The 300 Home Run Club: All 170 Members, Bonds to Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani led off the bottom of the first at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night, turned on a Michael Lorenzen sinker, and became the 170th member of baseball’s 300 home run club, the first Japanese-born player ever to reach the mark, in the fifth-fewest games in MLB history. It capped a remarkable three-week rush on the club’s door: George Springer became member #168 on June 17, Mookie Betts #169 on June 24, and Ohtani #170 on July 7, three entrants in 21 days for a club that sometimes goes years without one.

The 300 club is baseball’s great power census: exclusive enough to mean something (170 members across 150 years of the sport), broad enough to hold every kind of slugger, from Babe Ruth to Rogers Hornsby to a two-way unicorn with 765 pitching strikeouts, a total no other member is within 264 of.

The chart below covers the newest members, the complete 170-player membership roll, the tiers within the club, and who’s next through the door. Take a look, then we’ll break it all down.

Member #170, and why this one is different

Every 300 club entry is a career certificate; Ohtani’s is also several firsts stapled together. He is the first Japanese-born player to reach the mark, a threshold with special resonance in a country whose greatest slugger, Sadaharu Oh, hit 868 in NPB, and he reached it faster than all but four members: 1,101 games with a plate appearance, per Elias, trailing only Aaron Judge (953), Ralph Kiner, Ryan Howard, and Juan González.

He’s also the club’s only true two-way anomaly, entering with 765 career strikeouts as a pitcher, a total that laps the previous club record held by, fittingly, Babe Ruth at 501. The homer itself was a leadoff shot, making Ohtani just the second player ever (after Steve Finley, whose 304 sits eleven rows up the table) to open a game with his 300th. He got to the milestone in nine seasons despite hitting only 47 homers across his first three, averaging 46.6 per year from 2021-25 including the sport’s first 50-homer, 50-steal season, and his manager is already talking publicly about the 500 club. He just turned 32. It’s not an unreasonable conversation.

Reading the full table

The membership roll above rewards scrolling. The top is the sport’s Rushmore, four members at 700-plus, nine at 600, twenty-eight past the traditional automatic-Cooperstown line of 500, but the club’s soul lives in the middle and bottom: Rogers Hornsby, the greatest right-handed hitter ever, squeaking in at 301; Chuck Klein holding the exact-300 floor since 1944 (now with three brand-new neighbors); Roger Maris, owner of the most famous season in home run history, missing membership entirely at 275, proof that 300 measures career, not peak. The Hall of Fame asterisks tell their own story: plenty of members aren’t enshrined and never will be, because 300 homers certifies power, not greatness, and the gap between Jeromy Burnitz (315) and Yogi Berra (358) on the same list is the whole point. Eighteen members are active, from Stanton’s 456 down to the three 2026 entrants at the floor, and one clubhouse, the Dodgers’, now seats three members in the same batting order: Freeman, Betts, and Ohtani.

The rush at the door, and who’s next

Three new members in 21 days is a burst the club rarely sees, and the queue behind them says the census isn’t done growing this season: José Ramírez sits in the mid-290s and should make it four 2026 entries, with Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso in the low 280s tracking toward 2027.

The active wing skews historic at the top too, Judge’s 385-and-counting came faster than anyone’s ever, Trout is past 400 despite the injuries, and Schwarber is authoring one of the great late-bloomer power runs, which means the table above will need regular maintenance for years. That’s how this page works, incidentally: active totals shown are floors that rise nightly, and the full table refreshes at the All-Star break and again when the season ends, or sooner, whenever member #171 knocks. Judging by the last three weeks, keep the door oiled.

Final Word

The 300 home run club, complete: 170 members from Barry Bonds’ 762 down to the exact-300 floor where Chuck Klein was just joined by the class of 2026, George Springer (#168, June 17), Mookie Betts (#169, June 24), and Shohei Ohtani (#170, July 7), the first Japanese-born member, the fifth-fastest arrival, and the only one who brought 765 pitching strikeouts with him. Four members at 700, nine at 600, twenty-eight at 500, eighteen active, three in one Dodgers lineup, and José Ramírez at the door. The full roll is above; the census updates as they keep swinging.

Ohtani’s next milestone chase joins the pages in most career home runs of all time, this week’s other historic farewell is in Justin Verlander’s career stats, and the week’s showcase is covered in the 2026 All-Star Game guide.