ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Yankees have a lot of very impressive individual stats with a third of the season over.
With 54 games down and 108 to go heading into Wednesday night's game at Angel Stadium, Aaron Judge is batting .395 with 18 homers and 47 RBI in an early run at winning the Triple Crown and becoming the majors' first .400 since Ted Williams in 1941.
It's looking like Judge will make it back-to-back MVPs and three in four years.
And how about Max Fried? The Yankees' $220 million free agent signing is 7-0 with a 1.29 ERA in 11 starts. If any starter can go a whole season without losing a game, it might be Fried this year.
There are so many others piling up big numbers for the Yankees, whose 34-20 record is the third best in the majors and has them in first place by seven games in a bad AL East division in which no other clubs have a winning record.
There's Trent Grisham with 12 homers and Ben Rice with 11. They're both on pace to blow by 30.
Who saw that coming?
One stat that really jumps out can be found in the American League RBI leaders.
This is surprising because Volpe is a .245 hitter who is batting just .238 with runners in scoring position.
"That just shows we're getting a lot of opportunities," Volpe said.
That's a very true statement.
Volpe is piling up RBIs because he's always hitting with ducks on the pond. His 63 RISP at-bats are 15 more than anybody else on the Yankees and 23 more than Judge has.
The night before, Volpe smoked a bases-clearing, three-run double that broke a 1-1 tie in the Yanks' 5-1 series-opening win over the Halos.
"Anthony's been really productive from a run production standpoint, and if you turn around on the field, the run prevention part of things," manager Aaron Boone said. "Huge hit for us (Monday) night. He's walking more. I feel like he's starting to control the strike zone a little bit better in his third year now.
"If you're getting both in that 30-plus RBIs already about a third way through the season from your shortstop, who you rely on in a big way for defense, it's good to see that production. And it doesn't feel like (Volpe) has been on fire by any means."
Volpe has had a good last couple weeks hitting after a slow start, batting .281 with a homer and 11 RBIs in his last 15 games since May 11.
"I think his move is consistently better," Boone said. "I think when he goes through a stretch now where maybe he has a game or two where he's a little bit off mechanically, he knows what he needs to do to get back on track, whereas I feel like there's been times in year one and two where that took longer.
"I think he understands the mechanics of his swing a lot better now and I think he's able to correct from game to game."