Does anyone remember when Judge hit his 50th? Breaking McGwire's rookie home run record?

Of course nobody remembers. Nobody cares about this record.

I had to look it up: "Oh, yeah. McGwire." It's obvious when I looked it up, but I was thinking, like, Mel Ott. Just a guess.


Lupica is embarrassing himself with this stupidity:

"Pete Alonso already made himself one of the great home run stories in baseball history before he broke Aaron Judge’s all-time rookie home run record with No. 53 on Saturday night at Citi Field against the Braves."

You really don't see it?

How zero rookies hit 50 home runs for the first, like, 130 years of major league baseball?

Then two rookies hit 50 home runs in 3 years?

How this rookie record is going to last about 1 season unless they change the ball?

You're lying.

There's no way you don't see it.

You just worship Pete Alonso and his high school coach.

 
"But the narrative is different for him than it was with Judge."

Oh.

The narrative.

The narrative is the screwy aerodynamics of the baseball.


"There were already expectations for Judge by the time he got to Spring Training in 2017, even if nobody had any idea he would hit 52 homers that year."

So?


"No one knew how much game Alonso really had until he got to Spring Training. Then, he started hitting home runs in Florida ... and never stopped."

I find this hard to believe, even for Lupica.

Of course he never stopped. Nobody in MLB stopped.


"When Alonso hit his record-setting, 415-foot shot, it left him with just eight fewer home runs than Roger Maris’ 61 in 1961 and seven fewer than Babe Ruth’s fabled 60."

You can't be serious.

I have to stop reading this.

If you don't largely attribute this to the juiced ball, you are deranged.



You want to talk about baseball history and then you compare Pete Alonso to Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roger Maris, and Babe Ruth?

In a season where two teams hit 300 home runs?


Let me explore a tiny bit of baseball history.

In 1927, Babe Ruth hit 6.5% of MLB's home runs. One man.

Do you know how many Pete Alonso would have had to hit in 2019 to match that percentage? About 450.

Which would be a whole lot for one man to hit in one season. It would be vastly superior to his peers, I can tell you that much.