Thoughts before the Yankees begin a five-game NL road trip

(Presswire)The Yankees have an off-day today and it’s a good off-day because they won yesterday. It’s always nice to spend an off-day riding the high of a win, especially a come-from-behind win like last night’s. This team sure is fun, isn’t it? Anyway, I have some thoughts on things, so let’s get to ’em.

1. I know we spend a lot of time talking about Aaron Judge, but this can’t be said enough: he looks like a completely different player this season. Two recent at-bats really drove home that point for me. The first was last Friday night, in the ninth inning of that huge comeback win against the Orioles. Starlin Castro had already tied the game when Judge stepped to the plate with two outs…