Aaron Judge has played the field in only 76% of Yankee games in 2022, his walk year. Ohtani Lite?

Yankee record after last night's loss: 70-38=108. Aaron Judge has not played the field in 26 of them: 24%. Judge did not start 8 games and was Designated Hitter (DH) in 18: 8+18=26. Judge seems to be devolving into a weird form of 2021 American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Shohei Ohtani (DH and pitcher) who has played a total of 8 innings, not even games, in the outfield in his entire career.

Aaron Judge has not started 8 of 107 Yankee games in 2022: 7.5%. Roger Maris: 1.8% in 1961 when Yanks played 22 doubleheaders. Saturday, August 6, 2022

Yankee manage Aaron Boone has been protecting 30 year old Aaron Judge, twice by resting Judge before an off day (no Yankee game)...

... 8 games Judge did not start:..

Judge also has started 18 games as DH: 17% of all Yankee games. In one DH game in Baltimore Sunday, July 24, 2022:

Bottom of the 9th, Orioles Batting, Behind 0-6, Yankees' Clarke Schmidt facing 7-8-9
Clarke Schmidt replaces Josh Donaldson (PR) pitching and batting 6th
Aaron Judge moves from DH to CF (team loses DH)

So, did Aaron Boone resting Aaron Judge help the Yankees? Beats me. It's what managers do these days. At least it's what this Yankee manager does. Judge will be a free agent after this 2022 season. Judge turned down a multi-year Yankee offer for a gazillion dollars in order to make even more, possibly with another team. Judge is being paid $19 million for this 2022 season.

That home run Judge hit Monday August 1 was number 43 for this season. Judge has a chance to break the American League and Yankee season home run record of 61 set in 1961 by Roger Maris.

So, it's especially odd that Judge would not start in 7.5% of his team's games. How much did Maris sit in 1961? ...

Maris started 160, so he missed 3: 3/163=0.01840 (1.8%)...

In 1961 Maris played 154 complete games (CG), including 6 inning and 7 inning CG and 13 games that went extra innings, which included two 11, 12, 13, 15.

They weren't supermen, they were baseball players and they played baseball when there was baseball to be played.

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