Aaron Judge has passed Roger Maris’ AL and Yankee record for homeruns in a season, hitting his 62nd tonight.

The right-handed, free-agent to be, slugger hit his 61st record tying homerun off of Tim Mayza of the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto Wednesday of last week. And tonight, he passed Maris with #62.

While he is still 11 shy of Barry Bonds’ MLB record (tainted), Judge still hits the impressive AL record mark. While some may think that this is incredible, I am in the boat of – no one really considers a single league record anything worth noting, especially when 6 other season totals stand between Judge’s current 62 mark and Bonds’ record. If you break a record in the MLB, you are breaking an entire leagues record, not just half of the teams.

I am not taking anything away from Judge, because in todays non-steroid era baseball this is an incredible feat. I am taking away from the media coverage of it, and blowing it out of proportion as if 62 is the MLB record, and making it a significantly bigger deal than it needs to be. I do not understand the hype and coverage of it, but that is not up for me to determine why or the importance of it.

The commentator had a quote along the lines of “no one has hit more”, ummm pretty sure Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa all did.

None the less…Congrats to Aaron Judge on his achievement of 62 Homeruns (so far) in this season. Keep swinging to 74 for the record.

Till Next Time,
Trevor