HOUSTON — He has spent so much of the last two years lurking in the shadows, nursing various injuries, working his way back toward 100 percent health. In so many ways we have been robbed of what should have been two of the most productive years of Aaron Judge’s career, his age-26 and age-27 seasons.
He hit 27 home runs both years. Now, it is tempting to pull a Feller Card here. In his later years, Bob Feller was a regular at baseball shows and autograph shows, and he would sometimes show up in his old Cleveland Indians uniform, and he would always distribute business cards advertising the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter, Iowa (just 17 miles west of Des Moines!