Breaking: Aaron Judge and Aaron Boone dismissed disparaging rumor….
The Yankees’ recent losing streak may be due more to player growth than anything else, according to Judge’s personal hitting instructor.
The New York Yankees are going through an almost unfathomably awful run of ballpark play. They are cutting as a team and have won five of their last twenty games, including three major slides of three or more straight losses.218/.313/.371. They were slashing.256/.334/.440 prior to the slide. In the AL East, New York is now 3.0 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.
It’s difficult to come up with a term that really describes how awful this run of play has been. abysmal? Absurd? A catastrophe on rails? It’s been a fall in comparison to their scorching start to the season, which made the Astros appear to be the favorites to win the American League.
With that have come critics, like as Aaron Judge’s occasional personal hitting coach Richard Schenck, who earlier this week disparaged the Yankees’ offensive developmental capabilities on X (previously Twitter).
Judge responded to Schenck’s remarks by saying:
To be honest, I have nothing to do with it. It’s a different person stating something. I will not speak for anyone else when I comment. .. I have no influence on the actions of others. I have no control over it. Judge stated, “I have nothing for you,” according to Bryan Hoch.
Boone thought the same thing:
“People will say things, and everyone has the right to express their opinions. I understand that people would make crude remarks and the like, especially when you’re going through a difficult time and wearing this outfit.”
Judge, on the other hand, is among the Yankees who have not succumbed to the slump. His OPS since June 13 is 1.079. It was 1.135 before. Juan Soto and young Ben Rice are the only two players with an OPS above.750 during the slump spell.
