With the Baltimore Orioles in the Bronx this weekend and Aaron Judge fresh off of hitting his historic 61st home run, it seemed apropos to think back to another Judge dinger, one he hit against Baltimore. It’s one that led me to wonder just how limitless Judge’s power and potential really were.
It’s easy to forget now that Judge’s 2016 cup of coffee with the big club didn’t exactly go all that swimmingly. Notwithstanding his first at-bat, when he hit the latter of back-to-back dingers with Tyler Austin, he struggled at the plate in his first look at major league pitching.