NEW YORK — Jim Thome’s 14-year-old son, Landon, has come down to breakfast at the Thome household most mornings this baseball season with a question for his old man, the fearsome Hall of Fame slugger who smacked 612 home runs during his playing career:
“Dad,” Landon Thome says, “did Aaron Judge hit another one?”
It’s an apt question, considering how many homers Judge has hit, and one that delights Thome, who played Major League Baseball for 22 years and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018. “That’s what it’s all about,” says Thome, who is now an analyst for the MLB Network.
