After a summer of titanic blasts and hard-to-fathom achievement, the final swing of Aaron Judge’s season was a feeble ground ball back to the box. Ryan Pressley fielded it easily, flipped it to first baseman Yuli Gurriel, and the sweep was complete.It is 4-0 Astros in four October encounters with the Yankees going back to 2015.
If this was his last plate appearance as a Yankee it was a sour period. Even if it is but a comma, Judge’s October is something that will stick in both the craw and the memory of anyone who cares about the Yankees. Starting with Judge himself. The next chapter for Judge begins immediately. All season long he was celebrated for not only placing a bet on himself, but for making that wager seem like the smartest and savviest since Mike McD went all-in on Teddy KGB at the end of “Rounders.
In between, Judge had a season for the ages, a season that stands up to any and all seasons ever put up by any of the deep roster of Yankees icons — put it up there with anything Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig ever did, any season Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle ever had, any numbers Don Mattingly or Alex Rodriguez ever produced.Aaron Judge watch was the Astros celebrate eliminating the Yankees in the ALCS.see alsoAnd now, perhaps the greatest open-air auction in baseball history commences.
For all the issues that go along with it — the likelihood of diminishing returns at the back end of a long contract, the fact that Judge has been, until this season, regularly injury prone — he is the signature Yankee. Signature Yankees just don’t go to San Francisco or Los Angeles. It was surprising when Robinson Cano chose to go to Seattle.
Hope he takes the $ Yankees don’t care about him - it’s a business
Wow! It sounds like sour gripes before the buds are on the vine. A one man show never wins the World Series.
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 for 16 in the playoffs.
Prediction If Judge doesn't return to the Yankees, he will be signed by the Astros
He can finish elsewhere.
This will happen next year as well. Won’t change. Donaldson choking the life out of the luxury tax
He coming back
I think he will but definitely keep Bader!