Yankees captain Aaron Judge is on the doorstep of a milestone. With his next dinger, he’ll reach 300 for his career, and he’ll also be the fastest player in MLB history to reach that milestone in terms of games played. Late Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner’s days of holding onto that mark are numbered .
I watched all 299 of Judge’s home runs (thank you, Baseball Savant), with the goal of finding the 10 most aesthetically pleasing dingers of Judge’s career. To be clear , I’m not talking about his most important, clutch, or record-breaking milestone moonshots; the criteria exclusively involves the most rewatchable and visually-pleasing home runs. Such rundowns are definitely available elsewhere! His homer in his first at-bat , his walk-off shot off Jordan Romano, No.
62 , and more are all absolutely enjoyable. These are just the 10 that jumped out to me. For this batch, I made sure to include a variety of types of home runs and spread out the time frame out so we see a gradually development in how Judge’s swing has changed throughout his time in The Show.
I didn’t want to just list his 10 longest home runs; I tried to incorporate other factors like the coolness of the swing, the quality of contact off the bat, and whether the trajectory was interesting. I also considered how the home run played on television, whether the camera could follow the ball, the announcer’s reaction, cutaways of fans, and so on. It’s not super deep.
So away we go with the 10 of the most ae.