A non-insignificant amount of people jumped aboard the Aaron Judge is a bust train last season when the Yankee right fielder failed to impress in his first taste of big league action. The strikeouts piled up and Judge came into spring training needing to force his way onto the Opening Day roster instead of being shipped back to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Judge earned himself the right field starting job and proceeded to take the baseball world by storm. Home run after home run, towering shot after towering shot, Judge’s at-bats became must-see television. His tear before the All-Star break put Mark McGwire’s rookie record in jeopardy.