CHICAGO — Yankees manager Aaron Boone looked up at the scoreboard during a recent game and was stunned seeing a list of the majors’ OPS leaders. He knew Aaron Judge was first, but seeing his 1.100-plus OPS was .200 higher than the next highest blew him away.
“Mind boggling,” Boone said Saturday before the Yankees beat the White Sox 5-3 in 11 innings for their seventh win in a row.
Judge also has a nice lead in his chase for a first batting crown, and if he gets to the finish line the crown will bring a very rare feat:
A batting title with 40-plus home runs.
That’s been accomplished only 16 times by 13 players, the last being Miguel Cabrera in 2012 and 2013 for the Tigers.
“He’s just an unbelievable player and a guy that I really haven’t felt has been hot at any point in the sea