A great thing to behold. 61 in 61 has, in my mind, always been the record. Bonds, Sosa, McGwire....big time juicers. Epic season from Judge. You just knew he'd pull it off. Great, great player.
Judge got to 60 well short of 154 games (like game 147 I think). So, he would be tied with Ruth even without that caveat. Ruth did it when there were a lot fewer home runs being hit, so his will always be more impressive to me, but Judge just had a season for the ages. Hopefully he can turn it into postseason success.
While he deserves credit for being #7 all time when it comes to HR's in a season, it's really far away from the record. He's in the conversation to be a Sammy Sosa caliber hitter. A strike out waiting to happen that has quite a bit of pop if they ever accidentally happen to hit the ball.
Why are National League hitters so much more powerful than their weak AL competition? Ruth faced pitchers that would get rocked in the Little League World Series.
Steroids. Every other baseball player in that era must have really sucked then, since Ruth was hitting more home runs than some teams.
re-signed with the Yankees Aaron Judge and Yankees agree on 9-year, $360M contract: sources https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/...0221207-kqcu47isb5gflkfwxr27k6sd2a-story.html
Yanks had to do it. And I think should have done it. He earned it. Whether he can repeat the feat to me is irrelevant. He is the current home run champ. You don't let that go. You have to expect he can do something similar again. With Cole, Judge, and Stanton they are in a good position.
