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The Oakland Athletics selected him in the 31st round of the 2010 MLB draft, but he opted to enroll at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) to play for the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Various colleges recruited Judge to play tight end in football, including Notre Dame, Stanford, and UCLA, but he preferred baseball. Judge graduated from Linden High in 2010. In baseball, he was part of the Linden High School team that made the California Interscholastic Federation Division III playoffs. He set a school record for touchdowns (17) in football and led the basketball team in points per game (18.2). He played as a pitcher and first baseman for the baseball team, a wide receiver for the football team, and as a center for the basketball team. Judge, who eventually grew to 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 metres) tall, attended Linden High School, where he was a three-sport star. Growing up, Judge was a San Francisco Giants fan. When he was 10 or 11 years old, his parents told him that he was adopted he recalls, 'I knew I didn't look like them.' He has an older brother, John, who was also adopted. Judge was born in Sacramento, California, and he was adopted the day after he was born by Patty and Wayne Judge, who both worked as teachers in Linden, California. Judge stands 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall and weighs 282 pounds (128 kg), making him one of the largest players in MLB. Judge won the AL Rookie of the Month Awards for April, May, June, and September, as well as the AL's Player of the Month Award for June and September. His rookie record stood for two years, until Pete Alonso hit 53 home runs in 2019. In 2017, he was named an All-Star, won the Home Run Derby (the first MLB rookie to do so), and hit 52 home runs, breaking Mark McGwire's MLB rookie record of 49 and Joe DiMaggio's Yankee full-season rookie record of 29. After making his MLB debut in 2016 and hitting a home run in his first major league at bat, Judge went on to have a record-breaking rookie season. Judge played college baseball for the Fresno State Bulldogs, and the Yankees selected him with the 32nd pick in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft. In 2022, he set the AL record for most home runs in a season, breaking the 61-year-old record held by Roger Maris. Judge was unanimously selected as the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year in 2017 and finished second in voting for the AL Most Valuable Player Award that year.

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Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award (2019)Īaron James Judge (born April 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).August 13, 2016, for the New York Yankees