Aaron Judge
Judge's torrid early pace suggests another historic power surge is brewing. Despite a pedestrian .232 average through 22 games, he's crushing baseballs at a 66-home run clip — which would shatter his own American League record of 62. The .598 slugging percentage tells the real story here.
The slight dip in walk rate from his career 15.7% to 12% indicates pitchers are challenging him more aggressively, yet Judge continues mashing mistakes. His strikeout rate has ticked up to 31.5%, but that's noise when you're producing this kind of power output. The BABIP of .227 suggests some bad luck on balls in play, making his overall production even more impressive.
Coming off back-to-back MVP seasons with 58 and 53 homers respectively, Judge has entered rarified air where 50-homer seasons have become routine. At 33, he's showing no signs of slowing down, cementing his status as this generation's premier slugger.
| Date | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .248 |
| May 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .248 |
| May 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .252 |
| May 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .252 |
| May 26 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .256 |
| May 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| May 24 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| May 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .245 |
| May 21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| May 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .256 |
Career · Batting
11 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | — | 27 | 84 | 4 | 10 | — | — | — |
| 2017 | — | 155 | 542 | 52 | 114 | — | 1.049 | — |
| 2018 | — | 112 | 413 | 27 | 67 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | — | 102 | 378 | 27 | 55 | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | 28 | 101 | 9 | 22 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | 148 | 550 | 39 | 98 | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | 157 | 570 | 62 | 131 | — | 1.111 | — |
| 2023 | — | 106 | 367 | 37 | 75 | — | 1.019 | — |
| 2024 | — | 158 | 559 | 58 | 144 | — | 1.159 | — |
| 2025 | — | 152 | 541 | 53 | 114 | — | 1.145 | — |
| 2026 | — | 59 | 214 | 17 | 38 | — | — | — |
| Career | 1204 | 4319 | 385 | 868 | — | — | — | |
Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.
The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.
The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.