He beat out second-place finisher Shohei Ohtani and Golden State Warriors’ sharpshooter Stephen Curry. He joins Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Ron Guidry as fellow Yankees to be…
Aaron Judge’s crowded trophy case just got even more cramped.honors, getting a first-team nod on the All-MLB team, grabbing a Silver Slugger award and the Sporting News’ Player of the Year, the larger-than-life figure in the Yankees’ lineup was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year on Friday. He beat out second-place finisher Shohei Ohtani and Golden State Warriors’ sharpshooter Stephen Curry.
In case you missed it, Judge had quite the year. He set the AL record — and by extension, the Yankee record — byand leading the Yankees to a division crown. He joins Roger Maris , Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Ron Guidry as fellow Yankees to be recognized as the AP’s Male Athlete of the Year. Before Ohtani, the last two baseball players to win it were Jose Altuve in 2017 and Madison Bumgarner in 2014. Swimmer“Wow. That’s incredible,” Judge told the AP.
“He’s everything,” Yankee skipper Aaron Boone said. “An amazing two-way player, one of the great players in our sport. He’s an ambassador for the game.”
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