Since the start of the 2022 season, Judge’s mind-blowing numbers look like this: .314/.439/.682/1.121 with 168 homers and a 207 wRC+. So wait, that’s four seasons of averaging 60 home runs per 162 games and producing runs at a rate more than double the league average?
Do you remember watching the last right-handed hitter to beat Judge’s .314/.439/.682/1.121 line over any span of games this long? If you’re under 95 years old, you’re just making stuff up. Because, according to Baseball Reference, nobody has done it since Foxx went .355/.456/.716/1.171 over a 450-game span between 1932-34.
Here's how hard it is to even approach Judge’s numbers in this day and age:
Only two current players can even top Judge’s batting average since Opening Day 2022. That’s three-time batting champ Luis Arraez (.326) and Freddie Freeman (.315) — who A) both hit left-handed and B) have many fewer home runs combined (103) than Judge has by himself (168).
Read the whole thing, the sheer numbers AND the sheer number of sheer numbers are just too crazy to succinctly encapsulate here.
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