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He was previously a reporter for the Boston Herald, the Houston Chronicle, MassLive.com and MLB.com. He lived the television and radio life at NBC Sports Boston and WEEI. “From a visiting-team perspective, when that comes to town, it’s a major uptick,” Giles said. • With an overall average of 368,000 viewers, YES saw a 27 percent increase from 2021 in New York, the network’s best season since 2011. Over at the YES Network, the regional sports network the Yankees partially own, executives were on pins and needles awaiting Judge news like everyone else — with the added juice of sponsorship money potentially hanging in the balance. Lee Berke, president of consulting firm LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media, recommended putting aside the baseball setting when evaluating Judge.
Then one would need the capability of running a multivariate regression analysis. Every year, Rick Mace puts together the list of baseball games ESPN will broadcast. He’s been working on Sunday Night Baseball for a decade now, through plenty of changes in the sport. Judge’s 62nd home run ball didn’t even come close to the record.
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And just how valuable was Judge in 2022 to the business of baseball? Opinions are mixed as to whether such a number could be accurately calculated. Although it’d be “very complicated,” the head of Columbia University’s sports management program, Scott Rosner, thought it was theoretically doable.
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge, right, gestures to fans after a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in New York. Aaron Judge became the sixth person in MLB history to hit 60 home runs in a single season on Tuesday night. The highest price paid at auction for a baseball is $3 million.
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Sign up to receive our daily Morning Lineup to stay in the know about the latest trending topics around Major League Baseball. Judge hit home run No. 62 in Game 161, a historic milestone for both the Yankees and Major League Baseball. That combination felt irreplaceable to the guy who writes the Yankees’ checks.
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Inside Aaron Judge’s 63rd home run and how Hal Steinbrenner closed the deal
• Judge's 61st home run, to tie Maris, was hit 117.4 mph -- his hardest homer of the season. It's the hardest home run Judge has hit since Sept. 30, 2017, the 52nd and final homer of his AL Rookie of the Year campaign. Thirty-six of Judge's home runs have been "no-doubt" home runs -- that means they would be gone at all 30 MLB ballparks. The hitter with the next-most no-doubter home runs this year is Austin Riley, with 21. • Judge's 62 homers have totaled a distance of 25,520 feet -- nearly five miles.
It was for one hit by Mark McGwire on Sept. 27, 1998, to reach 70 for the season. Comic book creator and artist Todd McFarlane bought the ball. • Ten of 12 Yankees games between those days averaged at least 500,000 total viewers in the New York designated market area , and 11 of 12 had a peak viewership of at least 600,000.
The home run ball was consigned to Goldin in November by Cory Youmans. He was sitting in the front row of section 31 in left field at Globe Life Field on Oct. 4 when Judge led off the second game of a doubleheader between the Yankees and Rangers and connected. — The ball New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit for his American League-record 62nd home run has sold for $1.5 million at auction. The Sept. 25 “Sunday Night Baseball” game drew 2.2 million viewers for ESPN and was the second most-viewed Sunday night game of the season only behind April 10’s Red Sox-Yanks matchup. What impressed Mace was that although the September game was up against the NFL, it still drew the largest “Sunday Night Baseball” audience against football since September 2010. First, one would have to have access to data that teams and broadcast networks don’t publicize, such as sponsorship sales and game-by-game media breakdowns.
“It’s not a number that’s easy to determine out of the overall pot of money,” said Howard Levinson, YES Network’s senior vice president of ad sales. Action Network’s Darren Rovell spoke with Youmans, who said he wasn’t comfortable with a private sale — There were offers up to $3 million before he let Goldin handle the auctioning. The enthusiasm for Judge, combined with statements like that, led to sky-high expectations from the auction house. Judge had the top-selling MLB jersey in his first three seasons and has never been out of the top seven.
Throughout the season, MLB polled fans on the sport’s most exciting player to watch. Shohei Ohtani was the dominant selection early in the season, before Judge vaulted to the top in the second half. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the attorney for the Texas man who caught the ball told the Worldwide Leader he rejected a $3 million offer before going to auction. At the time, he said he wasn't sure what he wanted to do with the ball.
At a high level, what stands out about Judge is that the marketing of baseball just doesn’t usually revolve around a single player. From a secondary angle, regional sports networks can be in an annoying position when the spotlight shines on their team. National partners — like ESPN — want more Yankees content, both during the 2022 season and going forward.
They need him in good health and as an MVP-caliber player at least until his mid-30s, if not beyond. Judge's 62nd home run ball sold for $1.5 million at auction Saturday. The ball is authenticated by MLB and comes with Youmans' letter of provenance, so it is the real deal. His total home run distance is a new record for a single season under Statcast tracking, which began in 2015. He passed teammate Giancarlo Stanton's total distance of 24,641 feet set in 2017, when he hit 59 home runs for the Marlins.
• Judge has homered off 56 different pitchers this season, which is an AL record. He broke Ken Griffey Jr.'s previous mark of 52 in 1998. The all-time record is the 65 different pitchers McGwire homered against in that same iconic '98 season.
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The Yankees then came pouring out of the dugout, jumping in jubilation after Judge hit his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris’ 61-year-old franchise and American League record. Bonds, Sosa, and Mark McGwire have since surpassed Maris, but their links to performance-enhancing drugs have tarnished their legacies to many baseball fans who think Judge’s 62nd home run will be the true all-time single season record. With the home run, Judge set the AL record for home runs in a season, passing Roger Maris. New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hits a solo home run, his 62nd of the season, during the first inning in the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022.
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