As baseball heads into its annual All Star Break, the story in the American League is surrounding Yankees’ rookie Aaron Judge.
Yankees’ rookie Aaron Judge is the biggest story of the season. (Kathy Willens/AP – NJ.com)
After only 328 plate appearances, the rookie outfielder has been worth 5.1 wins (that’s superstar status at the end of the season) while posting a ridiculous wRC+ of 200. Judge has done this by consistently hitting for power this season — his isolated slugging percentage is .368 for the season. The 25-year old is absolutely playing out of his mind this season and it’s likely that his offensive performance is going to regress at some point (currently he’s sporting an unsustainably high BABIP of .419), but we should enjoy his obscene offensive production while it last.
Judge has been lighting the AL on fire this season, which is good…because everyone else this year has been kinda “meh”.
For our AL fWAR All Star roster, the top two first, second, and third basemen, along with the top two shortstops and designated; six outfielders, starting, and relief pitchers made our roster. Also included is a small sample of the players performance during the 2015 season, for batters with more than 150 plate appearances we’re looking at their BA/OBP/SLG; for qualified pitchers — more than 25 innings pitched — it’s their ERA/FIP/xFIP.
POSITION PLAYERS
Player Name
Team
AVG/OBP/SLG
fWAR
CATCHERS
Alex Avila
Detroit Tigers
.315/.431/.586
2.4
Gary Sanchez
New York Yankees
.284/.373/.530
1.9
FIRST BASE
Logan Morrison
Tampa Bay Rays
.251/.358/.558
2.5
Yonder Alonso
Oakland Athletics
.297/.366/.589
2.0
SECOND BASE
Jose Altuve
Houston Astros
.330/.401/.528
3.6
Jed Lowrie
Athletics
.287/.357/.486
2.1
SHORTSTOP
Carlos Correa
Houston Astros
.308/.387/.533
3.1
Xander Bogaerts
Boston Red Sox
..314/.368/.458
2.7
THIRD BASE
Jose Ramierz
Cleveland Indians
.321/.376/.556
3.0
Miguel Sano
Minnesota Twins
.270/.376/.537
2.2
OUTFIELD
Aaron Judge
New York Yankees
.326/.449/.689
5.1
Mike Trout
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
.337/.461/.742
3.3
George Springer
Houston Astros
.289/.367/.581
3.3
Corey Dickerson
Tampa Bay Rays
.326/.369/.570
2.9
Mookie Betts
Boston Red Sox
.277/.353/.487
2.9
Aaron Hicks
New York Yankees
.290/.398/.515
2.7
Designated Hitter
Nelson Cruz
Seattle Mariners
.285/.368/.500
1.3
Shin-Soo Choo
Texas Rangers
.256/.374/.426
1.2
**Corey Dickerson has the highest WAR DH listed on Fangraphs, but since he’s already listed as an OF, we moved to the next player down on the list.
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