After crushing home run number 62 on Tuesday, Yankees’ star Aaron Judge got the day off on Wednesday. As a result, his season finished with an incredible, mind-blowing, MVP-caliber .311/.425/.686 line with 62 round-trippers, 133 runs, 131 RBI, 16 stolen bases, a 207 wRC+, and 11.5 fWAR. That’ll do.
With all due respect to Shohei Ohtani, Judge should win the AL MVP award. It’s closer than we all think, because Ohtani was even better in 2022 than last year when he took home the award unanimously, but Judge’s offensive campaign was historic.
Speaking of history, Judge just had the best offensive season in MLB since early-2000s Barry Bonds (yes, that includes peak Mike Trout, too) and a top 10 season in Yankees history.