Aaron Judge just won’t stop mashing for the New York Yankees and is somehow off to an even better month of June after hitting 14 homers and 12 doubles in May.
Judge has put his slow start in the rearview mirror and is now once again atop the league in one all-important stat.
MLB shared the most recent top-10 list of the bWAR leaderboard, and Judge is sitting comfortably in first at 5.2 so far this season followed by Gunnar Henderson at 4.8, Bobby Witt Jr. at 4.0, Ketel Marte at 3.9, and Mookie Betts tied with Judge’s teammate Juan Soto for fifth at 3.7.
Judge has 25 homers already and has put up a ridiculous 1.850 .OPS so far in the month of June, which has largely contributed to his ascendance up this leaderboard, not to mention his full-time return to center field this season, which doesn’t hurt in the WAR department.
Judge has done a solid job in center, as he has yet to make an error and has been about average in terms of his range.
WAR is always a major factor when it comes to MVP voting, so Judge’s sizable advantage so far in this category will go a long way toward him capturing his second MVP.
It seems inevitable that Judge will cool off at some point, as hitting 19 home runs since May 5 has put him on a ridiculous pace, but Judge has shown he is capable of sustaining long stretches of dominance before.
He is currently on pace for 59 homers and is in a position to make a run at his own AL record of 62 that he set just a couple of years ago.
