The race for the American League MVP is reaching its final stages and it is a two-horse race with two of the best individual seasons in the history of MLB: Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels and reigning MVP, and Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, with both being more than deserving winners without detracting from each other’s season. While Ohtani is the ‘everything’, there was a time when Judge was like the Japanese and an even better athlete.
In his senior year of high school in his hometown of Linden, Aaron Judge was not only the best hitter on his team, hitting .500 with 7 home runs and 32 RBIs, but also the best pitcher, with a record of 9 -3, a near-perfect 0.65 ERA with 65 strikeouts.
And not only that, Judge also played basketball and American football: As a basketball player he was the pivot of his team, averaging double-double per game with 18.2 points and 12.8 rebounds, being an All-Star in the state.
As an All-American player, he was a receiver and holds his school record for the most touchdown catches in a season with 17, as well as 54 total and catching for 969 total yards.
Judge was so good at playing football that he was one of the top college prospects in the country at his position, being recruited by such prestigious schools as UCLA, Stanford and Notre Dame. However, the Judge always knew that his passion was playing baseball and he ended up enrolling to play ball at California State University, and as they say, the rest is history.
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Yankees: Aaron Judge was ‘Ohtani’ in high school; also the best playing american football and basketball