Yankees’ Aaron Judge Faces Elbow Setback: Can Giancarlo Stanton Step Up or Will Risky Moves Define Their Season?
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Two seasons ago, the Yankees were forced to weather a nearly two-month month stretch without Judge after he tore a ligament in his toe during a freak play at Dodger Stadium. In Judge’s absence, New York’s offense couldn’t replace its biggest pillar, and the club’s 2023 season capsized into irrelevance.
So while losing the best hitter on Earth for any amount of time is an unequivocal bad, the Yankees are much better situated to withstand a Judge-less world this time around. In 2023, the Yankees had a bottom-10 offense in baseball. When Judge went down, it was a carousel of overmatched and over-the-hill fill-ins doing their best. It wasn’t good enough.
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