New York Yankees’ star player Aaron Judge has been busy this off-season. He became a free agent as soon as the regular season of 2022 ended. Then started a quest among the MLB teams as to who would sign AL’s most home runs leader. But after courting offers from various teams, Judge finally decided to stay with the Bronx Bombers. And now, the Captain of NYY recently appeared on top of yet another list that has sent baseball fans into a frenzy.
MLB on Twitter recently released a list of the Network’s top 10 right fielders. Among those, Aaron Judge came out on top. But what astonished the fans most was the placement of Judge’s name at the top of the chart and also the name of Padres’ shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr being on the list towards the very bottom.
Fans react to controversial Top 10 list
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After MLB posted a top 10 right fielders list on social media, most fans did not agree with many names that appeared on the list either because they didn’t deserve to be on it or because they weren’t the right fielders. Similarly, there were many others who named players who should’ve been on the list but were not.
Following are some of the reactions of the baseball fans watching Aaron Judge on top.
This is just disrespectful to Tatis lol
— Mohammad Zafar (@mohammadzafaryt) January 12, 2023
I feel like @MLB made a controversial list on purpose to stir controversy during the off-season. It is absolutely horrendous.
— Nathan McKinnon (@NathanMcKinnon) January 12, 2023
SpongeBob robbed.
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) January 12, 2023
Tatis will have more home runs than judge this season
— PADRESRAZAMEMES (@padresrazamemez) January 12, 2023
Get Tatis out of there lol
— 🇺🇸 Reyes Armando Moronta (PARODY) (@not_onions) January 12, 2023
You did not just rank Bryce Harper third
— Phillies Superfan (0-0) (@PhillyPhan96) January 12, 2023
not sure how CF Springer made it to the top RF list but i shall take it lol
— Barbatrix (@Barbatrix1) January 12, 2023
Tatis is 5x better than Judge
— Danny (@TatisMVPszn) January 12, 2023
Right field has to be the most stacked position in MLB, so this makes Judge the de facto top hitter in baseball.
— Matt Aaron (@BronxLaugher) January 12, 2023
Sure the Yankees got swept by the Astros; but now imagine that team with Aaron Judge 😮
— Zap Rowsdower (@JumpnJehosafat) January 12, 2023
2-5 are better RF than Judge. I’ll assume Tatis being there is parody. Good one 😀
— Dodger Hugie (@DodgerHugie) January 12, 2023
You did not just rank Tatis 9th
He's a top 2 right fielder!!— V-Twins (@VTwins2008) January 12, 2023
Aaron Judge was the number 1 OF in baseball last year, defensively, and he never played a game in LF😂😂
…levels.
— 🇵🇷 (@XanakinSkywok_) January 12, 2023
Tatis is better than all of these lol
— Razzor (@Razzor18K) January 12, 2023
Judge is not better than Mookie and Harper lol
— Ur #1 wr got put on Diggs Island (@DaddyDakOwnsU) January 12, 2023
They just paid him to play CF 🤷🏼♂️
— Dan 🤷🏼♂️ (@NYCommenter) January 12, 2023
Aside from questioning Tatis Jr and Judge’s positioning on the list, one of the fans said Bryce Harper shouldn’t be in third position of the list. Whereas one fan even said that the list of the top three players was correct. But after that, the network started to throw players in on it.
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Is Aaron Judge going to break his record?
Last year, the New York Yankees Captain Aaron Judge made history by hitting 62 home runs in the regular season. With that, he broke the record of legendary Roger Maris’ record of most home runs in a single season. Doing that was notably not easy. But doing so for the second time in a row is even more difficult.
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According to the latest projections from Fan Graphs, All Rise in the upcoming regular season would not be hitting even 50, but only 46. Although 46 is not less, considering the standards set by Judge, the fans would want to see him at 50 again this year.
How many home runs do you think Judge will hit this year? Let us know in the comments below.
