Aaron Judge: where will his 2022 Home Runs rank among 50 homer seasons by HR Rate (AB/HR) percent above league?

Aaron Judge through 112 Yankee games in 2022:

Player	HR	Year	AB/HR	AB/HR L	Dif	Pct Dif	SO/AB
Aaron Judge	45	2022	9.067	31.66	22.60	71.36%	29.41%

His "Pct Dif" or HR% above the league rate (AB/HR) of 71.36% would place Judge number 22 among the 47 seasons of at least 50 Home Runs (HR). Much better than his 2017 60.21% for his 52 Home Runs. If Judge reaches 50 HR in 2022, that would be the 10th such Yankee season, by far the most of any team:

	Year	L	Team	First	Last	bats	HR%	HRratePlay	HRrate_L	HR	AB	Lname
1	1920	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	92.56%	8.46	113.783	54	457	Ruth
2	1927	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	90.62%	9.00	95.939	60	540	Ruth
3	1921	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	89.81%	9.15	89.788	59	540	Ruth
4	1928	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	88.62%	9.93	87.199	54	536	Ruth
16	1956	AL	NYA	Mickey	Mantle	B	73.77%	10.25	39.076	52	533	Mantle
18	1961	AL	NYA	Mickey	Mantle	B	73.41%	9.52	35.791	54	514	Mantle
19	1961	AL	NYA	Roger	Maris	L	72.98%	9.67	35.791	61	590	Maris
	2022	AL	NYA	Aaron	Judge	R	71.36%	9.07	31.662	45	408	Judge
27	2007	AL	NYA	Alex	Rodriguez	R	68.95%	10.80	34.766	54	583	Rodriguez
43	2017	AL	NYA	Aaron	Judge	R	60.21%	10.42	26.194	52	542	Judge

The full list is below. Judge's HR rate is not likely to change much, so he will likely remain number 8 among the Yankee seasons.

Stop staring at Batting Average and Home Runs. Look at their percentage above the league. Sunday, January 30, 2022

We baseball fans are simple. That's a euphemism for stupid. We stare at numbers and marvel at them even when they are completely lacking context. The two traditional stats stared at the most are:

Batting Average: Hits divided by At Bats (AB).

Home Runs: uh, that's it. Just a total. Not even a simple average or rate like AB divided by HR to get the common sense stat of the average number of AB to hit a homer. Some may prefer using Plate Appearances (PA), which is mostly AB + Bases on Balls (BB) also known as Walks. The idea is the same.

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50 Home Runs: Home Run Rate (AB/HR) percentages above the league. Babe Ruth #1. Pete Alonso dead last.
Monday, February 14, 2022

What, you were expecting Giancarlo Stanton? His 59 HR in 2017 rank number 40 in HR% among the 46 seasons of at least 50 HR.

In 1920 the American League (AL) hit 369 Home Runs. Babe Ruth hit 54 of them. That's 14.6%. Ruth out homered every other team in both 1920 and 1927. If each batter's HR and AB had been subtracted from the league numbers as had been done in other HR rate posts here, Ruth's prodigious HR% would have been even higher...

HR% is the percentage that a player's Home Run rate (AB/HR; lower is better) is above the league Home Run rate that season...

In 2017 New York Yankee Aaron Judge set the rookie record for HR with 52. In 2019 New York Met rookie Pete Alonso broke that record with 53 HR. But even though Judge had HR% of only 60.21% (43 out the 46), Alonso was dead last with by far the lowest HR%: 55.29%.

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	Year	L	Team	First	Last	bats	HR%	HRratePlay	HRrate_L	HR	AB	Lname
1	1920	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	92.56%	8.46	113.783	54	457	Ruth
2	1927	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	90.62%	9.00	95.939	60	540	Ruth
3	1921	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	89.81%	9.15	89.788	59	540	Ruth
4	1928	AL	NYA	Babe	Ruth	L	88.62%	9.93	87.199	54	536	Ruth
5	1932	AL	PHA	Jimmie	Foxx	R	83.58%	10.09	61.429	58	585	Foxx
6	1938	AL	DET	Hank	Greenberg	R	80.51%	9.59	49.190	58	556	Greenberg
7	1998	NL	SLN	Mark	McGwire	R	78.97%	7.27	34.581	70	509	McGwire
8	1930	NL	CHN	Hack	Wilson	R	78.67%	10.45	48.983	56	585	Wilson
9	2001	NL	SFN	Barry	Bonds	L	78.15%	6.52	29.844	73	476	Bonds
10	1949	NL	PIT	Ralph	Kiner	R	77.74%	10.17	45.680	54	549	Kiner
11	1938	AL	BOS	Jimmie	Foxx	R	77.03%	11.30	49.190	50	565	Foxx
12	1947	NL	PIT	Ralph	Kiner	R	76.87%	11.08	47.894	51	565	Kiner
13	1947	NL	NY1	Johnny	Mize	L	76.01%	11.49	47.894	51	586	Mize
14	1965	NL	SFN	Willie	Mays	R	74.46%	10.73	42.016	52	558	Mays
15	1999	NL	SLN	Mark	McGwire	R	73.95%	8.02	30.768	65	521	McGwire
16	1956	AL	NYA	Mickey	Mantle	B	73.77%	10.25	39.076	52	533	Mantle
17	1990	AL	DET	Cecil	Fielder	R	73.73%	11.24	42.762	51	573	Fielder
18	1961	AL	NYA	Mickey	Mantle	B	73.41%	9.52	35.791	54	514	Mantle
19	1961	AL	NYA	Roger	Maris	L	72.98%	9.67	35.791	61	590	Maris
20	1998	NL	CHN	Sammy	Sosa	R	71.83%	9.74	34.581	66	643	Sosa
21	1996	AL	OAK	Mark	McGwire	R	71.80%	8.13	28.844	52	423	McGwire
	2022	AL	NYA	Aaron	Judge	R	71.36%	9.07	31.662	45	408	Judge
22	1977	NL	CIN	George	Foster	R	71.08%	11.83	40.895	52	615	Foster
23	2002	AL	CLE	Jim	Thome	L	70.76%	9.23	31.570	52	480	Thome
24	1997			Mark	McGwire	R	70.73%	9.63	32.909	58	540	McGwire
25	2010	AL	TOR	Jose	Bautista	R	69.95%	10.54	35.069	54	569	Bautista
26	2001	NL	CHN	Sammy	Sosa	R	69.79%	9.02	29.844	64	577	Sosa
27	2007	AL	NYA	Alex	Rodriguez	R	68.95%	10.80	34.766	54	583	Rodriguez
28	2006	NL	PHI	Ryan	Howard	L	67.98%	10.02	31.283	58	581	Howard
29	1999	NL	CHN	Sammy	Sosa	R	67.76%	9.92	30.768	63	625	Sosa
30	2013	AL	BAL	Chris	Davis	L	66.91%	11.02	33.299	53	584	Davis
31	1998	NL	SDN	Greg	Vaughn	R	66.86%	11.46	34.581	50	573	Vaughn
32	2006	AL	BOS	David	Ortiz	L	66.48%	10.33	30.832	54	558	Ortiz
33	2005	NL	ATL	Andruw	Jones	R	66.36%	11.49	34.155	51	586	Jones
34	1995	AL	CLE	Albert	Belle	R	66.01%	10.92	32.127	50	546	Belle
35	1997	AL	SEA	Ken	Griffey	L	65.63%	10.86	31.585	56	608	Griffey
36	1955	NL	NY1	Willie	Mays	R	65.62%	11.37	33.074	51	580	Mays
37	2007	NL	MIL	Prince	Fielder	L	65.36%	11.46	33.083	50	573	Fielder
38	2002	AL	TEX	Alex	Rodriguez	R	65.32%	10.95	31.570	57	624	Rodriguez
39	2001	NL	ARI	Luis	Gonzalez	L	64.20%	10.68	29.844	57	609	Gonzalez
40	2017	NL	MIA	Giancarlo	Stanton	R	64.02%	10.12	28.120	59	597	Stanton
41	1998	AL	SEA	Ken	Griffey	L	63.98%	11.30	31.379	56	633	Griffey
42	2001	AL	TEX	Alex	Rodriguez	R	61.02%	12.15	31.179	52	632	Rodriguez
43	2017	AL	NYA	Aaron	Judge	R	60.21%	10.42	26.194	52	542	Judge
44	1996	AL	BAL	Brady	Anderson	L	59.85%	11.58	28.844	50	579	Anderson
45	2000	NL	CHN	Sammy	Sosa	R	59.09%	12.08	29.532	50	604	Sosa
46	2019	NL	NYN	Pete	Alonso	R	55.29%	11.26	25.195	53	597	Alonso
	Year	L	Team	First	Last	bats	HR%	HRratePlay	HRrate_L	HR	AB	Lname
	2019				Maximum		92.56%	12.15	113.783	73	643
	1920				Minimum		55.29%	6.52	25.195	50	423

Aaron Judge 75% to season home run record for Yankees and American League. How does he compare to other Yankees? Thursday, August 11, 2022

Yesterday Aaron Judge hit season home run 45 in Yankee game 112 (71-41).

To hit 61 home runs in 162 games: 162/61=2.66

To be on pace through 112 games Judge should homer every 2.66 games: 42 home runs through 112 team games. So Judge is ahead of pace.

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Aaron Judge has played the field in only 76% of Yankee games in 2022, his walk year. Ohtani Lite? Sunday, August 7, 2022

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