Just to get it out of the way: if you think a season is a season and there should be no differentiation for 8 more games, which is 5.2%, then stop reading and don't bother sending a silly comment. This especially goes for the Yankee season Home Run (HR) recordS:
Babe Ruth: 60 in the 1927 154 game season
Roger Maris: 61 in the 1961 162 game season
Both the 1927 and 1961 Yankees played an early season tie game, so there records were:
1927: 110-44-1 (155)
1961: 109-53-1 (163)
Ruth hit number 60 in Yankee game 154.
Maris hit number 61 in Yankee game 163; #60 in game 159.
60 Home Runs in 154 games: Ruth yes. Maris no. Bonds, McGwire, Sosa? Monday, June 12, 2017
This matrix shows the pace for Ruth, Maris and 2022 Yankee Aaron Judge who hit HR 49 yesterday in Oakland in Yankee game 126 (78-48-0).
G/HR for Ruth, Maris and Judge (for 49 HR in 126 games): the pace to hit that number of HR.
To hit 60 HR in 154 games, the batter must average one HR every 2.56 ... games.
To hit 61 in 162 games, the batter must average one HR every 2.65 ... games.
Not much different.
Judge's 2022 HR pace is in between. Applying his pace to both 154 and 162 games, Judge would hit:
60 HR in 154 games
63 HR in 162 games.
Aaron Judge has not started 8 of 107 Yankee games in 2022: 7.5%. Roger Maris: 1.8% in 1961 when Yanks played 22 doubleheaders. Saturday, August 6, 2022
Judge has pinch hit in four of those 8 games he did not start. (no HR) ...
Judge also has started 18 games as DH: 17% of all Yankee games...
Judge has a chance to break the American League and Yankee season home run record of 61 set in 1961 by Roger Maris.
So, it's especially odd that Judge would not start in 7.5% of his team's games.
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