{"id":273693,"date":"2025-10-03T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:56:10","slug":"yankees-might-have-an-aaron-judge-playoff-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273693\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees might have an Aaron Judge playoff problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yankees might have an Aaron Judge playoff problem<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s pretty much no disputing that Aaron Judge is one of the greatest right-handed hitters to ever step on a baseball diamond.<\/p>\n

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But there’s also something different about him in the postseason.<\/p>\n

On some nights, it can fly under the radar. Thursday was one of those nights.<\/p>\n

The New York Yankees eliminated the Boston Red Sox behind an exquisite pitching performance from Cam Schlittler.<\/p>\n

But in a winner-take-all game, Judge was 0-for-3.<\/p>\n

He’s a career .212 hitter in the playoffs with a well-below-career-average .768 OPS.<\/p>\n

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That sample size is getting bigger by the game, too. It’s up to 61 games. If Judge was hitting .212 after 61 games of a regular season, it’d feel like something was horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

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Now to be fair to Judge, these games are split apart.<\/p>\n

And to be even more fair, teams chase the best matchups and use their best pitchers as much as humanly possible in the playoffs. A guy like Judge is going to get exactly zero at bats that are even slightly easy in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

But that’s been true for many of the game’s great hitters, and a lot of them are great postseason performers.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, up until this point, that hasn’t been true for Judge.<\/p>\n

His career isn’t over. The book isn’t closed.<\/p>\n

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Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw had a bunch of bad postseason pitching outings in a row before he figured it out.<\/p>\n

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Judge can still figure it out, too.<\/p>\n

The Yankees would have to win 11 more postseason games to win their first World Series since 2009. To do that, they’ll need Judge to figure it out in a hurry.<\/p>\n

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