The Bill Parcells quote (“You are what your record says you are”) doesn’t apply.
The sputtering Yankees begin a crucial 10-game stretch with three games against the AL-leading Orioles.It begins Friday night with the start of a three-game set against the first-place Orioles in Baltimore with Cy Young contender Gerrit Cole taking the mound., the Yankees will then return to The Bronx for a seven-game homestand against the team with the second-best record in the league and the reigning World Series champs .
He knows it, too, returning at less than 100 percent health and without a rehab stint because the season could soon slip away, thanks to an offense averaging less than four runs per game without him. It seems impossible for Aaron Judge to match his standard from a record-setting 2022 season, but the Yankees need at least an approximation.Expecting Judge to immediately return to this season’s 1.078 OPS form without taking one game at-bat since June 3 is unreasonable. It also may be the Yankees’ only hope.
In his first 10 games after missing nearly two months because of a fractured wrist in 2018, he hit .206 with no home runs. In 2019, he missed two months with an oblique strain, then hit .281 with two homers and 6 RBIs in his first 10 games back. In 2020, Judge hit .194 with no homers in his first 10 games back from a calf strain. In 2021, he hit .263 with one home run after a stint on the COVID-19 list.
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