Aaron Judge's Odds of Winning AL MVP & Hitting Milestones

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00:00Aaron Judge to an American League MVP for the third time in the last four years.

00:05Minus 1,000 to lead the bigs in home runs this year.

00:09Minus 140 to win the Triple Crown.

00:12Plus 145 to have a 400 batting average at the time of the All-Star break.

00:19Plus 850, a couple of new markets opening up.

00:22To have a 400 average the entirety of this MLB season is 41 to 1.

00:28So, DRS, the buy or sell question is not which of these bets do you like the most.

00:32The buy or sell, Aaron Judge is the greatest right-handed hitter in MLB history.

00:38No, well, see, that's false right off the bat, so I'm going to sell that.

00:41Is he an unbelievably talented hitter right now, on pace to do some damage and be a Hall of Famer?

00:46Absolutely he is.

00:47And we just saw him in an MVP market that's basically five to six weeks old.

00:52He's a minus 1,000, which means if he twists his ankle in this two and a half weeks,

00:55he can't be the MVP and probably won't have those statistics, shows you how talented he is.

01:00And also, what's going on in the American League and why can't anybody press this guy for a minus 1,000 to start?

01:04Let's understand from Aaron Judge what he's doing.

01:07The expectations, again, from a premier power hitter is he is going to take a lot of strikeouts

01:12because how do you get power?

01:13Swing with all your might all three times.

01:15He's hitting for average end power, which is astounding, to the point of over 400.

01:19This is something like a Stephen Kwan would do, like,

01:21hey, man, all I do is hit singles and I'm really fast so I can beat out ground balls in the infield.

01:25That's not Aaron Judge.

01:26What he's doing is crazy.

01:27But also understand this.

01:28You take a look at a guy like, you know, the best right-handed hitters of all time

01:31and use a guy like Albert Pujols.

01:33You look at Aaron Judge, 300-plus home runs.

01:35I don't know the exact number.

01:36I had it a little bit up this morning.

01:37Yeah.

01:377.03 for Pujols.

01:397.03.

01:40You take a look at the RBI market for him.

01:422,200 RBIs.

01:43Like, he's got a long way to go to be the best of all time.

01:47Is he the best right-handed hitter in the game right now?

01:49Yeah, you could probably say that.

01:50But all time, we're getting way ahead of ourselves.

01:53He's got to do this for five, six, seven, eight, nine more years,

01:56what he's doing, to catch some of the great right-handed bats of all time.