Aaron Judge takes over for Mike Trout as game's best player.
Darin
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Never been a Judge fan but really impressed with what he's doing.
Hits a game winning HR against the Royals in the ninth inning of a 0-0 game then
hits a two run homer and grand slam the next game.
Just give him the MVP now with two months left because even if he gets injured nobody will
catch up with his stats. 41 dingers 89 RBI's in 98 games.
If he stays injury free the next 6 or 7 years and plays at this high of a level he'll probably be
remembered as the best player of his generation instead of Trout.
Opinions welcome!
Over a full year Judge's stats project out to around 65 HR 140 RBI
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And he took away a Royals HR also.
Alfonz yes I forgot about that.
I did get carried away saying if he gets injured nobody will catch up with his stats
but right now he is so far above anyone else in the AL including Ohtani that I think
he deserves MVP right now.
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I never heard of him until now. I don't think I could name more that two current MLB players right now......wrong....3.....Trout, Kershaw, and Judge.......weird part?...... I love baseball, just not MLB.......I'm back to my roots......coaching a Pee-Wee league team....hey!, we won the championship this year!..... Nothing better than teaching the little guys.....PLAY BALL!
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This is Sports Talk @Hydrant
And you are a championship coach...and this is the first I'm hearing of this. This deserved it's own thread so we could follow along game by game...
I agree with you 100% Showman. This topic does deserve it's own thread. I think it would be quite interesting...... Only problem is, I think I would be the only one who thinks so. Too much inside baseball...... I've tried many, many times in the past.....it never goes anywhere..TMI..Oh well......I tried.
Great talent and is having his best year this year.
Judge has had an injury riddled career and is already 30 years old. He takes his share of maintenance days off too.
Darin, it seems to go completely against what you typically would value as great because "Judge is 30 years old and only has 682 career hits," and hasn't even been to a World Series on a team that is stacked and re-stacked annually.
Good luck to the GM that gives him a seven or eight year contract and hopes he stays healthy as he turns 31 years old to start next season.
The guy that really has the best shot to be this generational player is Tatis...but he can't stay healthy either. However, he is still only 23 years old, so time will tell.
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How could you think that you would be the only one, if I just told you that I feel the same way myself?
Projecting players health is like playing table games at the casino to pay your bills. Never a good concept. It takes one play, one twist of the ankle, one freak play and you're done for the year. Look at Josh Naylor last year coming in to catch a fly ball, you just never know.
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Speaking of injuries, I don't think anyone is more injury prone than Adalberto Mondesi for KC.
He starts the year healthy, plays about a dozen games, and is then injured for the rest of the season.
Happens time and time again like clockwork. Only 26 years old but throwing what would have been
a very promising career down the drain.
Byron Buxton is possibly the best all around player, but he can't avoid injury either.
What I find really cool is Judge has a chance to break the all time single season
home run record for human beings* set in 1961 by Roger Maris who hit 61.
Judge has 42 now and I think about 9 dingers in last 8 games or something like that.
*The record for gigantopithecus/almasty/human hybrids stands at 73 by Barry Bonds.
Just like Ford Frick, disregard records you don't respect. . .
When you compare Judge to Trout, just remember that Judge is exactly 263 days younger. They need to be considered about the same age.
Bonds cheated using steroids so it doesn't count, simple as that.
Now if Bonds had a home run hitting contest with a few marvel comics characters and won,
of course it would count. I'd like to see him go up against the Hulk, Thor, the Thing. Those
four are all about the same size in their prime. And they are all non human life forms so
whoever won that matchup I would definitely respect.
A level playing field.......
Update........... Judge on a good home run spree lately, up to 53 HR and 115 RBI.
Now with a very good chance to break the all time single season home run record of 61.