<Li> Most walks in a rookie season (127) </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 . A right - handed batter and thrower, Judge stands 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall and weighs 282 pounds (128 kg), which makes him one of the biggest players in the major leagues . </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 went on to have a record - breaking rookie season in 2017 . He was named an All - Star and won the Home Run Derby, the first rookie to do so . Judge ended the season with 52 home runs, breaking Mark McGwire's MLB rookie record of 49 and the Yankees' full - season rookie record, previously held by Joe DiMaggio with 29 . He also hit 33 home runs at Yankee Stadium, breaking the record of 32 set by Babe Ruth in the Polo Grounds in 1921, and set the record for most walks in a rookie season with 127 . He won the American League's (AL) Rookie of the Month Awards for April, May, June and September, as well as the AL's Player of the Month Award for June and September . Judge was unanimously selected as the AL Rookie of the Year for 2017 and placed second, behind José Altuve, for AL Most Valuable Player . </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 ." Judge identifies as black . He has an older brother, John, who was also adopted . </P>

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