Alert: Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, Yankees' Aaron Judge are 1st players picked for MLB All-Star Game, elected as starters by fans
NEW YORK (AP) — Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, Yankees' Aaron Judge are 1st players picked for MLB All-Star Game, elected as starters by fans.
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Yahoo
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- Yahoo
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The right answer is Aaron Judge. But before Yankees fans get annoyed that I was seriously considering Cal Raleigh for first-half AL MVP — and the first half of the schedule did complete this week with every team reaching 81 games — then here is my question: How would you feel if Raleigh were doing this for the Yankees and Judge for the Mariners? In other words, what if the Yankees had a switch-hitting catcher — emphasis on catcher — who was leading the league in homers, and somehow Yankee Stadium was transformed from one of the easiest places to clear a fence to the toughest (hello T-Mobile Park), and the player was an elite defender at the most important position on the field — did I mention he is a catcher? My suspicion is if Raleigh was doing all of that in pinstripes rather than off-the-beaten baseball path in Seattle, you, Yankees fans, would be screaming he, and not Judge, should be the first-half AL MVP. And maybe he is. I just think that no stat or metric completely honors what it means to be able to provide high-end offense with the drudgery of catcher — just consider the bat was supposed to be the carrying tool for both Francisco Alvarez and Austin Wells, and look how they have struggled under the weight of all that a catcher is asked to do.
