Aaron Judge is the latest MLB player to pursue a .400 batting average for a season.
Currently hanging out in the .390s, it's a long way to the finish line for the Yankees superstar.
The last guy to hit .400 or better in an MLB season was Ted Williams, who batted .406 in 1941 for the Red Sox.
But that only tells part of the story, as MLB analyst Ryan Spaeder shared on X on Friday.
If you set the parameters differently and don't just limit this to a span from Opening Day to the season's final day, there's more recent company, fittingly also from Boston.
From June 9, 1985 through Jun 6, 1986, Wade Boggs played 162 games for the Red Sox. And in that span, he batted .401.
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It's one of the purest hitting stretches in baseball history, forgotten because it happened from one midseason point to the next year's midseason point.
But it's a cool thing to look back on, thanks to the fun stat.
Spaeder also points out that Boggs wasn't just a contact hitter. He had an incredible eye at the plate.
In 1988, Boggs had a career-best .476 on-base percentage. And Spaeder writes that was a higher number than Ty Cobb had for OBP in any of his three .400 seasons.
So yeah, that Wade Boggs guy was pretty good.
He's a Hall of Famer now, of course, but maybe less legendary because he wasn't a home run hitter.
Boggs had one of the sweetest left-handed swings the game has ever seen, though, and he once truly swung it at the level of a .400 hitter for an entire season's worth of games.
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