The Pecan Park Eagle

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig didn’t get etra tandem homer total credit for the homers they bashed in the post-season cornfields of Iowa.

When was the time the Astros had two formidable home run threats on the roster at the same time? By standards of national history, that would have been the downfall 2000 season, the club’s first year in the downtown ballpark we first called Enron Field. The tandem was only a one-year phenomenon, but it was good enough in the short term to place the work of Jeff Bagwell (47) and Richard Hidalgo (44) among the 26 greatest combo long-ballers that any MLB team has ever seen. It’s too bad that Hidalgo’s 2000 season could not have been captured like an electrical mist in a bottle and sprayed upon him every spring. He could have been one of the great ones of all time, but it just wasn’t meant to be.

The list here is interesting. It’s dominated by Hall of Famers and mixed with a number of contemporary steroid suspects, but not everyone here falls into either of those categories (maybe).

It’s also interesting to note that sometimes a crazy number team leader will combine with more than one other member of the club to make the list twice. (See Barry Bonds).

Have fun as all of us Astros fans contemplate the future possibilities of George Springer and Jon Singleton one day making this list.

26 Best Tandem Player HR Totals by Teammates in Major League Baseball