Hey everyone, just so you know, we recorded this episode before Aaron Judge hit his 60th

Homer, because honestly, who can keep pace with the guy, we did anticipate that he might

have more than a mere 59 by the time this podcast was published, however, because he homers

every day, except when the Yankees are off.

Though I wouldn't put even that past him, anyway, what I want to know is that number 60

came on a pitch well within the strike zone from Pirates Reliever Wilkrow, who threw a couple

of quite tasty pitches to Judge, that will be relevant to our banter today, which will

begin now.

Hello and welcome to episode 1905 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ringard.

Ben, how are you?

I'm perplexed by something.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe you can explain this to me, Meg.

So in September, Aaron Judge has a 334WRC plus.

That's not the thing I need you to explain, but that is also pretty inexplicable.

Yeah, don't you just need me to go, wow!

Yeah, the explanation is he hits the ball really hard and he's very good at baseball.

Okay, the inexplicable part is the league average zone rate in September.

So that is the percentage of pitches that are thrown in the strike zone theoretically,

50.5%.

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