Former Yankees Slugger Turns Heads With Mammoth Homer in Japan

Former Yankees Slugger Turns Heads With Mammoth Homer in Japan originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

Unlike several of his slumping former teammates, ex-New York Yankees first baseman Luke Voit is spending his summer mashing home runs.

You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t seen much of Voit on your social media timelines lately, given that he’s now playing for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan. However, as the Talkin’ Baseball X/Twitter account shared on Tuesday, the move overseas hasn’t diminished Voit’s power stroke in the slightest.

Luke Voit is smoking balls in Japan pic.twitter.com/wlKymEqkoJ

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 8, 2025

“A perfect blast,” the @Rakuten_Pacific X/Twitter account wrote in the original post.

Voit opened the season in Mexico, hitting .314 with 12 homers, 26 RBIs, and a 1.015 OPS for Tigres de Quintana Roo. He joined the Eagles (yes, they go by Eagles rather than Golden Eagles) last month and went 4-for-11 with a homer over his first four games.

“Get him back in the majors!” one X user commented.

Added another: “[Missed] that swing🙂‍↕️”

Although Voit played for five teams across seven seasons, his most successful years came following his 2018 arrival in the Bronx. The 6-foot-2, 258-pound slugger hit .271 with 68 homers and a .883 OPS over 281 games in pinstripes, helping the Yankees to four consecutive playoff berths.

Voit is the last Yankees player not named Aaron Judge to lead the team in homers, posting a league-high 22 bombs during the shortened 2020 campaign. However, various injuries limited Voit’s availability in 2021, and the Yankees acquired Chicago Cubs star Anthony Rizzo at that year’s trade deadline.

Voit left the majors with a .253 average, 95 homers, and a 5.5 bWAR from 2017-23. We’ll see if he eventually returns, and if pitchers will again fear his power.

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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.