Judge, the giant outfielder who once seemed too big for the majors, calmly swatted his 58th and 59th home runs on Sunday
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Now, you might be wondering why having a superstar who is a pending free agent would be a problem for the Yankees. In their modern prime they have been the biggest and baddest baseball team on the planet, spending freely, raking in massive amounts in the league’s largest market and generally exercising financial muscle that most of their rivals do not possess.
And, kaboom. Judge’s home-run numbers are the most eye-catching part of his season, but he’s leading the American League in almost every offensive category, often with a yawning gap between him and the next-closest player. It’s the kind of year only produced by Hall of Fame players, or players who would have been in the Hall of Fame had their bloodstream not been 50 per cent steroids.
Except they almost certainly should not. Baseball’s weird economics, which suppress the salaries of young players for their first seven seasons, mean that players reach their peak earning years just as they begin to decline. Judge, who won the Rookie of the Year trophy at 25, is an extreme case, primed for his first huge payday when he is about to turn 31, an age when power hitters historically begin to see a drop off that can often be precipitous.
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