The Yankees delivered an exciting update yesterday when the team announced that Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton would head to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to continue their rehabs. Stanton has already appeared in games for High-A Tampa, mashing plenty of dingers along the way. Judge will soon follow, and given how guarded the Yanks have been with his recovery, good news means very good news.
First, let’s address the obvious. Getting Stanton and Judge back into the lineup is an obvious boost in terms of run production. After posting a 149 wRC+ last year, Judge looked right on par with that again before suffering an oblique injury, holding a 145 wRC+ through 89 plate appearances.