A slow start? Yankees' Aaron Judge on pace to break his own AL record

TL;DR

Aaron Judge is experiencing a slow start but is heating up, currently on pace to break his own AL record with 68 home runs this season.

Key points

Aaron Judge has started the season slow.
He is currently on pace for 68 home runs this season.
Judge is competing with Mike Trout in recent games.

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It kind of feels like Aaron Judge has started the season slow.

But it's also clear he's starting to heat up, as he went back and forth with Mike Trout in the New York Yankees' series this week against the Los Angeles Angels.

And now, he's on pace to break his own American League record.

Through Thursday, Judge is on pace for 68 home runs this season.

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Judge previously set the AL single-season home run record in 2022 when he hit 62.

That, of course, broke the sacred Roger Maris of 61 homers in a season.

And Maris, of course, had broken Babe Ruth's 60 homers in a season.

Judge is only hitting .246, which is part of why it might feel slow after he won the American League batting title a season ago.

It was a lower average a week ago, though. Judge's arrow is pointing upward.

And when he starts hitting home runs with a frequency like this, you know things are about to become pretty darn exciting for the Yankees for a while.