A slight bit of nice news: Rookie Aaron Judge hit 50th HR yesterday

[jmowreader]

http://m.yankees.mlb.com/news/article/256028138/yankees-aaron-judge-sets-mlb-rookie-hr-record/

The previous rookie record was held by Mark McGuire, who hit 49. Judge entered the game with 48 on the season, and hit two.

Yankees players to hit 50 HR in one season while with the Yankees (counts from baseball-reference.com):

Babe Ruth: four seasons, 1920 (54), 1921 (59), 1927 (60) and 1928 (54)
Mickey Mantle: two seasons, 1956 (52) and 1961 (54)
Roger Maris: 1961 (61)
Alex Rodriguez: 2007 (54). (As a Texas Ranger he also did it in 2001 (52) and 2002 (57).)
Aaron Judge: 2017 (season still ongoing)

[Sanity Claws]

1. That's a nice select group to be a member of

Very impressive start to what looks like a future stellar career.

[jmowreader]

2. I don't know if he can do it, but I'd like to see him hit five more

This will put him ahead of A-roid.

[Number9Dream]

3. In addition, everyone says what a nice, classy young man he is

[Yavin4]

4. He's a harbinger of bad news for the NFL

He's built like a Tight End. In fact, he's slightly bigger than Rob Gronkowski, and Judge played TE in college. But, he chose to purse professional baseball instead. This may be a developing pattern for talented young athletes who in previous generations eschewed baseball for the NFL.

Why run the risk of CTE when you can have a more lucrative career in MLB?