The New York Yankees continue to have a front row seat to history.
Aaron Judge has started this season in a way that exactly zero players in MLB history ever have.
Through Wednesday night’s win at Kansas City, Judge is batting .394 this season with 25 home runs through 66 games.
No one before has ever hit better than .382 with 25 or more homers through this many games, according to MLB stats expert Sarah Langs.
The top-five on this list, via Langs:
- 2025 Aaron Judge: .394, 25 HR
- 1956 Mickey Mantle: .381, 27 HR
- 1932: Jimmie Foxx: .379, 29 HR
- 1994 Frank Thomas: .376, 25 HR
- 1930 Babe Ruth: .375, 29 HR
That’s a good reminder of how special a hitter Frank Thomas was.
Then you’ve got three pantheon-level hitters there in Mantle, Foxx and Ruth.
And atop the entire list is Judge, hitting for an unthinkable batting average in an era loaded with the most talented pitchers, stuff-wise, in baseball history.
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This shouldn’t be possible. It’s historic, yes, but it’s almost unfathomable.
Judge is doing things not only that haven’t been done before, but that are so incredible that no one would’ve even predicted they were possible.
Sure, he hit .322 last year, and maybe there’s big regression coming down to that mark.
But so far, every time Judge drops into the .380s, he quickly storms back close to .400. He’s as locked in as any hitter has been, ever.
At this point, it really doesn’t seem like Judge knows how to slow down.
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