Aaron Judge -- how many will he hit, prediction thread

[Peter_Spaeth]

Game is on, guesses closed.

[NiceDocter]

55 it’s the law

[D. Bergin]

Well, the Yankees moved him to the lead-off spot and he hit number 52 and got two hits. Rest of the team got 1 hit and dropped another game while potentially being in the midst of what I can only guess has to be one of the greatest 2nd half collapses in baseball history.

[Shoeless Moe]

I don't follow the Yankees, but I am intrigued by how much their lead has shrunk on the Rays.

Are they really gonna to choke it away? They were up like 15 games at the All Star break.

What is the reason?

They'll still get in as a Wild Card, but momentum going into the Playoffs is the key to winning it all in the PostSeason. You go in flat, you won't last.........unless you have fairly dominant #1-2 SP's. Do they?

Overall Dodgers probably taking it again, but injuries could change that.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

I don't follow the Yankees, but I am intrigued by how much their lead has shrunk on the Rays.

Are they really gonna to choke it away? They were up like 15 games at the All Star break.

What is the reason?

They'll still get in as a Wild Card, but momentum going into the Playoffs is the key to winning it all in the PostSeason. You go in flat, you won't last.........unless you have fairly dominant #1-2 SP's. Do they?

Overall Dodgers probably taking it again, but injuries could change that.

Not to be a cynical Yankees fan...but it's looking ugly, and almost inevitable. It's not likely, but it probably wouldn't surprise me if they even blew a Wildcard spot.

They have a bunch of all or nothing guys in their lineup...who, outside of Judge, has been mostly nothing since the All-Star break. Take Judge out, and they're hitting about .200 as a team for the last month and a half or so.

Severino suffered another big injury, Nestor Cortes got hurt, and the Yankees traded one of their most reliable starters to the Cardinals, for an injured, glove first, little power, high strikeout 4th or 5th outfielder.

Jordan Montgomery by the way, since being sent to the Cardinals for a guy who might eventually be a slight upgrade over Aaron Hicks: 5-0, 1.47 ERA, 0.927 WHIP

BTW, they traded Montgomery after they already knew Severino was hurt and Cortes was going to run into innings restrictions very soon. They replaced him AND Severino in the pitching lineup by giving up a bunch of prospects to the A's, for a guy who had a 5+ ERA, pitching outside of Oakland.

Frankie Montas is now 0-2 in 5 starts with a 7.01 ERA and a 1.519 WHIP...since leaving the sweet confines of The Coliseum.

Oh, by the way, one of the "throw-ins" for Montas. JP Sears. He's already got 5 starts, while sporting a 2.63 ERA for the A's.

I could probably go on and on. Not one of Brian Cashman's better seasons as the GM this year.

I'm also saying this fully aware there's not many outside of the Tri-State area who are going to shed any tears for the downfall of the New York Yankees.

[RCMcKenzie]

He's already at 53. I hope he signs with Houston.

[D. Bergin]

Judge hit 53 and they finally got a good 5 innings out of Montas.

Judge got 3 of the Yankees 6 hits, accounted for both runs and had the only extra base hits for the team (HR, Double).

I don't think I've seen as literal a version of a position player carrying a team on their backs, as I've seen from Judge this season. At least not in recent Yankee history.

As the overall results have shown in the 2nd half of the season, it's not really sustainable.