Judge: Yankees will 'crush' single-season home run record

Aaron Judge believes the New York Yankees will "crush" the single-season team home run record in 2019.

The star slugger is confident the Bronx Bombers can top the 267 homers the squad hit last season if everybody can stay healthy.

"Oh definitely. You get this whole team healthy, we're going to crush the record that we set last year," Judge said, according to Coley Harvey of ESPN. "We've got a good team, a lot of guys that could make a lot of solid contact, and a lot of big boys that when they make contact, man, it goes. We're a team that's primed and ready to do that."

Judge's teammate Brett Gardner agreed with those sentiments after the pair launched two home runs each in Sunday's spring training action.

"We're going to hit more this year," he said.

The Yankees had 12 players hit double-digit homers in 2018 - including six with 20 or more - as the team topped the record of 264 set by the Seattle Mariners in 1997.

Even scarier is the fact New York didn't get the power production it expected from Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, and Gary Sanchez; the trio combined for 83 round-trippers after belting 144 collectively in 2017. Judge was limited to 27 in 112 games and Sanchez only hit 18 in 89 as both dealt with injuries.