Aaron Judge's Hot Start: Will He Hit 60+ Home Runs?

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00:00Oh, look, it's a historical start, to say the least, for Aaron Judge, who's on pace

00:11to hit over 100 home runs.

00:13We know that's not going to happen, but you've got to start asking the question as to how

00:17many home runs this guy can actually hit is 70, even in the picture at this point.

00:24I wonder if we're playing that game of buy or sell soon, but let's just play the game

00:29that seems the fairest at this point, which would be 60 home runs.

00:32George, buy or sell, Aaron Judge will hit 60-plus home runs this season.

00:39Is this a buy or sell?

00:43Talk about earlier in the show, last year, I said Yankee fans were actually booing him

00:47off the field because he was terrible in April.

00:49He was just bad.

00:50He wasn't locked in, and he had Juan Soto hitting in front of him, and I think he had

00:54one home run in April.

00:55He ended up at 58.

00:57I mean, you can't extrapolate, but he's got to go through a hot start now, and before

01:02the ball even starts flying out of Yankee Stadium, right?

01:05One thing I've noticed, and I'm a Judge fan, a Yankee fan, he's pulling the ball

01:08of power from the beginning.

01:09Usually in April, May, it's all the opposite way, as he locks himself in, which a lot of

01:13players do.

01:14Now he's having no problem pulling the ball, hitting rockets here.

01:18Yeah.

01:19Yeah, I'm buying this.

01:20I am fully buying this.

01:22I think this is an almost an every year thing.

01:24I think the only way he doesn't do this is one of two things.

01:26One, he gets hurt.

01:27You know, obviously, we can say that about everything, right?

01:29He gets hurt.

01:30He's not going to do it.

01:31And two, I think it will be a matter of time until the pitchers go, no, not you.

01:35Go to first, son.

01:36Go to first.

01:37Let Jazz Chisholm beat you.

01:39Let Austin Wells beat you.

01:40Paul Goldsman, who's ever batting fourth.

01:41All right.

01:42We're not letting Judge beat us here, and we've seen managers do that over and over

01:45again.

01:46Milwaukee did it last weekend.

01:47They put Judge on first base with nobody out.

01:49Nope.

01:50Had enough of you.

01:51And we saw it last year with John Schneider, the manager of the Blue Jays.

01:54I think he had a great quote at the end of the game.

01:56I was tired of watching him swing.

01:57All right.

01:58Go to first base.

01:59And I think that is going to happen eventually more and more often.

02:01Yeah.

02:02I do, too.

02:03And I'm going to sell this because I'm betting on that, and I'll always bet against health.

02:08And it has nothing to do with Judge, but Judge being out for two weeks eliminates this.

02:13So I am going to sell.

02:15It's not to say that if we repose this question with 40, I'd buy.

02:19If we repose the question with 50, I probably would buy, too.

02:2260, is that still a historical number?

02:24I know that he's done it.

02:26Would I be excited to see him chase 70?

02:28Of course.

02:29Who wouldn't be?

02:30But I would bet against that.

02:31It's just a very high number, and everything has to go right for it to happen.

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