00:00It was amazing to see Aaron Judge's first taste of spring training baseball this year result in a multi-homer
00:06game.
00:07And for Judge, it was a straightaway, no doubt, shot to dead center.
00:12And then it was a pitch that was destined for his chest that he somehow flicked inside the left field
00:19foul pole.
00:20He is superhuman.
00:21And I don't want to, like, open the can of worms of how good is he in the pantheon of
00:25all time, Yankees and players in general.
00:27But I just want to open us up to the opportunity to appreciate what this guy does, because this is
00:33not only the Yankee captain.
00:35This is Captain America in a week and a half, two weeks in the World Baseball Classic.
00:38And the fact that he's setting the tone this early for the Yankees in spring, he may put up that
00:44kind of year where he's getting better from his MVP and Roger Maris record-breaking seasons.
00:48I think, you know, barring health, and this isn't even necessarily a comparison, although I know Peter actually put out
00:54a pretty compelling video on our socials about the bonds to judge comparison.
01:00The only reason I'm bringing this up is in the way that we saw bonds progress.
01:05And I know you could say, oh, well, he had some help doing that.
01:06But that aside, bonds got better and better and better and better because he mastered his swing.
01:13And then from that point forward, it was just approach and accumulating knowledge and just understanding how teams are going
01:20and you're going to get pitched to for the rest of your career and just mastering that.
01:24But the thing that I think reminds me so much of bonds with with judge at this point is he's
01:29going to see one to two pitches a game that are hittable and it's gone.
01:33It's automatically gone. And it's the same thing now, like we see him picking up where he left up in
01:37spring training.
01:37This guy has mastered his swing. I think it's very rare that he's going to get out of sorts.
01:42And even when he does, it seems like he can kind of get himself back there.
01:46I know we've seen some postseason stretches, but even that, I think, is like an information period that he's now
01:51built on and not even really going to look back at and really have much of that stretch ever again.
01:55To me, it's bonds like where his approach is just mastered, his swing is mastered, and he is never going
02:01to miss a mistake, essentially.
02:02And I think when you're built like that, and you can also hit some of the tough pitches, too, like
02:06you mentioned, he's going to be set up for these 50-plus homer seasons, barring health year in, year out.
02:11We've got a little under a minute here, so I just want you to answer quick.
02:14But, you know, at the peak of Trout, and really at the peak of Judge, you could teach a college
02:19class on how to get this guy out.
02:21But there was a way. Are we running out of ways to get Aaron Judge out in a baseball game?
02:26Yeah, because I think it's get him to chase, and he's not going to do that.
02:30And then in the zone, he's going to destroy the baseball.
02:33So you either have to get him to whiff three times in the zone or get him to chase, which
02:36he doesn't do.
02:37And pick your poison.
02:39You're either going to walk him or you're going to make one pitch that he ends up leaving the yard
02:42with.
02:42You're either going to walk him or you're going to do that.
02:42He's going to break.
02:42I'll come to see you next time.
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