Aaron Judge: 16 SO (80%) in 20 AB in round one; BB/SO .250. Season BB/SO: .611

Aaron Judge is a Strike Out (SO) machine. Even more than he is a Base on Balls (BB) machine. Judge led the major league with 208 SO and led the American Conference with 127 BB. Joey Votto led the NC with 134 BB.

In the five game first round series against Cleveland, which his Yankees won, Judge had one hit, a double, in 20 At Bats (AB), plus four BB. Judge had 16 SO. Judge SO in 80% of his AB. His BB/SO (4/16) was .250. For the season it was .611 (127/208).

Strike Outs to Walks Ratio ... for Batters! Sunday, March 29, 2009

If the strike outs to walks ratio provides useful information about pitchers, why not for batters?  For good batters, maybe it should be reversed: the walks to strike outs ratio.

In a previous post I recommended that pitchers be examined on OPS+, a tool to evaluate batters.

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BB to SO ratio for batters; Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron almost dead even. Tuesday, February 7, 2017

BB to SO ratio, HR >= 493. Tuesday, February 7, 2017

41 players hit at least 30 home runs in 2017. Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Aaron Judge hit 52 Home Runs (HR) in 2017. Let's see how his BB/SO ratio fits in among the 41 players with at least 30 HR.

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Rk	Player	HR	BB/SO	BB	SO	PA	AB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	Tm	Lg
15	Joey Votto	36	1.614	134	83	707	559	.320	.454	.578	1.032	CIN	NL
22	Mike Trout	33	1.044	94	90	507	402	.306	.442	.629	1.071	LAA	AL
28	Anthony Rizzo	32	1.011	91	90	691	572	.273	.392	.507	.899	CHC	NL
8	Edwin Encarnacion	38	.782	104	133	669	554	.258	.377	.504	.881	CLE	AL
22	Josh Donaldson	33	.685	76	111	496	415	.270	.385	.559	.944	TOR	AL
22	Francisco Lindor	33	.645	60	93	723	651	.273	.337	.505	.842	CLE	AL
15	Paul Goldschmidt	36	.639	94	147	665	558	.297	.404	.563	.966	ARI	NL
2	Aaron Judge	52	.611	127	208	678	542	.284	.422	.627	1.049	NYY	AL
12	Nolan Arenado	37	.585	62	106	680	606	.309	.373	.586	.959	COL	NL
20	George Springer	34	.577	64	111	629	548	.283	.367	.522	.889	HOU	AL
33	Jake Lamb	30	.572	87	152	635	536	.248	.357	.487	.844	ARI	NL
8	Justin Smoak	38	.570	73	128	637	560	.270	.355	.529	.883	TOR	AL
20	Brian Dozier	34	.553	78	141	705	617	.269	.357	.496	.853	MIN	AL
8	Logan Morrison	38	.544	81	149	601	512	.246	.353	.516	.868	TBR	AL
1	Giancarlo Stanton	59	.521	85	163	692	597	.281	.376	.631	1.007	MIA	NL
6	Nelson Cruz	39	.500	70	140	645	556	.288	.375	.549	.924	SEA	AL
12	Charlie Blackmon	37	.481	65	135	725	644	.331	.399	.601	1.000	COL	NL
33	Steven Souza	30	.469	84	179	617	523	.239	.351	.459	.810	TBR	AL
30	Eric Thames	31	.460	75	163	551	469	.247	.359	.518	.877	MIL	NL
12	Marcell Ozuna	37	.444	64	144	679	613	.312	.376	.548	.924	MIA	NL
33	Lucas Duda	30	.444	60	135	491	423	.217	.322	.496	.818	TOT	ML
6	Cody Bellinger	39	.438	64	146	548	480	.267	.352	.581	.933	LAD	NL
22	Manny Machado	33	.435	50	115	690	630	.259	.310	.471	.782	BAL	AL
30	Travis Shaw	31	.435	60	138	606	538	.273	.349	.513	.862	MIL	NL
3	J.D. Martinez	45	.414	53	128	489	432	.303	.376	.690	1.066	TOT	ML
19	Justin Upton	35	.411	74	180	635	557	.273	.361	.540	.901	TOT	AL
33	Domingo Santana	30	.410	73	178	607	525	.278	.371	.505	.875	MIL	NL
15	Jay Bruce	36	.410	57	139	617	555	.254	.324	.508	.832	TOT	ML
33	Mark Reynolds	30	.394	69	175	593	520	.267	.352	.487	.839	COL	NL
33	Kyle Schwarber	30	.393	59	150	486	422	.211	.315	.467	.782	CHC	NL
33	Wil Myers	30	.389	70	180	649	567	.243	.328	.464	.792	SDP	NL
5	Joey Gallo	41	.383	75	196	532	449	.209	.333	.537	.869	TEX	AL
4	Khris Davis	43	.374	73	195	652	566	.247	.336	.528	.864	OAK	AL
8	Mike Moustakas	38	.362	34	94	598	555	.272	.314	.521	.835	KCR	AL
15	Ryan Zimmerman	36	.349	44	126	576	524	.303	.358	.573	.930	WSN	NL
22	Gary Sanchez	33	.333	40	120	525	471	.278	.345	.531	.876	NYY	AL
33	Scott Schebler	30	.312	39	125	531	473	.233	.307	.484	.791	CIN	NL
22	Jose Abreu	33	.294	35	119	675	621	.304	.354	.552	.906	CHW	AL
28	Jonathan Schoop	32	.246	35	142	675	622	.293	.338	.503	.841	BAL	AL
30	Adam Duvall	31	.229	39	170	647	587	.249	.301	.480	.782	CIN	NL
33	Rougned Odor	30	.198	32	162	651	607	.204	.252	.397	.649	TEX	AL

Not bad. Judge is number 9 in BB/SO. The eight above Judge all hit fewer than 40 HR. The rank column is for HR, including ties. Not surprisingly, Joey Votto has the best BB/SO ratio. Trout and Rizzo are the only others with more BB than SO. Ouch.

Among players with OPS greater than 1.000 J.D. Martinez has the lowest BB/SO: .414, number 26.

The most horrific BB/SO: Rougned Odor: .198. 32 BB and 162 SO. That is mind boggling. In addition to the fewest BB among these 41 batters with at least 30 HR, Odor has the lowest BA, OBP, SLG, OPS.