Yankees' Aaron Judge breaks 6-way tie on all-time MLB leaderboard
The 6-foot-7 slugger does a lot of things well.
Yankees' Aaron Judge breaks 6-way tie on all-time MLB leaderboard originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . It's always fascinating to see where Aaron Judge ranks on various MLB all-time leaderboards.
The New York Yankees ' slugger is one of the best hitters ever, but he arrived in the majors later than most, so some of his counting stats are a little lower than you might expect. One of those categories where that's definitely true: walks. Judge took a base on balls on Monday night against the San Francisco Giants , the 818th of his career.
That ranks Judge 254th in MLB history, but maybe most entertaining is that in drawing that single walk, Judge broke a six-way tie at 817 career walks. The other five guys are all retired. The guys Judge had been tied with?
Fielder Jones, Ryan Klesko, Carlos Pena, Nick Swisher and Dixie Walker. MORE: Terrance Gore's son honors dad with perfect first pitch Klesko, Pena and Swisher are all likely known at least a bit by modern baseball fans, as they played relatively recently. Swisher even played part of his career for the Yankees.