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Originally Posted by dlphg9
I wouldn't say one 200+ k season makes him someone known for striking out 200+ times a year.
Speaking of Judge. The ****ing dude is just hitting out of his God damn mind right now and is easily the #1 player in baseball. We're right at 1/3 of the way through the season and he is hitting .395/.488/.746/1.234. He's hitting like roided out Barry Bonds right now. ****, you could say what he's doing is more impressive than what Bonds is doing, because Judge isn't gonna have 200 walks a season to inflate his OBP.
Judge's BABIP is ****ing .467. So basically if he puts it in play he's almost got a 50/50 chance of it being a hit. An entire 1/3 of a season is over and he's got a BABIP that high.
Right now he's 73 points higher than his best BA, OBP is 30 points higher than his best, and his slg is 45 points higher than his career high.
Is he juicing?
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Judge did strike out 171 times last year, but the thing with him is when he doesn't strike out, literally over half the time he's getting on base. You normally don't want anyone striking out that much but he does so much damage in the other ABs it's worth it. That's a tall mountain for anyone else to climb. The Royals have always favored contact and for a small market team that's a good path to take because there's a lot of track record of that leading to success. I still think the Astros leaned in more on making contact after we beat them in 15 and it led to some of their success.