{"id":160208,"date":"2025-09-16T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160208\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:04:09","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-keeps-making-mlb-history-not-done-since-barry-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160208\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Aaron Judge keeps making MLB history not done since Barry Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yankees’ Aaron Judge keeps making MLB history not done since Barry Bonds<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

Aaron Judge is so good at hitting that the only real comparison in modern times is Barry Bonds.<\/p>\n

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Yet somehow, it feels like the MLB world almost takes Judge for granted. He’s so consistently remarkable that it seems normal when the New York Yankees’ 6-foot-7 slugger does yet another amazing thing.<\/p>\n

But there’s one stat that sums up his brilliance as much as any other.<\/p>\n

Since Bonds retired, only one hitter has ever reached a 200 OPS+ in a season. That’s a mark that puts OPS (on-base plus slugging) on a scale where 100 is league average and every point one way or the other equates to a percent.<\/p>\n

The only hitter with a 200 OPS+ in a season since Bonds retired is Judge.<\/p>\n

And he’s done it three times.<\/p>\n

An OPS+ of 200 means a hitter is 100 percent better than league average, or put another way, doubly as good as league average.<\/p>\n

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Judge keeps exceeding that mark. In the process, he continues to make his case as the greatest right-handed hitter ever.<\/p>\n

Don’t take this for granted. There may never be another hitter quite like Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Kyle Schwarber ties Stan Musial’s awesome lefty home run record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Aaron Judge keeps making MLB history not done since Barry Bonds originally appeared on The Sporting News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,16732,5528,363,369,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-160208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-barry-bonds","10":"tag-kyle-schwarber","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}