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Aaron Judge deserves better than the Michael Jordan treatment

Aaron Judge deserves better than the Michael Jordan treatment
sports9/27/2025

I think Aaron Judge is the AL MVP for a second straight year and a third time overall (just for transparency, I have no vote on any BBWAA award this year). Judge has made offensive greatness in an age of pitching dominance so routine that it is now somewhat easy to go — “Oh, there goes another 200-ish OPS-plus season” in how you might have yawned while noticing Jordan averaging 30.

I don’t want to make the Charles Barkley mistake. I don’t want to repeat the Karl Malone error. Michael Jordan won five NBA MVP awards and should have won at least seven. But a Jordan fatigue set in, and voters went looking for someone else. So after... [413 chars]