Bill de Blasio was re-elected as mayor of New York City last month. However, he’s lucky that New York athletes didn’t run for mayor because he might not have won if they had.
New York Yankees right fielder and 2017 American League Rookie of the Year Aaron Judge received 10 write-in votes in the mayor race. According to Lou DiPietro of the YES Network, the 10 votes put Judge about 760,000 votes shy of de Blasio, but he was the lead vote-getter among Yankees personnel and New York athletes.
Former Yankee captain and current Miami Marlins co-owner Derek Jeter got two votes as did former manager Joe Girardi.