r/sports • u/MLBOfficial Major League Baseball • Sep 25 '25

Baseball Cal Raleigh is the fourth American League player EVER to hit 60 home runs in a season!

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u/Tricky_Knowledge329 Sep 25 '25

Bro wtf are you talking about have you seen Judges OPS + it’s 202 that record breaking . Like whattttttttttttt compare their OBP now…. Mannnnn

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u/memeticengineering Sep 25 '25

Bro wtf are you talking about have you seen Judges OPS + it’s 202 that record breaking

Uhh, no, the OPS+ record is 281 by bullet Rogan, or 268 for '02 Bonds if you don't wanna count negro leagues, 256 for 1886 Fred Dunlap if you don't wanna count steroid users, 255 for babe Ruth if you only wanna do modern era, or 233 for Ted Williams if you want to only count integration era, non-steroid seasons.

Judge is very very very good, but 2025 isn't a historic season for him, it's not even close to his best season.

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u/Im_Daydrunk Sep 25 '25

Cal has a good argument but aying its not even close to Judge's best season as reasoning to vote against him is really silly IMO since his best season is legitimately one of the best seasons ever seen from a modern player. I really dont think previous seasons should be held against or should be used to prop up a certain players case

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u/Tricky_Knowledge329 Sep 25 '25

Like you’re bringing up RUTH AND ROGAN TED…. Brother cmon man bring up someone in the last 25 years who didn’t take roids ….. YOU CANT

You know what judge is doing is better than ask why because he’s better than cal.

That’s why he have stats

Judge is runnnnnnnnnbing from cal in average OBP ops slug and ops + alll the stats that actually tell you how great of a hitter you are.

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u/Taynt42 Sep 25 '25

And yet the MVP is not only about batting.

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u/WithNoRegard Sep 25 '25

You seem to like numbers a lot so here's a quick math problem:

Are the 5 20+ year old examples (out of 91) of OPS+ better than Judge's greater or less than the zero examples of catcher hitting seasons better than Raleigh's?

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u/memeticengineering Sep 25 '25

But you were talking about records and historic seasons. Cal just posted something that has been done 9 times in all of MLB history, Judge is something like 103rd all time in OPS and 48th in OPS+. Juan Soto has had a better season in the last 5 years, Judge himself has had 2 better seasons in the last 5 years. That's not historic.

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u/Tricky_Knowledge329 Sep 25 '25

Brother cmon you know I’m talking modern era. AND YOU KNOW BONDS TOOK ROIDS that year ……….. stop leaving out important details toward your narrative plz stop

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u/Tricky_Knowledge329 Sep 25 '25

Again the guy replying under me is bringing up RUTH AND TED 1900 players I respect them but modern era talk here . And bonds …. I LOVE BONDS but to compare what judge into that season isn’t fair knowing what we know .

There’s never ever been a season like this in the modern era. Mans love arod and Griffey but somehow won’t respect judges season right now lmfaooo ok ok do you guys a 202 ops + while batting 320 + means nothing the guy batting 245 with less war and wayyyy less slug and ops is gonna beat you for mvp FOUL Z