Entering the offseason, there was always a high likelihood that Aaron Judge was going to be in The Bronx on Thursday afternoon.
It was just a question of whether he was going to be batting in the top or the bottom of the first inning.Whether he was going to be a San Francisco Giant or a New York Yankee.
Aaron Judge will patrol center field at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, facing the team that almost stole him away in the offseason.Among other things, it would have meant facing Gerrit Cole on Thursday instead of playing behind him. Instead, Judge will be back in pinstripes and roaming the outfield at Yankee Stadium — he will play all three outfield spots this season, but likely center field on Thursday — where the roars for him may rival the ones that he heard last season on the way to breaking Roger Maris’ American League home run record.
Rodon and Kahnle will begin the season on the injured list, two of five expected regulars who got hurt during spring training — plus Frankie Montas who underwent shoulder surgery.“We got the players, especially the core group of guys that we have,” Judge said. “You always hope that you can go into spring training with this set group that you kind of imagined throughout the offseason when we grab certain guys or certain guys get called up. But we know that’s not realistic.
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