TAMPA, Fla. (WFAN) — Word travels fast in 2017. Aaron Judge’s home run last Friday went everywhere in a hurry, thanks to social media. And one of the interested — and impressed — parties was Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association.
“Aaron is physically special,” Clark said at Steinbrenner Field on Sunday after he finished briefing the Yankees players as part of the union’s annual spring training tour.
Clark hit 251 big league home runs in his career, many of the tape-measure variety. That doesn’t include the moonshot that blasted a hole in the Tokyo Dome scoreboard during a Yankees exhibition game there in 2004.