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New York Mets: Yoenis Cespedes is New York City’s forgotten slugger

Who says the New York Mets can’t hit any home runs? Often ignored, they can hang with their cross-city rivals thanks to one man in particular.

Pound for pound, New York Yankees teammates Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton are two of baseball’s best sluggers. They combined to hit over 100 last year.

The home run hitting abilities of each awarded them the National League MVP (Stanton) and runner-up in the American League voting (Judge). Judge did come away with the Rookie of the Year victory, offering little chance to the rest of the league’s freshmen.