When you’re the big guy, not just in stature but in skill, the focus never goes off you. Not even for a moment. 

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That’s what it’s like for Aaron Judge, who to many was having the most disappointing postseason anyone’s ever had, at least among those hitting close to .500.

Life isn’t always fair at the top. But Judge has been there almost a decade now, so we assume he’s getting used to it by now.

According to the oft-told story, Judge needed a big moment to validate him among the greatest of the Yankee greats, to move him into the discussion of the best players of the most famous franchise. Never mind that he’s won two MVPs and has a decent chance to make it three (Yankee fans will tell you it should be four), led the league in every rate stat imaginable and set the American League single-season home run record (and clean MLB homer record, too).