It’s on Austin Wells to make pitchers pay for avoiding Aaron Judge
NY Post
Austin Wells already had plenty on his plate as a catcher before taking on a heavier role when Jose Trevino got injured last month.
But just around the time he began getting everyday starts behind the plate, he was tasked with another challenging responsibility: protecting Aaron Judge.
Two-plus weeks into his new job as the Yankees’ regular cleanup hitter, Wells has hit even better than he had been leading into the jump up the lineup.
But coming off a series in which the Blue Jays regularly took the bat out of Judge’s hands, it will be up to Wells (and Giancarlo Stanton behind him) to make sure it doesn’t happen more regularly by making teams pay for it.
“I think being behind arguably the best hitter of all time already, that puts you in a position to have big at-bats in big situations,” Wells said Tuesday before the Yankees-Angels series opener was postponed by storms in The Bronx. “For me, I welcome that and I look forward to the challenge every chance I get.”
During the Blue Jays series, Judge was intentionally walked four times and walked twice in traditional fashion.
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