Baseball stats are pretty malleable, so if you want, you can find a new record that Aaron Judge breaks every single game.
Given that Judge is having one of the best hitting seasons ever, though, it's really that not hard to see that the New York Yankees superstar is truly one of the greats.
After Thursday night, Judge is batting .392 with 21 home runs.
According to MLB stats expert Sarah Langs, it's the second-best batting average ever for a player with at least 20 homers through 61 games. And it's the best in American League history.
Only 1925 Rogers Hornsby (.428) was better. Judge is ahead of two Mickey Mantle seasons (.389 in 1957, .379 in 1956) and 1930 Lou Gehrig (.386).
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It really emphasizes how absurd what Judge is doing is when every mark he joins or breaks comes from a guy from more than a half-century ago.
It's easy now to look back and marvel at the stats of the likes of Gehrig and Hornsby. We never figured they'd be matched in the modern era.
This particular statistic never even got company in the Steroid Era. How was it supposed to be matched in an era with the most talented, absurd pitchers ever?
But Judge is doing it, and it feels like he's making it easy most of the time.
Don't blink, and don't take this for granted. Judge has taken us back to the days of the earliest titans of the game, and it's a beautiful thing.
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