Yankees manager Aaron Boone sits Aaron Judge vs. best team in baseball

Yankees Aaron Boone continued his impersonation of an MLB manager with a strange decision to rest his star RF Aaron Judge after just 24 games despite playing the Houston Astros.

A successful baseball manager needs to know when and where his players should start and also when they should sit on the bench. Yankees bubble blowing manager Aaron Boone, with a 9 game win streak on the line, and playing the best team in baseball, the defending World Champion Houston Astros, decided that this is the proper time to give Aaron Judge a full day off.

Aaron Judge is physically fine. I sincerely doubt that the 25-year-old is too tired to play. Why not put him at DH? Sonny Gray, (who had a very good outing going 6 innings allowing 2 runs), was pitching so Austin Romine was catching, which meant Gary Sanchez started at DH.

Was it because Judge had a couple of bad games against the Angels? According to a video per Randy Miller of NJ.com Boone had this to say:

“No, no, no!” Boone said. “No! With our guys, I don’t try to tie one performance to another where this guy is in the lineup or out of the lineup. I did it so much more matchup based. We know who they are. We know how good of players that we believe we have. That usually goes more into it than anything.”

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I watched the video three times and each time it seemed that Aaron Boone became more and more uncomfortable. So did I. Is someone telling Aaron Boone what to do? Somehow, I am sure that Aaron Judge did not feel this was the time or place to take his day off.

A winning streak is very important to the Yankees players and the first rematch with the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last season only a game away from the World Series is even more important.

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The Yankees lost the game with Houston 2-1 and no one will ever know if the Yankees would have won the game with Aaron Judge in the lineup. What I do know is that the Bombers chances are better with him playing with his .317  BA, 7 HR’s, and 18 RBI’s, especially, in a contest that was decided by one run.