Aaron Judge's revenge tour vs. former Yankees teammates just hit a wild new level

Every New York Yankees fan tends to shiver when a familiar face shows up on their schedule, whether it's someone who flubbed their chance in the Bronx or succeeded. After all, no one wants to lose ever, but ... it's a level worse losing to Sonny Gray or Frankie Montas. Thankfully, Aaron Judge has made it his personal cause to right several of those wrongs to begin 2025.

As it turns out, the Yankees ambushing Nestor Cortes Jr. may not have been an isolated incident. Judge was part of the four-home-run inning that tainted Cortes' Brewers debut, one of only two starts he made prior to sadly hitting the injured list.

Judge, on a .400-hitting rampage (still!), employed the same strategy to lay waste to three different highly familiar names in the past week of action.

Michael King, matched up with Clarke Schmidt and staked to a 2-0 lead in the wake of the Yankees' worst loss of the season to open the series, got punctured by a Judge home run that put New York on the scoreboard in an eventual dramatic win. Another old friend, Wandy Peralta, ultimately coughed up a flurry of runs to decide that one, too, with Judge receiving an intentional walk in the middle of that mess.

And, to add insult to insult to insult to insult, Judge teed off against JP Sears and Luis Severino this weekend. He homered off Sears, someone who he once treated to a fancy dinner at Don Angie, then crashed the festivities to greet the pitcher's family in person. Note to self: If Aaron Judge ever does that to me, I'll know he's just buttering me up.

New York Yankees Captain Aaron Judge has been ruthless against his former teammates

The Severino shellacking was a perfect chef's kiss for many Yankee fans, but Judge — who came up with Sevy as a Baby Bomber — might've had mixed feelings about the whole affair. Still, Severino (jokingly?) claimed the Yankees only had two good hitters last season while he was with the Mets. Now, one of those "good hitters" is gone, but that didn't stop Judge from inflicting pain upon his stat line (and getting plenty of help from the rest of the lineup, which certain pitchers haven't deemed worth their while).

Sorry, Sevy. Seems like nothing is sacred for the 2025 version of Judge, who'd prefer to be a wrecking ball than a gentleman, no matter who he's staring down.