Hulking metahuman Aaron Judge is demolishing baseball by demolishing baseballs. A foolproof strategy, to be sure, and one at which he’s excelled mightily, emphasis on might.
Last night, Judge clubbed a dinger with the highest exit velocity of the Statcast era, 121.1 MPH.
Today, at Yankee Stadium, Judge rendered another death sentence onto a poor, unsuspecting baseball, socking it do deep left off Orioles righty Logan Verrett:
Aaron Judge just hit a 495 foot home run. FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE pic.twitter.com/mGdZWxyPf1
— That Dude (@cjzer0) June 11, 2017
Good lord, that’s monstrous. “Longest homer in the majors this season”-monstrous:
.@TheJudge44's HR had a proj. distance of 495 feet (per @statcast), the longest home run in the Majors this season (prev. Jake Lamb, 481).
— Yankees PR Dept. (@YankeesPR) June 11, 2017
So, the hardest-hit and the farthest-hit, on back-to-back days, and he’s already at 20 bombs. Even Judge’s teammates are amazed:
Yankees dugout reaction is straight amazement pic.twitter.com/4DCzsmtY0w
— That Dude (@cjzer0) June 11, 2017
At this point, Aaron Judge is basically a superhero. What can’t he do? I’d bet on him against The Freeze right now. He’d find a way.
Judge hit the ball 118.6 mph. He now has 5 of the top 6 exit velocities in MLB this year. #Yankees #Orioles
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) June 11, 2017
Judge is a fantastic hitter, he’s just 25, he performs amazing feats on what is just about a literal daily basis at this point. He also plays for the resurgent Yankees, so it’s probably best to enjoy him now before you’re contractually obligated to hate him later.
Unless you’re a Yankees fan now, in which case, we all hate you.
[Update: he hit another home run.]