Aaron Judge is a tremendous enemy of baseballs in the wild, a dinger volcano who demands tribute, and you’re never going to believe this, but in the first round of the 2017 Home Run Derby, he hit a bunch of home runs.
Aaron Judge’s 1st-round home runs were visualized in a chart, and it’s spectacular
It’s like the Sistine Chapel for parabola fetishists.


Thanks to the magic of StatCast, we have an extremely beautiful visualization. Behold!
Or, from another angle:
Judge’s elegant use of all fields is something new to Derby lore, and I’m not sure how to process it. But I urge you to play around with this fun, now-essential tool.












