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How Aaron Judge Plays Above the Rim

Aaron Judge is Paul Bunyan on the baseball field, Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians. A physical giant, ox-strong, swinging his bat like an ax. The future.

Smash MLB's single-season rookie home run record, as Judge did with 52 in 2017, in, say, Oakland, where Mark McGwire set the old record of 49 in 1987, and you're celebrated. Do it on the game's biggest stage, smack dab in Yankee Stadium, and you're deified.

That part can be dangerous, because when you're the first position player in MLB history to stand 6'7" and weigh 282 pounds (that factoid brought to you by none other than the Elias Sports Bureau, the game's official statistician), you cannot so much as sneeze without causing a seismic reaction.