<Li> 3 × AL Rookie of the Month (April--June 2017) </Li> <P> Aaron James Judge (born April 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). Judge played college baseball at Fresno State . </P> <P> The Yankees selected Judge in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft . After making his MLB debut in 2016 and hitting a home run in his first career at bat, Judge has had a record - breaking rookie year in 2017 . He was named an All - Star and won the Home Run Derby . He broke the Yankees' record for home runs by a rookie (besting Joe DiMaggio's 29 with 30 before the All - Star break), while also breaking the MLB rookie record of reaching base 164 times before the All - Star break . He won the American League's (AL) Rookie of the Month Awards for April, May, and June 2017, as well as the AL's Player of the Month Award in June . Judge set a new MLB rookie record for home runs, surpassing Mark McGwire's total of 49 . </P> <P> Judge was born and raised in Linden, California and was adopted the day after he was born by Patty and Wayne Judge, who both worked as teachers . When he was 10 years old, his parents told him that he was adopted; he recalls, "I knew I didn't look like them ." He telephones his parents every day . He has an older brother, John, who was also adopted . </P>

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