Here are all the home run records Mariners star Cal Raleigh is still chasing

Cal Raleigh has already broken the single-season record for home runs by a primary catcher, and he didn't even need the final month of the Seattle Mariners' 2025 campaign to do it. He's that hot, but there's one thing he is not: finished chasing long ball history.

"Big Dumper" made this abundantly clear on Monday, as he followed up his 48th and 49th homers of the year on Sunday by launching No. 50 against the San Diego Padres:

Just like that, Raleigh became just the second Mariner and second switch-hitter to cross the 50-homer threshold in a season. He joined Ken Griffey Jr. and Mickey Mantle, respectively, which isn't bad company for a slugger to keep.

And now for the obligatory next question: Which home run records are next?

Cal Raleigh is still chasing these 4 home run records

Home runs as a catcher: Javy Lopez's 42 from 2003

Though Raleigh has 50 home runs overall, he's collected 10 of those — including Monday's blast for No. 50 — as a designated hitter for the at-bat in question. He thus still has work to do if he wants to properly break the records for home runs as a catcher.

He's all but certain to do so, however. His 40 home runs as a catcher put him just two short of Lopez's mark from 22 years ago. As he already has nine multi-homer games for the season, he could at least match Lopez's record as soon as Tuesday night.

Home runs by a switch-hitter: Mickey Mantle's 54 from 1961

That 1961 season is the same one in which Roger Maris set a new MLB record with 61 home runs. It's the only time in history that two teammates have each hit 50 homers in a season, and the 115 total homers by Mantle and Maris for the New York Yankees likewise still stands as a record.

But we digress. The point is that Mantle's record for home runs by a switch-hitter is also likely to fall to Raleigh. He has 30 more games to hit the four he needs to tie it, and a fifth homer would be the coup de grace. He's hit five homers just in his last 10 games.

Home runs by a Mariner: Ken Griffey Jr.'s 56 from 1997 and 1998

After Griffey left the Mariners following the 1999 season — sorry for bringing it up — the closest anyone came to his franchise home run record was when Nelson Cruz hit 44 and then 43 homers in back-to-back seasons in 2015 and 2016. It's no wonder it felt out of reach.

Apparently not for Raleigh, however, and this is another situation where it's hard to fathom him falling short. Even if he doesn't hit another home run in August, it'll be the fifth straight month in which he will have gone deep at least eight times. Another such month in September would make him the Mariners' new single-season home run king.

Home runs by an American League hitter: Aaron Judge's 62 from 2022

This is it. The big one. And with Raleigh technically on pace for 61 homers, it's still within his reach.

In fact, Raleigh is just one homer short of where Judge was through the Yankees' first 132 games of 2022. Judge promptly homered nine more times in his next 15 games, but just twice more the rest of the way. He didn't break Maris' AL record until the Yankees' 161st game.

Mariners fans should be thankful in retrospect that Judge did not stay hot throughout and end up with, say, 65 homers. Because as hot as Raleigh is right now, asking him to hit more than 12 home runs in a 30-game span is asking a lot. He's five months into a year in which he's logged 865.2 innings at the most physically demanding position on the diamond.

Then again, Raleigh has hit as many as 17 homers in a 30-game span this season. There's no guarantee he can do that again, but he won't just break Judge's record if he does. The darn thing will be shattered.