Ian Happ has hit 53 home runs at home as a Cub.
He hit 5 of them last season.
If he hits 5 more in 2023, Happ will move into the top 25 in homers at home among all Cubs in the Modern Era.
Jim Hickman is No. 25 right now, with 58. He is followed by Shawon Dunston (55), then Happ.
Moises Alou rounds out the 28 Cubs who homered at least 50 times at home.
4 others wound up with 49: Randy Hundley, Randy Jackson, Dave Kingman and Frank Schulte.
No one else had more than 43.
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CAREER HOMERS
Happ already ranks 25th in career homers as a Cub, with 104, having supplanted Keith Moreland's 100.
Here are the 24 with more than Happ, in groups of 6:
Sammy Sosa (545), Ernie Banks (512), Billy Williams (392), Ron Santo (337), Ryne Sandberg (282), Anthony Rizzo (242)
Aramis Ramirez (239), Gabby Hartnett (231), Bill Nicholson (205), Hank Sauer (198), Hack Wilson (1980), Alfonso Soriano (181)
Derrek Lee (179), Andre Dawson (174), Kris Bryant (160), Mark Grace (148), Javier Baez (140), Leon Durham (138)
Andy Pafko (126), Jody Davis (122), Kyle Schwarber (121), Willson Contreras (117), Shawon Dunston (107), Rick Monday (106)
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HOMERS AT HOME
The top 5 in home runs at home are the same as in career homers.
But Ramirez, not Rizzo, is sixth. Hartnett and Sauer also rank above Rizzo, who comes in ninth.
Here are the 11 Cubs who reached triple digits in homers at home, followed in parentheses by their ranks in total homers and homers at home:
293: Sosa (1/1)
290: Banks (2/2)
231: Williams (3/3)
212: Santo (4/4)
164: Sandberg (5/5)
120: Ramirez (7/6)
115: Hartnett (8/7)
114: Sauer (10/8)
109: Rizzo (6/9)
105: Lee (13/10T)
105: Wilson (11/10T)
Dawson is next, with 94 homers at home.
Durham and Nicholson each hit 89. Bryant and Soriano each hit 86. Then there is a big gap, to 72 by Davis.
He is followed by Baez (69), Moreland (67), Contreras and Monday (66), Grace (64), Pafko (60) and Schwarber (59).
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HOMERS ON ROAD
Only 9 Cubs since 1901 have homered at least 100 times on the road.
Here they are, followed in parentheses by their ranks in total homers and homers on the road:
252: Sosa (1/1)
222: Banks (2/2)
161: Williams (3/3)
133: Rizzo (6/4)
125: Santo (4/5)
119: Ramirez (7/6)
118: Sandberg (5/7)
116: Hartnett (8/8T)
116: Nicholson (9/8T)
Soriano, with 95, completes the top 10.
Then come Wilson (85), Grace and Sauer (84), Dawson (80), Bryant and Lee (74), Baez (71), Pafko (66) and Schwarber (62)
Phil Cavarretta (55) is 20th, followed by Dunston (52), Contreras and Happ (51) and Davis (50).
Durham is No. 25, with 49, 3 ahead of George Altman.
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DIFFERENCE, HOME AND ROAD
Happ has hit exactly 2 more homers at home than on the road.
Santo hit 87 more, 212-125. Williams (70, 231-161) and Banks (68, 290-222) are the only other Cubs who hit even 47 more homers at home.
The rest of the top 10:
46: Sandberg
41: Sosa
40: Durham
34: Moreland
31: Lee
30: Sauer
26: Monday
9 more had at least 10 more at home: Moises Alou (24), Davis (22), Wilson (20), Hickman (19), Hundley (18), Contreras (15), Dawson (14), Bryant (12) and Jackson (10). No one else had more than 7
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Among the Cubs' top home run hitters, just 4 hit at least 10 fewer homers at home than on the road:
27: Nicholson (89-116)
24: Rizzo (109-133)
20: Grace (64-84)
18: Cavarretta (37-55)
Altman (37-46) and Soriano (86-95) both hit 9 fewer. Pafko (60-66) hit 6. No one else hit more than 3.
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HOME RUN RATIO AT HOME
For each of the leaders in homers at home, I subtracted intentional walks from plate appearances in home games, to determine how many opportunities they had to hit home runs.
(I would have subtracted times each was hit by a first pitch, too, but that data is unavailable.)
I divided opportunities by home runs to determine the ratio for each hitter.
Here are the 10 who averaged a homer at home in fewer than every 20 opportunities:
13.23: Sosa
13.57: Kingman
15.39: Sauer
17.24: Schwarber
17.62: Alou
17.68: Wilson
17.77: Banks
18.03: Dawson
19.03: Ramirez
19.08: Lee
The ratios for others in the top 10 in most homers at home:
20.34: Williams (11th)
21.15: Santo (15th)
25.39: Rizzo (23rd)
28.32: Sandberg (27th)
30.12: Hartnett (30th)
Happ, at 22.34, ranks 20th. just behind Monday (22.20).
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HOME RUNS RATIO ON ROAD
I did the same calculation for homers on the road.
The top 10, with their rank at home in parentheses:
14.09: Kingman (2)
15.40: Sosa (1)
17.15: Schwarber (4)
19.32: Soriano (16)
20.01: Ramirez (9)
21.09: Rizzo (23)
21.18: Sauer (3)
21.46: Baez (18)
21.65: Wilson (6)
22.01: Dawson (8)
Banks is next, at 22.70, then Happ ranks 12th, at 24.22, just ahead of Bryant, at 24.26.
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DIFFERENCE IN RATIO, HOME AND ROAD
Moreland is the runaway leader in homering more frequently at home than on the road.
He averaged at homer every 26.58 opportunities at home, more than twice his ratio of 54.55 on the road -- at difference of 27.97 fewer opportunities required at home.
Here are all 9 Cubs who required at least 10 fewer opportunities per homer at home:
27.97: Moreland (26.58-54.55)
20.83: Hundley (35.04-55.87)
19.03: Alou (17.62-36.65)
15.12: Schulte (65.57-80.69)
14.45: Monday (22.20-36.65)
14.07: Santo (21.15-35.22)
13.52: Durham (21.03-34.55)
11.36: Davis (25.24-36.60)
10.43: Sandberg (28.32-38.75)
Williams is 10th, at 8.51 (20.34-28.85)
6 others had a difference of at least 5: Kiki Cuyler (8.46), Hickman (8.02), Lee (7.57), Contreras (6.40), Jackson (5.99) and Sauer (5.79).
Banks ranks 17th, at 4.93, and Sosa, 23rd, at 1.88.
Happ comes in 24th, at 1.88 (22.34-24.22).
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Cavarretta homered once in every 99.22 opportunities at home, but in every 68.51 on the road -- a difference of 30.71 more opportunities required at home.
Grace needed 17.44 more (64.86-47.42).
Only 3 other Cubs needed at least 2 more:
6.14: Altman (32.57-26.43)
5.56: Nicholson (30.01-24.45)
4.30: Rizzo (25.39-21.09)
