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Aaron Judge’s forgotten defensive ability

During last year’s postseason, Aaron Judge revealed a skill we hadn’t seen from him yet, a season where he set the rookie single season home run record no less. He could steal home runs. Because of his height, especially somewhere like Yankee Stadium with a short porch in right field, Judge has the ability to merely pluck the ball from over the shallow part of the park. We saw that on display against Francisco Lindor in the ALDS, and that time he pulled the ball right out of the hands of Zack Hample.