Friday, October 13, 2017

Aaron Judge and Jose Altuve go head-to-head in ALCS

 Aaron Judge
Shanna Lockwood/USA TODAY Sports 

Andrew Marchand ESPN Senior Writer:
HOUSTON -- At 6-foot-7 and nearly 300 pounds, it is not easy for Yankees rookie right fielder Aaron Judge to hide, but that is what he was able to do against the Cleveland Indians in the American League Division Series. The fact that the New York Yankees won their ALDS in dramatic fashion allowed for Judge's historically bad hitting performance to be somewhat shielded.

That won't last, especially because much of the focus heading into the American League Championship Series is on the top two American League MVP candidates, Judge and Houston Astros second baseman, Jose Altuve, who at 5-6 is just slightly smaller. Judge is not focusing on any personal battles.

"It is about the Astros versus the Yankees," Judge said...http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33192/aaron-judge

Jose Altuve

 Troy Taormina / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters
 

Altuve, the Houston Astros’s 27-year-old second baseman, is the shortest player in baseball, listed at 5 feet 6 inches and sometimes presumed to be even smaller. He is also the frontrunner for the American League MVP award, fresh off a season in which he won his third AL batting title in four years and led the league in Baseball-Reference’s player value metric, wins above replacement...https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/jose-altuve-baseballs-unlikeliest-superstar/542139/

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