30–30 club

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In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 30–30 club is the group of 51 batters who have collected 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a single season.[1][2] Baseball Digest called the 30–30 club "the most celebrated feat that can be achieved by a player who has both power and speed."[2][3] Six members have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

An African-American man in a white baseball uniform with "GIANTS" on the chest takes a left-handed baseball swing as a catcher kneels behind him to receive the pitch.
Barry Bonds joined the 30–30 club in five seasons, a record he shares with his father Bobby.

Ken Williams was the first to achieve this, in 1922.[4][5] He remained the sole member of the club for 34 years until Willie Mays achieved consecutive 30–30 seasons in 1956 and 1957.[5][3] Bobby Bonds became the club's fourth member in 1969; he subsequently became the first player to achieve the mark in three, four, and five seasons.[3][6][5] His son Barry Bonds is the only other player with five 30–30 seasons.

In total, 51 players have joined the 30–30 club, with 17 achieving it multiple times, resulting in 77 individual seasons overall. Of these 51, 31 were right-handed batters, 14 were left-handed, and six were switch hitters. Twelve of the 51 players (including seven active members of the 30–30 club) have played for only one major league team. The New York Mets are the only franchise to have five players reach the milestone, and have had the most individual 30–30 seasons (8) as well (Howard Johnson did it three times, Francisco Lindor two). The Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants each have had three players reach the milestone. 6 franchises, the St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago White Sox have never had a 30-30 season. Although Bobby Bonds played for the White Sox for part of his 31 home run, 43 stolen base 1978 season, he only hit two home runs and stole six bases during his time in Chicago that season; the other team Bonds played for in 1978, the Texas Rangers, does not get credit for his 30–30 season either, as he hit only 29 home runs in Texas that season.[7] The only other player to play for multiple franchises in a 30–30 season is Carlos Beltrán in 2004, who amassed 15 home runs and 14 stolen bases with the Kansas City Royals before being traded to the Houston Astros and hitting 23 home runs and stealing 28 bases.

Five players – Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez and Sammy Sosa – are also members of the 500-home-run club,[8] and Aaron, Mays and Rodriguez are also members of the 3,000-hit club.[9] Dale Murphy, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Larry Walker, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Braun, Mookie Betts, Ronald Acuña Jr., and Shohei Ohtani won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the same year as their 30–30 season; Bonds did so twice, in 1990 and 1992.[10] Mays and Rollins also reached the 20–20–20 club in the same season.[11][12][13] A single season has seen as many as seven players accomplish 30–30; this happened only once, in 2025 (Corbin Carroll, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Pete Crow-Armstrong, Francisco Lindor, José Ramírez, Julio Rodríguez and Juan Soto).[14] The feat has been accomplished by teammates three times: the 1987 New York Mets (Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson), the 1996 Colorado Rockies (Ellis Burks and Dante Bichette) and the 2025 New York Mets (Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor). Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals was the first shortstop to achieve multiple 30–30 seasons, reaching this milestone in both 2023, with 30 home runs and 49 stolen bases, and 2024, with 32 home runs and 31 stolen bases,[15] before being joined by Francisco Lindor who had his first 30-30 season in 2023 having both 31 home runs and stolen bases, then doing it again in 2025 with 31 home runs and stolen bases.[16] Mike Trout became the youngest member of the 30–30 club, doing so at the age of 20 in 2012.[17] The oldest players to record a 30–30 season did so in their age-32 season: José Ramírez (2025), Barry Bonds (1997), Dante Bichette (1996), Ellis Burks (1996), Bobby Bonds (1978), and Ken Williams (1922).[18]

Members

Black-and-white photo of Willie Mays, smiling in a San Francisco Giants hat
Willie Mays became the first player to achieve multiple 30–30 seasons; he accomplished the feat in back-to-back years.[2][3]
A black-and-white photo of Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron is one of six 30–30 club members to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Barry Larkin follows through after a hit, wearing a Cincinnati Reds uniform
Barry Larkin attained 30–30 in 1996.
With baseball in hand, an African-American man wearing a white and red Nationals baseball uniform cocks his arm backward as he prepares to throw
Alfonso Soriano reached the 30–30 club in four seasons, second only to Bobby and Barry Bonds.
Ronald Acuña Jr. reached the 30–30 club in two seasons (2019 and 2023). He is the first player in history to reach the 30–60 and 40-70 clubs.
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Year The year the player's 30–30 season occurred
Player (X) Name of the player (number of 30–30 seasons at that point, if more than one)
Team The player's team for his 30–30 season
HR Number of home runs in that year
SB Number of stolen bases in that year
& Denotes 40–40 season
# Denotes 50–50 season
† Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
‡ Player is active
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Members of the 30–30 club
Year Player Team HR SB Ref.
1922 Ken Williams St. Louis Browns3937[19]
1956 Willie Mays† New York Giants3640[13]
1957 Willie Mays† (2) New York Giants3538[13]
1963 Hank Aaron† Milwaukee Braves4431[20]
1969 Bobby Bonds San Francisco Giants3245[21]
1970 Tommy Harper Milwaukee Brewers3138[22]
1973 Bobby Bonds (2) San Francisco Giants3943[21]
1975 Bobby Bonds (3) New York Yankees3230[21]
1977 Bobby Bonds (4) California Angels3741[21]
1978 Bobby Bonds (5) Chicago White Sox
Texas Rangers		3143[21]
1983 Dale Murphy Atlanta Braves3630[23]
1987 Joe Carter Cleveland Indians3231[24]
Eric Davis Cincinnati Reds3750[25]
Howard Johnson New York Mets3632[26]
Darryl Strawberry New York Mets3936[27]
1988 Jose Canseco Oakland Athletics42&40&[28]
1989 Howard Johnson (2) New York Mets3641[26]
1990 Barry Bonds Pittsburgh Pirates3352[29]
Ron Gant Atlanta Braves3233[30]
1991 Ron Gant (2) Atlanta Braves3234[30]
Howard Johnson (3) New York Mets3830[26]
1992 Barry Bonds (2) Pittsburgh Pirates3439[29]
1993 Sammy Sosa Chicago Cubs3336[31]
1995 Barry Bonds (3) San Francisco Giants3331[29]
Sammy Sosa (2) Chicago Cubs3634[31]
1996 Dante Bichette Colorado Rockies3131[32]
Barry Bonds (4) San Francisco Giants42&40&[29]
Ellis Burks Colorado Rockies4032[33]
Barry Larkin† Cincinnati Reds3336[34]
1997 Jeff Bagwell† Houston Astros4331[35]
Barry Bonds (5) San Francisco Giants4037[29]
Raúl Mondesí Los Angeles Dodgers3032[36]
Larry Walker† Colorado Rockies4933[37]
1998 Shawn Green Toronto Blue Jays3535[38]
Alex Rodriguez Seattle Mariners42&46&[39]
1999 Jeff Bagwell† (2) Houston Astros4230[35]
Raúl Mondesí (2) Los Angeles Dodgers3336[36]
2000 Preston Wilson Florida Marlins3136[40]
2001 Bobby Abreu Philadelphia Phillies3136[41]
José Cruz Jr. Toronto Blue Jays3432[42]
Vladimir Guerrero† Montreal Expos3437[43]
2002 Vladimir Guerrero† (2) Montreal Expos3940[43]
Alfonso Soriano New York Yankees3941[44]
2003 Alfonso Soriano (2) New York Yankees3835[44]
2004 Bobby Abreu (2) Philadelphia Phillies3040[41]
Carlos Beltrán† Kansas City Royals
Houston Astros		3842[45]
2005 Alfonso Soriano (3) Texas Rangers3630[44]
2006 Alfonso Soriano (4) Washington Nationals46&41&[44]
2007 Brandon Phillips Cincinnati Reds3032[46]
Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies3041[47]
David Wright New York Mets3034[48]
2008 Hanley Ramírez Florida Marlins3335[49]
Grady Sizemore Cleveland Indians3338[50]
2009 Ian Kinsler Texas Rangers3130[51]
2011 Ryan Braun Milwaukee Brewers3333[52]
Jacoby Ellsbury Boston Red Sox3239[53]
Matt Kemp Los Angeles Dodgers3940[54]
Ian Kinsler (2) Texas Rangers3230[51]
2012 Ryan Braun (2) Milwaukee Brewers4130[52]
Mike Trout‡ Los Angeles Angels3049[55]
2018 Mookie Betts‡ Boston Red Sox3230[56]
José Ramírez‡ Cleveland Indians3934[57]
2019 Ronald Acuña Jr.‡ Atlanta Braves 41 37 [58]
Christian Yelich‡ Milwaukee Brewers 44 30 [59]
2021 Cedric Mullins‡ Baltimore Orioles 30 30 [60]
2023 Ronald Acuña Jr.‡ (2) Atlanta Braves 41& 73& [58]
Francisco Lindor‡ New York Mets 31 31 [61]
Julio Rodríguez‡ Seattle Mariners 32 37 [62]
Bobby Witt Jr.‡ Kansas City Royals 30 49 [63]
2024 Shohei Ohtani‡ Los Angeles Dodgers 54# 59# [64]
José Ramírez‡ (2) Cleveland Guardians 39 41 [65]
Bobby Witt Jr.‡ (2) Kansas City Royals 32 31 [63]
2025 Corbin Carroll‡ Arizona Diamondbacks 31 32 [66]
Jazz Chisholm Jr.‡ New York Yankees 31 31 [67]
Pete Crow-Armstrong‡ Chicago Cubs 31 35 [68]
Francisco Lindor‡(2) New York Mets 31 31 [69]
José Ramírez‡ (3) Cleveland Guardians 30 44 [70]
Julio Rodríguez‡(2) Seattle Mariners 32 30 [62]
Juan Soto‡ New York Mets 43 38 [71]
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