15. Jeff Kent                 175
16. Rickey Henderson   167
17. Jack Clark               163                            
18. Miguel Tejada         160
19. Jim Ray Hart           157
20. Dwayne Murphy     153
21. Kevin Mitchell        145
22. Rich Aurilia             143
23. Darrell Evans          142
24. Terry Steinbach       132
25. J. T. Snow              124
26. Matt Stairs               122
27. Gene Tenace          121
28. Robby Thompson  119
29. Joe Rudi                 116
30. Tony Armas           111
31. Tom Haller            107
32. Dave Henderson   104
33. Chili Davis            101
34. Jeffrey Leonard      99
35. Jack Cust                94
36. Carney Lansford    94
37. Felipe Alou            93
38. Bob Brenly            90
39. Wayne Gross         88
40. Geronimo Berroa   87
41. Mark Ellis              86
42. Mike Davis            84
43. Ray Durham          83
44. Nick Swisher         80
45. Jim Davenport       77
46. Scott Brosius         76
47. Ben Grieve            76
48. Chris Speier           70
49. Jermaine Dye         64
50. Gary Matthews      64

Notables who played for both teams (in order of Bay Area HR total):

Willie McCovey           SF: 469, Oak: 0
Orlando Cepeda         SF: 226, Oak: 0
Dave Kingman            SF: 77, Oak: 100, Tot: 177
Miguel Tejada        SF: 4 (yes, 4), Oak: 156, Tot: 160
Kevin Mitchell             SF: 143, Oak: 2, Tot: 145
Dave Henderson        Oak: 104, SF: 0,
Felipe Alou                SF: 85, Oak: 8, Tot: 93
Ray Durham               SF: 77, Oak: 6, Tot: 83
Gary Thomasson        SF: 38, Oak: 5, Tot: 43
Stan Javier                 SF: 17, Oak: 23, Tot: 40
Mike Aldrete              SF: 14, Oak: 18, Tot: 32
Joe Morgan                SF: 22, Oak: 6, Tot: 28
Ernie Riles                  SF: 18, Oak: 5, Tot: 23
Jesus Alou                  SF: 18, Oak: 3, Tot: 21
Dusty Baker                SF: 3, Oak: 18, Tot: 21
Matty Alou                  SF: 12, Oak: 1, Tot: 13

Just a few observations:

• Giving Kingman to Oakland, there are 26 Athletics and 24 Giants, but each team has 5 in the top 10.
• Eric Chavez never, ever would have crossed my mind as a possible top 10.
• I'm pleasantly surprised to see The Thrill one spot ahead of Jeff Kent.
• Rickey Henderson ahead of so many guys we think of as "sluggers" is just one more reminder of how awesome he was.
• Dwayne Murphy at #20 made me smile more than any other surprise on the list.
• Mitchell and Aurilia both had 143 homers as Giants, but Kevin hit 2 for Oakland in 1998, his last season in the big leagues.  Not counted are the 7 homers Mitchell hit for the Sonoma County Crushers in 2000.
• Do you think even Orlando Cepeda remembers he had 3 AB's (0-for-3) with Oakland in 1972?

Did I make any mistakes?  Let me know!  Raw data from the glorious baseball-reference.com.