By now, you’ve probably heard that the Yankees’ Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run Tuesday night, eclipsing the American League single-season record he shared with Roger Maris.
What you haven’t heard is much discussion about performance-enhancing drugs. To be clear, Judge has never been accused of using steroids, never tested positive for a PED and very well could be as clean as a drill sergeant’s boots.
But you’d think that after what baseball went through with the steroid era, after the embarrassment of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, after Barry Bonds and his enormous head, after the congressional hearings, someone might stop and ponder the phenomenon of one person hitting 23 more home runs than his closest competitor in the AL this season.