Scouting Aaron Judge couldn’t have been all that hard, right? Watch him hit the ball a country mile and say, “Sign here, please.”
Actually it was a lot more complicated than that. And two of the men who helped make Judge a Yankee (along with area scout Troy Afenir and VP of amateur scouting Damon Oppenheimer) are national crosschecker Brian Barber and special assignment Scout Jim Hendry.
As the Yankees approached the 2013 draft, the problem with scouting Judge was obvious. He looked more like someone taken in the NFL or NBA Draft than the MLB Draft.