“The problem is they don’t give out Triple Crowns after 58 games. Aaron Judge has already been made into a baseball deity.”
Thrusted onto the scene as one of baseball biggest stars in just in first full season in the big leagues, Ben Maller thinks it’s quite comical that the massive New York media, starving for a poster boy in the post-Derek Jeter era in the Bronx, is trying so hard to anoint the 25-year-old the next Mickey Mantle even though his dominance hasn’t even spanned past June yet.