“There’s something delightfully euphemistic about people saying that Aaron Judge is chasing the “Yankee home run record” or “American League home run record” when they really mean the not-credibly-suspected-of-PED-use home run record.” I skip the euphemisms Good luck Mr. Judge and I hope you team loses every game. Forever.

Lindor: 41 fWAR entering age-29 season Bogaerts: 34 fWAR entering age-30 season Correa: 31 fWAR entering age-28 season

Other SS from this crop either got started too late (Swanson), missed too much time (Seager), or both (Story) to keep with those top 3 in counting stats at this point in their careers (though I’d be most bullish on Seager making up ground in his 30s).

I think reasonable minds can differ about which of those two should be MVP but I really don’t see a plausible alternative to either in the AL.

It’s the first time a player will finish a calendar day with a 20+ HR lead since the last day of the 1928 season when Babe Ruth led Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson by 23 homers. @EliasSports

Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior writer for FanGraphs, the author of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame analysis. He founded the Futility Infielder website (2001), was a columnist for Baseball Prospectus (2005-2012) and a contributing writer for Sports Illustrated (2012-2018). He has been a recurring guest on MLB Network and a member of the BBWAA since 2011. Follow him on Twitter @jay_jaffe.

Yikes! Poor Strasburg. The article says his right arm is so painful day to day that he has learned to do routine tasks with his left hand. I hope he doesn’t try to come back…one Dave Dravecky is too many (I know it’s different).