However his season and career finishes, the Yankees’ captain has begun to place himself in conversations with legends.
“I hope he breaks the home-run record,” Soto said Wednesday in referencing Barry Bonds ’ 762 career home runs. “Why not? I think he’s the guy who can literally break the record. He’s been showing it off every time. I hope he got the health to do it. I’m going to enjoy it as much as I can, too.”
Judge, who still has about six weeks this season to stalk 60 again, has averaged about 45 home runs per year since 2021.If that same pace continued into his late 30s and early 40s — let’s call it the Tom Brady career arc, in which his growing smarts seem to compensate for dips in athleticism — a 43-year-old Judge would pass Bonds’ and Aaron’s marks in 11 years, which would be four years after his current, nine-year contract with the Yankees expires.
“What Aaron’s doing,” manager Aaron Boone said after Wednesday’s win in Chicago over the White Sox, “a select few in the history of the game the kind of season he’s having.” He has figured out a swing that works and a training routine that has largely kept him on the field after too many injuries in his early years.There are no holes remaining for a solid center fielder who is hitting .333 with a .467 on-base percentage, 43 home runs and 110 RBIs and would be on his way to a Triple Crown if not for Bobby Witt Jr.’s .349 average.
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