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Judge Aims for Unprecedented 5th 50-HR Season
20 May
Summary
- Aaron Judge could achieve a fifth 50-homer season.
- Only four players have reached 50 home runs four times.
- Judge is currently on pace to hit 54 home runs.
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has an opportunity to achieve a milestone never before reached in Major League Baseball history.
Judge is currently on pace to hit 54 home runs this season, according to MLB.com. If he succeeds, it will mark his fifth season with at least 50 home runs.
This level of consistent power hitting is exceptionally rare. Only four players in MLB history have ever recorded four seasons with 50 or more home runs. Aaron Judge is one of these four elite sluggers, alongside Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire.
Should Judge reach this 50-homer threshold again, his fifth such season would surpass all previous records. Other notable sluggers like Alex Rodriguez achieved this feat three times, while no other player has managed it more than twice. Barry Bonds' only 50-homer season coincided with his record-breaking 73-homer year, and Henry Aaron never hit 50 home runs in a single season.
