Despite the evidence presented over the first few weeks of the regular season, Aaron Judge won’t win the Yankees the AL East title by himself.
Not even with the cheat-mode numbers he has put up during the Yankees’ 12-7 start — an OPS of 1.283, which pretty much mirrors the absurd stats Judge delivered over the final five months of 2024 (1.265 OPS).
Judge’s combined 1.272 OPS from last April 27 through this Wednesday dwarfs even Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani’s 1.010 in the same span, which itself is out of a video game.
But even with all that, Judge wasn’t in right field in the top of the ninth inning against the Royals on Wednesday, when Fernando Cruz gave up a screaming line drive to MJ Melendez with Maikel Garcia representing the tying run on second base.
