Aaron Judge

[packs]

I don't deny the streak, I deny its significance re: MVP voting. The Indians have been in first place for months. If this was the 1914 Braves and they went on that tear, sure I can see that making a guy an MVP. But it was a first place team.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I think the vote will be Altuve, Judge and Ramirez.

[MattyC]

This thread needs more cards In the tradition of, "take your daughter to work day," I swung by the bank and took some cards to the office. Soon we will all be watching the game together.

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I think the vote will be Altuve, Judge and Ramirez.

+1, or Alteuve, Ramirez and Judge. Truly remarkable season for Judge--with his first half reminding me of Mantle in 1961 (check their first half stats on baseballreference.com)--and a really classy young man, but he all but vanished for a lengthy and potentially critical time.

Best wishes,

Larry

[MattyC]

In my morning procrastinations and sports reading/viewing, I found this graphic really interesting. Did not know this:

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by MattyC

In my morning procrastinations and sports reading/viewing, I found this graphic really interesting. Did not know this:

Man yankees are really loaded with sluggers...people forget Greg Bird before he was injured....he now has 3 homers in 3 straight days...

Judge has 51 homers.. almost getting to a point of 1 homer per every 3 games... Plus hitting over .280....he not dave kingman...hes got 21 homers since the all star break in about 234 at bats....you expecting to have 30 homers to avoid any stigma?.

no way 10 years from now anyone is going to say he had a bad month or 2 etc...they will just see the 51+ homers and a solid 1h and 2h of the year.

Mcgwire hit .212 in 99 ab bats in 1987 with 3 home runs in the month of August..anyone ever care about that...he hit 49 home runs......in july august and september he hit a total of 21 home runs...

[packs]

I don't know if Judge is the MVP, but I don't think the slump takes anything away from his season either. I mean, if he played well during the slump and ended the season with the same numbers, is he the MVP? He's still managed to hit 51 homers and nearly lead the league is most offensive categories.

[ullmandds]

aaaaaaand...judge's BA is creeping back up towards .300. To me...he could easily be mvp.