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Yankees' Aaron Judge Has Been Unreal, But the AL MVP Race is Far From Over

If you're expecting to read a case for why Aaron Judge isn't the current frontrunner for the American League MVP, well, sorry. You'll get no such contrarianism from us.

What we will say, though, is that Judge will have to keep doing exactly what he's doing if he wants to keep outrunning a crowded race for the award.

This hasn't been a problem for the New York Yankees outfielder so far in 2022. His 28 home runs entering Wednesday's contest against the Oakland Athletics were already five more than any other player in Major League Baseball, but he went ahead and added his 29th for safe measure:

With 76 games down, the Yankees aren't quite halfway through their 162-game schedule yet.