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Aaron Judge leads the majors in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS and hits.
He's doing it in an era when the league-wide batting average is just242.
Paul O'Neill , Rod Carew , Luis Arraez and Barry Bonds had the highest averages through 34 team games since 1969 .
Judge has a 1.264 OPS over 1,000 in his first 34 games for the Yankees .
He has a weighted runs created (wRC+) of 270 -- a figure that adjusts for league and home park effects in a given season .
His 218 wRC+ in 2024 ranks seventh all time.
He is making more contact with pitches in the zone than in previous years .
Judge has been a little weaker against breaking balls than fastballs.
Overall, 17.7% of the pitches Judge has seen this year have been 95-plus compared with 19.8% last season .
The Yankees have faced less velocity this season than last year .
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