On the heels of his historic season, Time magazine named New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge its athlete of the year for 2022 on Tuesday.
TIMEAaron Judge (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a>)—who set a new American League home-run record earlier this year—is TIME’s 2022 Athlete of the Year: <a href="https://t.co/4XNGWvH32x">https://t.co/4XNGWvH32x</a> <a href="https://t.co/z6APx89FGG">pic.twitter.com/z6APx89FGG</a>
Judge smashed 62 home runs for the Bronx Bombers, breaking the single-season American League record of 61 set by Yankees outfielder Roger Maris in 1961.
By virtue of his 62 homers, 131 RBI, 133 runs scored and .311 batting average, Judge was named AL MVP for the first time, and he is now in line to land one of the biggest contracts in MLB history in free agency.