HOUSTON – He is quiet and he is unassuming, he is powerful and he sometimes defies description. He is Aaron Judge, and regardless of what happens Saturday night between the Yankees and the Astros in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, regardless of what else is said about the 2017 Yankees, there is this:
Aaron Judge has made the Yankees the Yankees again.
Because while it is true, the first thing we associate with the Yankees is winning – they do have more championships than any other team in North American professional sports, after all – it has always been something more than that.