Record Year: 2022 Team: New York Yankees Years Active in MLB: 2016-Present Aaron Judge’s historic 62 home run season in 2022 was quite a thrill to watch.
Even in this homer-happy era, it is not often a player makes a real run at 60 dingers. Image credit: Newsday LLC / Getty Images. Ryan Howard slugged 58 homers in his 2006 NL MVP season. That includes a truly mind-boggling stretch in which Stanton hit 30 homers in a 48-game span. Barry Bonds blew away the major league mark in 2001, before MLB began. Giancarlo Stanton made MLB's last run at 60 homers, going deep 59 times in his 2017 NL MVP season. What Aaron Judge is doing this year is astonishing, but not because he tied Roger Maris’s American League home run record. Here are the nine 60-homer seasons in history: What we're talking about Judge possibly doing doesn't happen often. To accomplish that, you have done it over a season, not just one game or one at-bat." Single-season home run leaderboardīefore we go any further, I should note only nine times in MLB history has a player hit 60 home runs in a season, and six - the top six - of the eight came during what has become known as the Steroid Era. It's something that is a unique record, one of the best in sports. But would be excited for he is able to achieve monumental task. Sixty-one is a unique number," Kevin Maris, one of Roger's sons, told MLB.com in August. We couldn't be more proud in what he accomplished. "It's always nice to see dad brought back in the public eye a little bit for his accolades in baseball. 10, the same number of homers Maris hit with the Yankees. Given the extensive history of Major League Baseball, records and statistics that go back a century and more are sure to be met with caveats and. Also, Judge hit his 203rd career home run on Aug. The Most Home Runs in a MLB Single-Season // ONE37pm. Maris, who passed away in 1985, hit 61 homers 61 years ago in 1961. There is some wonderful symmetry in Judge's pursuit of Maris' AL home run record. Here is the MLB home run leaderboard as of Oct. The race for the home run title isn't much of a race at all.
In addition to home runs Judge also leads the league in walks, runs scored, RBI, total bases, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, OPS+, and both the FanGraphs and Baseball Reference versions of WAR.
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Some players would crack under that pressure. It was a bold decision, no doubt about it, and Judge has responded this season by doing what seemed impossible: he's made himself more money. The Yankees star crushed his 62nd home run of the season Tuesday, beating Roger Maris for the American League single-season record.īack in spring training Judge rejected a very reasonable seven-year contract extension worth $213.5 million. Aaron Judge has joined MLB home run royalty.
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