Aaron Judge Quotes

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.