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Can Aaron Judge Hit .400? Aaron Boone’s Not Ruling It Out

Aaron Judge is hitting .427!!!!

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Aaron Judge is doing what only Aaron Judge seems capable of: dominating the game so thoroughly that even .427 doesn’t feel outrageous anymore.

Through the end of April, the Yankees captain leads all of Major League Baseball in batting average, sitting at an eye-popping .427. He also shares the league lead in home runs with 10. And yet, depending on who you ask, including his own manager, Judge hasn’t even hit full stride.

A league above MLB should be invented for Aaron Judge pic.twitter.com/cVoQwkMQLR
— AT (@YankeeWRLD) April 30, 2025

“I’m not being cute or funny: honestly, I don’t think he’s really been that hot yet,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said recently. “When he gets really going, he starts hitting balls in the seats routinely.”

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Judge continued his scorching start on Wednesday night in Baltimore, going 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. However, he was left waiting on deck as the Yankees fell 5-4 to the Orioles, but it did little to dampen what’s shaping into a historic run.

MLB leaders right now:

AVG: Aaron Judge
OBP: Aaron Judge
SLG: Aaron Judge
OPS: Aaron Judge
wOBA: Aaron Judge
xwOBA: Aaron Judge
wRC+: Aaron Judge
OPS+: Aaron Judge
HR: Aaron Judge T-1
RBI: Aaron Judge T-1
fWAR: Aaron Judge
bWAR: Aaron Judge pic.twitter.com/yRnrFoQKVh
— Yankee with no Gleyber (Corey) (@Saquon_Gleyber) April 30, 2025

“He’s like a great three-point shooter at the plate right now. It’s remarkable,” Aaron Boone told MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch. “We’re running out of superlatives or things to say about it. He’s playing a different game.”

“I’ve got a job to do every time I step up to the plate,” Aaron Judge said postgame, downplaying the noise around his numbers. But even he would admit that this version of himself is far removed from the one who stood in the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards nearly a year ago to the day, answering questions about why his batting average had dipped below .200.

That was May 2, 2024. Judge left that clubhouse telling reporters, “I’m going to make a couple of adjustments, and we’ll be right there.” With minor tweaks to his stance and timing, Judge went on to win his second American League MVP Award last season, finishing with a .322 average, 58 home runs, and 144 RBIs. Now, he’s started 2025 even hotter, so hot, in fact, that his manager won’t rule out a legitimate chase at .400.

Can Aaron Judge Really Hit .400?

With Aaron Judge, never say never. It would be beyond stupid to put anything past him, however rare or difficult it may be. Boone agrees.

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“As I always say with him, I’m not gonna put anything past him,” Boone said when asked about the possibility.

The .400 mark is one of the most sacred and elusive numbers in the sport, last achieved in Major League Baseball by Ted Williams in 1941 and in 1943 Josh Gibson in the Negro Leagues. Most modern players won’t even entertain the conversation. But with Judge’s advanced plate discipline, ability to hit to all fields, and power that forces pitchers into the strike zone, the idea no longer feels absurd.

Aaron Judge is a created player. There’s no reason this man should be slashing 417/511/757

I thought Pujols & Miggy were gonna be the 2 best right handed hitters I’ve ever watched in my lifetime but Judge doesn’t even make sense. He’s unbelievable

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— Adam Samuels (@SamuelAdams_12) April 30, 2025

He’s slugging, he’s hitting for average, he’s anchoring the Yankees’ offense, and he might not be done rewriting the expectations for what a hitter can do in today’s game. Moreover, one of Judge’s 11 “should-be” homers this season was erased on a questionable replay review in Tampa Bay. A note on how his numbers could somehow be more impressive.

In truth, we may be witnessing a once-in-a-generation stretch. And we’re running out of ways to describe it.

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Mohsin Baldiwala is a Master’s student in Journalism and freelance content producer who got hooked on baseball through Seinfeld’s hapless George Costanza. The same reason why he’s a Yankees fan. He writes about sports because he believes it can offer a brief escape from the world’s chaos. Even if that means enduring the heartbreak of the 2024 World Series.