You may have heard this before, but Aaron Judge is good. Having already won two AL MVPs in his career (a number that arguably should be three), Judge has gotten off to another ridiculous start in 2025. Through Monday, he is currently hitting .414/.500/.783. At times, it’s felt like he’s been a little light on the home runs this year, but he’s also tied for the MLB lead in those. It’s more that he’s just also getting so many hits of other varieties.

Either here at Pinstripe Alley or across the baseball writing world, you’ll find no shortage of analysis of why he’s so good, but I’m afraid I offer no ability to truly dig deep into that. Instead, I offer the chance to continue to marvel and cackle at what Judge has done so far in 2025. With that in mind, here are some fun facts about Aaron Judge’s season to this point.

(Note: Again, stats are through Monday’s game.)

If you go to a player’s Baseball Reference page (like perhaps Judge’s) and you at their stats, you may see some numbers bolded in a given year, or in some cases an entire career. That is referred to as “black ink” and what it means is that said player is the league leader in that stat — bolded and italics mean overall MLB leader. If you look at Judge’s page, at least as of Monday, you will find black ink in rWAR, runs, hits, home runs, RBI, BA, OBP, SLG, OPS, OPS+, rOBA, RBat+, total bases, and intentional walks. I don’t even know what all of those are, but I do know that’s pretty good.
Judge’s slugging percentage (.783) is higher than the OPS (on-base plus slugging) of all but four Yankee teammates.
His .783 slugging is better than the OPS of all but two entire teams (Yankees and Dodgers).
His .414 batting average is currently equal to Pablo Reyes’ OPS.
If Judge had not hit a single home run this season, his batting average would still be .325, his OBP .425, and his slugging still .427.
Those updated numbers would rank second, first, and seventh respectively on the Yankees.
Judge is tied for the MLB lead in home runs with Kyle Schwarber. He has a greater than 100-point lead on him in all of BA, OBP, and SLG.
Judge’s 65 hits are 23% of the 282 that the entire Chicago White Sox team has.
The worst he’s done against an opponent this season is going 1-for-10 in the series against the Padres. He still hit a homer and walked twice, meaning his OPS against them this year is .650, which is only 58 points below the overall MLB average this season.
The Yankees currently lead the league in home runs with 74. Without Judge, they’d drop to third, which doesn’t sound massive, but consider that they’re currently 10 clear of the Dodgers’ second-place total of 64.
The Yankees are currently two behind the Red Sox for the MLB lead in hits. Take away Judge’s 65, and they’re in 25th.
With 123, Judge leads MLB in total bases, 17 ahead of second place Corbin Carroll. If you were 17 behind Carroll, you’d be out of the top five.
If you do the same thing with Judge’s 93 times on base compared to second place Pete Alonso’s 80, 13 below that would just barely crack the top 20.

Frankly, if you look hard enough, there are probably plenty of more fun facts that you could come up with. Once again I say, Aaron Judge is good at baseball.