Friday, June 20, 2025

Aaron Judge has only 4,561 career PA through June 19, 2025 (age 33 season).

Photo of Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge

Position: Rightfielder

Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right

6-7282lb (201cm, 127kg)

Team: New York Yankees (majors)

Born: April 261992 (Age: 33-055d) in Linden, CA







Age of Aaron Judge: 33 years, 55 days.

The point here is that Aaron Judge, as great as he is, has had a short career, only 4,561 Plate Appearances (PA), that is unlikely to become a long career because he is already 33.

Maybe Judge will be productive to age 40.  But two of the players on the Yankees Mt. Rushmore were finished at 36:

Joe DiMaggio: cumulative PA through age 33 season: 6,255

Mickey Mantle: cumulative PA through age 33 season: 8,417

 
Baseball players only, no pitchers.

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164 batters meet this criteria:

https://stathead.com/tiny/fFkbm

For combined seasons, since 1903, age 33 or younger, Playing in the AL or NL, in the regular season, requiring Wins Above Replacement (WAR) >= 20 and Plate Appearances <= 4651, sorted by descending Plate Appearances.

Top 20 in PA:

Like Judge, these are still active: Seager, Devers, Bryant. Of those 3, only Bryant is 33.

Let's look at all 164 batters and sort on some fields.

Sorted on WAR (Note 7 Hall Of Famers in BOLD; 3 show only part of their careers from 1903 on):

Sort on OPS+:

In addition to Judge, active batters: Alvarez, Soto, Ohtani, Acuni, Tucker.

Finally, sorted on Home Runs:

Judge is way ahead. Final HR totals for:

Mize 359
Donaldson 279