Watch Jac Caglianone’s record-setting home run over the batter’s eye at The K
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- Jac Caglianone hit a 466-foot home run, setting a Royals rookie distance record.
- The ball left Caglianone’s bat at 110.8 mph and cleared the center field batter’s eye.
- Wednesday’s homer marked Caglianone’s fourth since joining the Royals from Omaha.
Before being called up by the Royals last month, outfielder Jac Caglianone’s prodigious feats of strength wowed baseball fans.
Caglianone’s monster home runs at Double-A and Triple-A even caught the attention of Major League Baseball’s social media team. And they had Royals fans dreaming of Caglianone mashing balls into the fountains at Kauffman Stadium.
But like so many players before him, Caglianone struggled in the early going as a rookie and didn’t hit his first home run at The K until Tuesday night. It was a 421-foot bomb, which is impressive.
However, it was merely prelude to Wednesday night.
Caglianone obliterated a baseball in the fourth inning: The blast traveled an estimated 466 feet. According to MLB stats guru Sarah Langs, that’s the longest home run by a Royals rookie in the Statcast Era, which dates to 2015.
Do stats like that mean anything extra to Caglianone?
“I think they’re pretty cool,” he said with a slight smile.
The ball was smoked at 110.8 mph off Caglianone’s bat and landed over the batter’s eye in center field.
Pirates starter Bailey Falter had tried to beat him with a sinker. Instead, this happened:
Caglianone saw where the ball landed.
“I try not to watch,” he said, “but I did on that one.”
It was the longest home run of the season by a Royals player and Caglianone’s fourth of the season since being called up from Triple-A Omaha.
Ian Kraft, the Royals’ assistant director of media relations, said it was the 10th-longest home run hit in the majors this season, and the 10th-farthest hit at Kauffman since 2015.
Brandon Moss hit the longest home run by a Royals player in that span (474 feet in 2017). Jonathan Schoop’s 484-foot bomb in 2015 is the longest at The K in the Statcast Era.
Angels star Mike Trout smashed a home run in 2014 that was measured at the time at 489 feet, but that was before Statcast.
Caglianone’s homer tied for the 10th-longest by any player this season. It was also the 10th-longest by any player (fourth-longest by a Royal) at Kauffman since 2015, just 8 feet shy of Moss’ club-record blast.
This story was originally published July 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM.
