If Judge and Trout retired after the 2025 season.....
 

......who would go down in history as the better player?

Trout he did it longer and even with all the injuries still beats Judge in almost every category. IMO the time missed with injuries makes up for the extra overall time playing.

Judge will forever be a Yankee legend but Trout expanded his stardom outside of Anaheim

Judge is doing it now.

Trout who?

both.

[QUOTE=towerymt;20020501]Judge is doing it now.

Trout who?[/QUOTE]

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This is a coin toss for this generation’s Frank Thomasii.

[QUOTE=Nostalgia;20020497]......who would go down in history as the better player?[/QUOTE]

Trout.. and it’s not even close..

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Right now, Trout. In a couple years, Judge.

[QUOTE=REGGIE206;20020531]Trout.. and it’s not even close..

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Judge will get his 3rd MVP and become the 4th player ever with 4 50 homerun seasons.

His % numbers will all be better than Trout's.

Right now it's still Trout. After next season is when it probably swings to Judge if things remain the same.

This is easily Trout, but doesn't quite seem like a fair question given he has a 5 full season head start. (Yea, I realize Trout is only a year older still)

[QUOTE=JustinVerlander07;20020569]This is easily Trout, but doesn't quite seem like a fair question given he has a 5 full season head start. (Yea, I realize Trout is only a year older still)[/QUOTE]

I think if we give Judge 2 more seasons, it would be Judge in a landslide.

There’s a lot of heavy Trout bags in this thread…

judge. better rates and more productive.

Trout if they both retire this year.

Trout has the counting stats, but Judge has the rate stats. I give Judge the slight edge.

If both retired at the end of this season, it's Trout. When it's all said and done, it will be Judge (barring any catastrophic injuries).

Judge will be 34 in April

If he starts to slow down or become injury prone

He might be the most complicated first ballot hof candidate ever

With 1200 hits and 1300 strikeouts. But having 3 MVPs

Hopefully he stays healthy for 5 more years.

[QUOTE=MiamiMarlinsFan;20020576]There’s a lot of heavy Trout bags in this thread…[/QUOTE]

I don't own a single Trout card, yet I don't see a valid arguement in favor of Judge if both careers ended today. The only way someone chooses Judge is if they have strong recency bias and don't actually look at the complete careers of both. As was mentioned earlier, this isn't really a very fair comparison, but if you just look at the two careers objectively, and don't try to project beyond today, it's Trout by a landslide.

[QUOTE=MiamiMarlinsFan;20020576]There’s a lot of heavy Trout bags in this thread…[/QUOTE]

I own a single Mike Trout non base card that is worth somewhere between $40-$80. There's no way you look at the numbers today and say Judge > Trout (and again, that makes sense given Trout started 5 full seasons before Judge did). Also, positional value matters. Trout playing center most of his career until now and Judge mainly right field matters. If Trout continues his downslide and Judge does what he's been doing another couple years perhaps the answer is unanimously different, but today it's a dumb question because Trout is the easy answer.

In history as the better player it is still Mike Trout no doubt all day, however, if the question is a little bit different like who will be more remembered in baseball history the answer is Aaron Judge no doubt all day as he has the Yankees thing going for him, some playoff moments, a mind blowing single season of 62 home runs that will be remembered and so on.

Mike laid low avoided the spotlight and then ended up not even being the most famous person on his own team once Ohtani arrived. Now he's costing the team 40 million a year and leading them in strikeouts and on a path to largely being forgotten other than us few dudes that were actually collecting cards in 2012-2018 when he was a god.

They both stink to high heaven in the postseason though. Judge (58 games, .205 hitter) and Trout an unbelievable 3 games, .083 average.

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Tied, 22-22, with 5 calling it too close to call.

Well, since Trout has more than 2000 plate appearances than Judge, he has an edge on most offensive stats (and awards).

At the end of this season => Trout

In a couple seasons => Judge (assuming he doesn’t decline as rapidly as Trout)