Posted by sjpoker on 11/17/2017 11:52:00 AM (view original):
Without Judge the Yankees don't make the playoffs. Without Altuve the Astros still make the playoffs.
Therefore Aaron Judge was more valuable to his team then Altuve was to the Astros.
Therefore Judge was screwed.
Even if we use this absolutely absurd logic, you're just downright wrong.
The best teams to miss the playoffs in the American League had 80 wins. The Yankees could have gone 81-81 and still earned a wildcard spot. That's 10 fewer wins.
The only way your argument holds up is if you think the 2nd-richest franchise in baseball wouldn't have filled right field with somebody who would have kept them within 10 wins of what they had with Judge. Bottom line is, the American League wasn't competitive this year. The only close race late was between the Yankees and Red Sox for the AL East. If the Yankees had won that maybe you could argue that Judge made a significant difference in the Yankees' end-of-season result. But they didn't, even with Judge.