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TMLeafer
Rest in Peace Johnny Bower
CabanaBoy5
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Cimber you bonehead! Make a great pitch and throws it away AND doesn’t cover home plate after the errant throw. It’s the little things that are to doom this team.
TMLeafer
Rest in Peace Johnny Bower
TMLeafer
Rest in Peace Johnny Bower
EpochLink
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Darcy Tucker
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Buddy dropping that homerun ball is making my night. Life changing money falling right through your hands 
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red devil
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EpochLink
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red devil
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I know but I'm just saying that if the Orioles lose tomorrow then they clinch watching from home
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phillipmike
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Not a great night. But Tampa and Baltimore lost.
Magic number is 1. And Seattle winning isn’t bad. Rather play Seattle than Tampa in the WC round.
Magic number is 1. And Seattle winning isn’t bad. Rather play Seattle than Tampa in the WC round.
SpezDispenser
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That would have been a life changing catch with the money it'd come with.That poor bastard who almost caught Judges HR!
But as a small consolation, Frankie Lasagna got the best free advertising for his restaurant that he could ever ask for.
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Suntouchable13
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Overall I think it is good to remember that we have seen a lot more good than ugly since John took over. 41 wins 27 Ls. More than the Yanks, more than TB, more then Baltimore. Onwards and upwards from here.
ChuckNorris4Cup
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Judge hasn't broken any record though yet lol all he's done is tied one, the record will be when he actually breaks it lol.
It was in the Yankees 155th game so it would have the same asterisk that Maris did since Babe hit his in a 154 game season.
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Suntouchable13
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Deep down, I hope Baltimore wins today so Jays can clinch by winning tomorrow night in front of the fans.
The Nemesis
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A lot of the insane dominance of Ruth feels like it's losing context and perspective. He was doing what he did in 150 game seasons. And he was out in front of the field to a ridiculous degree.
Perspective:
Judge has 61 so far this season. There are 18 other players in MLB who have at least 30 HR. His next closest competitor right now is Kyle Schwarber at 42, then Pete Alonso at 40
When Ruth hit 60 the 2nd place player was Lou Gehrig at 47, but 3rd place was Hack Wilson and Cy Williams with exactly 30 HR. And if you go down to 19th place on that ranking, equal to the 30-HR depth now, those guys were finishing with 9 HR.
If we go back to the first full season of Judge's career and look at that span (2017-2022) he has 215 HR. 2nd place is Nolan Aranado with 188, then Eugenio Suarez with 186, then Mike Trout with 180 and Kyle Schwarber with 179. 20 players besides Judge have at least 150 HR.
Counting back the same # of seasons from Ruth's peak HR year (1922-1927) the leaderboard is
1) Ruth - 254
2) Rogers Hornsby - 160
3) Cy Williams - 152
4) Ken Williams - 145
5) Jack Fournier - 102
Those 5 guys are the only ones to top 100 HR in a 6-year span. Comparatively 85 players across MLB have hit at least 100 in the last 6 years combined.
I think sometimes it's easy to look at Babe Ruth and think that he's a nostalgia-and-wistfulness-fueled legend. A product of the Yankee romanticism and baseball culture of the day gushing over him and believe that he's been inflated and pumped up over time. It's not. He was so much better than everyone else in the sport at the act of hitting a baseball that it was comical.
One more bit of context: given that wRC+ is weighted to league averages of its respective seasons it's a good tool for comparing across the vastness of time.
This season Judge is putting up a wRC+ of 209. It's far and away the best season of his career, 60 points clear of his next highest mark.
It would've barely eked out the 7th highest spot on Babe Ruth's season-by-season wRC+ totals. Babe, for his career and including the early years where he pitched and was not that good of a hitter and his couple of late-career swoon years before he retired, put up a career mark of 206. People talk about Ohtani as the modern Ruth, but really what he's doing is different because Ruth was a great pitcher and then he was a great hitter and not both simultaneously. But at the same time Ohtani isn't Ruth with the bat. Nor is Judge. Babe Ruth was basically juiced-up Barry Bonds. But instead of being on the juice Ruth was out partying with models and mobsters until the wee hours of the morning and then showing up at the park hungover but still able to go 3-5 and launch a ball 450 feet into the bleachers.
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