Before Friday night’s game against the Minnesota Twins, three position players were tied at the top of the Yankees fWAR leaderboard with 0.6: Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres, and Anthony Rizzo. Sure, it was just about a dozen games, but that tells you the kind of start Rizzo has had this season — one that continued earlier today when he went yard again.
The lefty-hitting slugger was slashing a cool .326/.423/.581 with three home runs and a 179 wRC+ after his two-homer outburst on Thursday. Still, he was putting up some really nice numbers even before that game.