Yankees' Aaron Judge is making the wrong kind of history
The big slugger isn't doing much slugging.
Yankees' Aaron Judge is making the wrong kind of history originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Aaron Judge isn't doing much slugging at the moment.
The New York Yankees ' 6-foot-7 superstar is making his own kind of individual history that he surely wouldn't want to make. He's on the worst 40-plate appearance stretch of his MLB career. Over that span, Judge has a .
348 OPS. Considering that Judge has had plenty of stretches where his batting average is that number, the fact that it's his OPS right now over this span isn't ideal at all. Aaron Judge is 4-for-35 in the last nine games Judge's .
348 OPS in 40 plate appearances during those nine games is the worst stretch of his career over 40 plate appearances pic. twitter. com/YEVlbezvBN ā Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) May 23, 2026 MORE: Why Cam Schlittler used BABIP as a verb In the grand scheme of things, this almost certainly isn't something to be concerned about.