{"id":99291,"date":"2025-09-27T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=99291"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:08:48","slug":"yankees-aaron-judge-on-absurd-run-not-seen-in-yanks-history-since-mickey-mantles-legendary-1961-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=99291","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge on absurd run not seen in Yanks history since Mickey Mantle&#8217;s legendary 1961 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yankees&#8217; Aaron Judge on absurd run not seen in Yanks history since Mickey Mantle&#8217;s legendary 1961 season originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, it feels like the MVP Award has slipped away from New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And while there&#8217;s no reason to hate on Cal Raleigh, it&#8217;s also incredibly ironic, because Judge is as hot as he&#8217;s ever been in his baseball life.<\/p>\n<p>Over Judge&#8217;s last 15 games, these are his stats, via NY Yankees Stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.447 batting average<\/li>\n<li>8 home runs<\/li>\n<li>13 RBI<\/li>\n<li>.606 OBP<\/li>\n<li>1.000 SLG<\/li>\n<li>1.606 OPS<\/li>\n<li>20 runs<\/li>\n<li>20 walks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Judge is the first Yankee with eight homers and 20 walks in a 15-game span since Mickey Mantle in 1961, according to that same post from NY Yankees Stats.<\/p>\n<p>That 1961 season may have been Mantle&#8217;s best. It&#8217;s when he set the switch-hitter single-season homer record of 54 (since broken by Raleigh this season).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Mariners&#8217; Josh Naylor is 4th player in MLB history with this stolen base feat<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mantle for a while was keeping up with Roger Maris, but eventually Maris pulled away to hit a then-AL record 61 homers.<\/p>\n<p>But even amid that, Mantle was as good a hitter as anyone on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Judge is now, the best hitter on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers over any span of games are absurd. And really, eight homers and 20 walks in 15 games is almost unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>But not for Judge. He does things that are hard to believe, and he somehow makes them look easy.<\/p>\n<p>There really isn&#8217;t anyone else in baseball like Aaron Judge, MVP or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Reds break unbreakable streak with huge moment in NL Wild Card race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big No. 99 is on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":99300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[112,2297,314,2046,2491,40,3862],"class_list":["post-99291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-josh-naylor","tag-mariners","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-roger-maris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees&#039; Aaron Judge on absurd run not seen in Yanks history since Mickey Mantle&#039;s legendary 1961 season - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=99291\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees&#039; 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