Aaron Judge’s regular season should earn him a third MVP ( in our opinion ), and he’s hitting .444 with a 1.024 OPS in these playoffs, both tops on the Yankees.

But in October, for baseball’s highest-profile star (non-Ohtani division) and future resident of Monument Park, none of that is enough.

If the Blue Jays win Tuesday night’s Game 3 to complete a sweep of the Division Series, denying Judge a postseason signature moment yet again, the glaring hole in his pinstriped legacy will only grow larger.

Because once the Yankees’ postseason run is finished, so is Judge’s perennial shot at authoring his own epic October . And if it doesn’t happen this year, after he continued his reign as the most feared hitter on the planet for six months, then when?

This is all relative, of cour

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