Aaron Judge made his return on Tuesday after spending the Yankees’ previous 10 games on the injured list with a right flexor strain. But between that absence and the slow couple of weeks that preceded it, Judge finds himself in an unfamiliar spot in our latest edition of the Hitter Power Rankings: outside the top three.

Judge had led eight of our previous nine rankings this season -- Cal Raleigh led the other, with Judge second. The reigning AL MVP quickly regained his perch that time, and he may well do so again here. But first, he’ll need to show that he is healthy enough to resume the historic mashing he was doing for most of the year. In the meantime, we have a big shakeup at the top.

As always, the Hitter Power Rankings are based on a formula, constructed by MLB.com’s data team

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