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A photo of Aaron Judge swinging at a baseball with spectators out of focus in the background.

New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge hit 62 home runs in the 2022 MLB season, setting a record.

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By Darren Incorvaia

Baseball is the best sport in the world for numberphiles. There are so many stats collected that the analysis of them even has its own name: sabermetrics. Like in Moneyball, team managers, coaches and players use these statistics in game strategy, but the mountain of available data can also be put to other uses.