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Official Aaron judge at bat thread ( with the wake game in the background)

deacon14 said:
I love baseball, but it's fascinating to me that some people care so much about single season records like this. It feels unique to baseball, I don't remember anyone caring near as much about Steph Curry setting the single season 3 pointer record for example.

Career long records are interesting to me because they feel more like celebrations of a great career, like Pujols hitting 700. Maybe I'm in the minority of baseball fans, but I don't care at all about single season home run records, particularly considering how ridiculous it is to compare one era of baseball to another.
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I think a big reason for the distinction is that some of the baseball seasonal records are so old. Maris' HR record (before and then ignoring the roid era), Ruth's before him, DiMaggio's record, etc. have stood for a long time even as the game has evolved. I don't know who holds the NFL record for passing yards in a season, but I assume it falls just about every year.

That said, I do think the HR record will start to fall almost yearly in the near future, even without roids. The focus on launch angle and core training starts at such a young age now that the next generation of players is going to be solely focused on it and able to do it better. Perfect Game will be either the best or worst thing to happen to baseball over the next few decades, depending on your perspective. Especially once it spreads more robustly to Latin America.
 
Maybe, but Judge has lapped the field in HRs this year. He has 60. Schwarber is 2nd in MLB with 42. It's not like we have 10 other guys with 50+ HRs. In the steriod years when the HR records fell guys like Brady Anderson were hitting 50 HRs. Not the case these days.
 
Impressive that second place in homers this year could end up further behind than second place when Bonds hit 73.

Even as a Yankee hater I see the significance. That does not change the fact they should not have interrupted our game for those at bats.
 
Pilchard said:
Maybe, but Judge has lapped the field in HRs this year. He has 60. Schwarber is 2nd in MLB with 42. It's not like we have 10 other guys with 50+ HRs. In the steriod years when the HR records fell guys like Brady Anderson were hitting 50 HRs. Not the case these days.
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Right, I think it'll be another 5-10 years before the kids who grew up in PG start making their way solidly into MLB. But it will be a lot of them when it happens.
I agree Judge is unique in today's climate.
 
DeacsPop said:
And you are entitled to believe the joke, "record books". How do you feel about your HR Leader being barred from the HOF? Nice look. Maybe they should just photo his fat bloated head on a plaque.
While we can debate who should be in or out and why, as long as those guys are banned from Cooperstown, this is one BB fan who recognizes Maris....for now.
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Roger Maris isn’t in the Hall of Fame either.
 
deacon14 said:
I love baseball, but it's fascinating to me that some people care so much about single season records like this. It feels unique to baseball, I don't remember anyone caring near as much about Steph Curry setting the single season 3 pointer record for example.

Career long records are interesting to me because they feel more like celebrations of a great career, like Pujols hitting 700. Maybe I'm in the minority of baseball fans, but I don't care at all about single season home run records, particularly considering how ridiculous it is to compare one era of baseball to another.
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Same goes for swimming and track and field, i.e. records and who holds/breaks them. And I think the comparison to baseball is kinda similar b/c even though there are 10 players on the field, it's very much an individual effort of pitcher vs. batter. Add to that the sanctity of 162 games for the last 60 years (and for almost 70 years before that 154), and you have a unique combination of individual accomplishment over a sport that consumes half the year and is played over three seasons of climate.
 
DeacsPop said:
Please; only a matter of days before MLB has a new home run leader.
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Well it took him from Fri to today to tie Maris (not sure how far down the list he is), so seems ambitious for him to get 13 in only a matter of days.
 
THE STANDS ARE PACKED FOR THIS HISTORIC MOMENT !

 
LilburnDeac said:
Like Roger Maris
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Roger Maris should be in the HOF. Back to back MVP years (60&61) and as solid a defensive player in the game. 4 WS rings (3 with the Bombers, 1 with the Cards) Until they decide what they will do with the Steroid Boyz, Bonds, McGwire, Clemens, they have no records. All three were HOF if they stayed clean, but chose not to. Shame, really.
 
Next up for Judge, Triple Crown. Would be only the second in 54 years.
 
Maris was two time AL MVP, which you think would get him in, but he only had 275 home runs and was a .260 hitter in 12 seasons.
 
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