Aaron Judge = MVP (on X)

Paul Semendinger
Sep 29
1 min read

by Paul Semendinger

September 29, 2025

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I am amazed that there is so much talk about the 2025 MVP race. It is clear that Aaron Judge should be (and is) the American League MVP.

Many people are making this case decisively on Twitter (X). I decided to collect some of those tweets here. It would be difficult to read these stats and more and come to a conclusion other than Aaron Judge is the MVP.

Note - I planned for this to run midweek last week, but other articles kept coming in and I had to keep moving this. Some of the tweets below are a week old. That doesn't really change any of the arguments here. Judge's case is rock solid.

Read all of the below and it's virtually impossible to come to any other conclusion than that the award should be Judge's.

21 Comments

yankeerudy

Sep 29

I love that quote about taking 180 OPS points from Judge making him Raleigh.

Mike Whiteman

Sep 29

It’s almost like folks are numb to the great things Judge has done. Just a “ho-him” almost 10 WAR season.

Robert Malchman

Sep 29

Replying to

I remember a quote, but I can't remember whose, and of course I can't find it on google, but it was to the effect of some pitcher saying, "I don't want to win 20 games, because then they'll expect me to do it every year." Here, it's like a Judge 10-WAR season is expected. So we get garbage like, "It's only his third-best WAR season! Why should he get the MVP for that?"

It's almost like some people treat it as the Most Surprisingly Valuable Player award. Hey, for that award, I would vote for Raleigh. Who imagined the guy would hit 60 dingers?

Here's an alternative: If you feel it's not good for Judge to monopolize the MVP award…

Edited

Robert Malchman

Sep 29

When you have 99 SLG points over the HR champ, you're hitting a ton of singles and doubles. Put another way, Judge has 117% of Raleigh's SLG. Every 10 at-bats, Judge has an extra base over Raleigh.

And that's before we consider the 27 more walks Judge has than Raleigh, which don't factor into SLG. But you add that to the 21 more total bases, and that's 48 more bases for Judge or 0.3 more bases per game over 162 games

fantasyfb3313

Sep 30

Replying to

and that total bases total comes in 55 less ABs

OBP

for every 3 times Raleigh is on base, Judge is on base 4 times

Judge has 127% of Raleigh's OBP

the 2 players are literally not comparable, yet there are supposedly smart baseball people who for some reason believe that Raleigh should win or that it is at least a close decision

I think without question the players and especially the pitchers know who the best player is. if you removed NYY and Seattle players from voting, and had a player vote, I believe Judge gets 75% of the vote at the very least and a large percentage of Raleigh voters are catchers

hitters know how IMPOSSIBLE it is…

Edited

Alan B.

Sep 29

The only comment I have to make is when it came out about the Cheating 2017 Astros, and their 2B Jose Altuve took home the MVP over ROY Aaron Judge, when certain voters were asked if they had to revote would they change their vote from Altuve? Not a single one came out at least publicly that said they'd change their vote. Therefore, with the voting today, I am not confident in Judge getting the votes to win the MVP. Just too much anti Yankee sentiment out there, snd it runs as high in both the MLB Office and the MLBPA.

fantasyfb3313

Sep 30

Replying to

I did think Andujar had enough of a case that there should not have been a big surprise if he did win it

if you saw my previous comment to Alan, you know that I see zero problem with Ohtani winning

but

Andujar had 47 doubles and 27 HR, pretty sure 47 doubles was and is the rookie record

Ohtani had 21 doubles and 22 HR

both had 2 triples so XBHs Andujar leads 76 to 45

Miggy had a .297 batting average over 600+ PA

Ohtani was .285

here is something interesting

OPS

Ohtani .925

Andujar .855

if that OPS difference makes Ohtani a slam dunk ROY then imagine what at .180 lead in OPS should do for Judge…

fuster

Sep 29

Aaron Judge completely failed to hit .400

after it seemed that he might.

it was a disaster.

fuster

Sep 30

Replying to

he's an old softee

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