What used to be one of baseball’s most magical numbers — 61 home runs — now sits buried, eight lines deep, in the Major League Baseball record book.

Now that all 162 regular season games have been played, we can now attach a final stat line to New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's truly historic 2024 campai

And now, it’s the slow wait for the start of what Aaron Judge over the years has called “the real season.” For the Yankees, that begins Saturday at the Stadium against the winner of this week’s best-of-three wild-card series between the Orioles and Royals in Baltimore.

Yankees superstar Aaron Judge fell short of the hallowed 60-home run mark in 2024, as well as his own American League record. Of course, that's not to say it was a disappointing year. Instead, Judge socked a major league-leading 58 home runs,