Friday, March 21, 2025

How does Judge's career rank so far based on his age? (very high in OPS+)

I had Stathead call up all the guys with 3,000+ PAs from ages 25-32 and ranked them by OPS+ (Judge played a bit at age 24 but under 100 PAs). A link to the results is below the table along with a link where the cutoff was 2,000.

Judge is 10th. If we had a cutoff of 4,000 PAs, he would be 8th. So an outstanding career so far. The table has the top 25. There were 57 players who had an OPS+ of 150 or higher.

Rk

Player

OPS+

PA

1

Babe Ruth

220

4955

2

Rogers Hornsby

190

5022

3

Ty Cobb

190

4560

4

Ted Williams

190

3824

5

Lou Gehrig

187

5571

6

Mickey Mantle

186

4489

7

Barry Bonds

181

5015

8

Dan Brouthers

178

4204

9

Mike Trout

177

3089

10

Aaron Judge

176

4228

11

Stan Musial

172

5499

12

Jimmie Foxx

171

5206

13

Johnny Mize

170

3099

14

Nap Lajoie

169

4046

15

Albert Pujols

168

5375

16

Roger Connor

168

4257

17

Ed Delahanty

166

4855

18

Honus Wagner

166

4774

19

Dick Allen

166

4255

20

Frank Thomas

166

5147

21

Willie McCovey

166

4696

22

Frank Robinson

166

5005

23

Tris Speaker

164

5016

24

Jeff Bagwell

164

5172

25

Henry Aaron

164

5370

Rankings with a 3,000 PA cutoff.  

Rankings with a 2,000 PA cutoff.

Here are the OPS+ leaders from 2022-24 with 1,000+ PAs

Player

OPS+

PA

Aaron Judge

206

1858

Yordan Alvarez

176

1692

Shohei Ohtani

173

1996

Juan Soto

160

2085

Freddie Freeman

155

2076

Mookie Betts

151

1848

Only players to have at least a 200 OPS+ from ages 30-32 with 1,000+ PAs

Aaron Judge 206
Babe Ruth 203

Cobb is 3rd at 190

Stathead search results on that