Yankees legend Lou Gehrig's start to the 1927 campaign places just below Judge on that same list, and he too proceeded to win MVP that year with a .373 average, 1.240 OPS and 173

Once again, New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge will skip the Home Run Derby this year, he told reporters Thursday. Judge won the Home Run Derby in 2017, his rookie year, and has not participated in it since. "Nope. Same answer," Judge told Newsday when asked about the Home Run Derby on Thursday. "Only if I'm talking about it here [in New York]."

Aaron Judge isn't falling away from the magic number. It's June 7, and the New York Yankees superstar is batting .397. The feeling all along, lying under the surface for baseball fans who may not have even realized they were thinking it, is that eventually, Judge has to drop further away from .400. Doesn't he?