Aaron Judge spent his reintroduction to left field Wednesday just watching Gerrit Cole get swings and misses from a different angle.
“Maybe I can talk to the pitchers, ‘Hey, just leave a couple over the middle. Do something for me,’ ” he said with a grin.
But he spent the last few days getting reacquainted with the position in workouts before starting in left for Wednesday’s 4-0 loss to the Cardinals at Steinbrenner Field. Since Saturday, Judge has been doing pregame work in left field, taking fly balls from the machine or a coach hitting with a fungo bat, and then seeing balls off the bat during batting practice.
Manager Aaron Boone said that “in a perfect world,” he hopes to get Stanton somewhere around 50 starts in the outfield this season, assuming he is healthy and makes 130-plus starts overall. “I’d consider it right away, depending on how much we rep it here [in spring training],” Boone said. “Hopefully he can get up to speed rep-wise, because it is something going to the other corner. It’s one thing going to center field, where guys tend to always feel a little more natural.
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