Big Papi was in the Big Apple on Monday night for a charity event hosted by Yankees ace CC Sabathia. Ortiz couldn’t stop talking about the Babe Ruth-like power of the 6-7, 282-pound Judge, who leads the American League with 18 homers this season.
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Judge has been playing at an “MVP level,” said Ortiz, who bedeviled the Yankees for years as Boston’s DH and spiritual leader. The Bronx Bombers have their newest stud in Judge, who Ortiz described as a “beast.”
Via Dan Martin of the New York Post:
Yankees fans have seen young phenoms come and go. Remember Kevin Maas and Shane Spencer?
But Judge is making believers out of baseball experts.
ESPN’s Buster Olney says Judge, a possible Triple Crown winner, is the “front-runner” for AL MVP after the recent injury to superstar Mike Trout.
