The Major League Baseball season is rapidly closing in on the halfway point of the season. The pretenders give up on playoff contention and switch their vision to the future, the contenders prepare for their championship runs and those scenarios play out up to the trade deadline.
The All-Star game is rapidly approaching and barring MLB going bankrupt and out of business, MLBbro superstar Aaron Judge is representing the New York Yankees. After a horrible April, Judge leads the majors in home runs and is dominating in every other statistical category.
But one of the reasons why Judge is dominating the headlines with this production is that he has been healthy. How many would be surprised if there was another MLBbro out there that is sending home runs out nearly at the same rate as Judge albeit a smaller sample size? He’s on a smaller market team that is currently in the wild card chase…
Royce Lewis of the Minnesota Twins…
According to Codify through June 22nd Royce has played 86 games. Aaron Judge is the only player with more home runs during that time period. He has been so hot as of late that MLBbro.com’s Founder and fearless leader Rob Parker had this to say about Lewis in MLBbro.com’s “Home Boi Highlights” earlier this week.
After Lewis’ coming out party last postseason featured four home runs helping Minnesota snap a postseason losing streak spanning 18 games back to 2004, it seems when Royce isn’t injured, he is almost Aaron Judge lite…
Checkout our MLBbro’s resume over 87 games…
How impressive is the home run number? Just look at the list of home run leaders to start their careers in an 86 game period…
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PLAYER |
HOMERS THROUGH 86 CAREER GAMES |
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Mark McGwire |
31 |
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Rudy York |
31 |
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Jose Abreu |
29 |
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Cody Bellinger |
29 |
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Pete Alonso |
28 |
|
Royce Lewis |
27 |
The MLBbro history lesson does not stop here. Royce Lewis is on hallowed grounds in the MLB history books.
In his 300 plate appearances, our MLBbro ranks seventh all-time in MLB history with a .618 slugging percentage. The players above him are MLBbro Icon, Josh Gibson (.718), Babe Ruth (.690), Charlie Smith (.683), Ted Williams (.634), Lou Gehrig (.632) and Mules Suttles (.620).
Lewis had a stretch of ten homers in 16 games. Here’s the proof…
According to MLB’s Sarah Langs, we are approaching historical levels again…
The only players to accomplish that feat of ten homers or more in their first 16 games were Alex Rodriguez (12 in 2007), Mike Schmidt (12 in 1976) Aristides Aquino (11 in 2019) and Albert Pujols (11 in 2006).
If Royce can stay on the field, the debates on who is the best player in the game can begin between Aaron Judge and Royce Lewis.
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