Aaron Judge Quotes

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

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.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

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

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 think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

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.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

Sometimes we're going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don't necessarily chase as much out of the zone.

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

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.

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.

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.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

Whoever's hitting in front of you or behind you is going to determine how you get pitched, but there's nothing you can do.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don't know what bowlers see while batting.