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What Does Aaron Judge Mean to the Yankees? Everything

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Since he took baseball by storm in 2017 Aaron Judge has been superhuman on the baseball field. There are hundreds of ways that I could prove this by using both fancy and non-fancy statistics, but I would just be stating the obvious. In a world where just about any topic can be divisive, I think we can all agree that there are at most a handful of humans in the history of baseball that could hit a baseball better than Aaron Judge currently does. Judge is only rendered ineffective when he's literally not on the field due to injury. [This is where some people will scream out loud, "But he sucks in the playoffs!" There's some validity to that eloquence, but we're gonna keep the scope of this to the regular season only, for reasons you'll see shortly]. Unfortunately, we've seen a few extended stays on the injured list for Judge over the years and his most recent stint got me thinking: What impact does Judge's absence really have on the Yankees? Do they miss...